Adapted from another one of the discovered trove of Chinese recipes, I kind of threw this one together from a couple of different sources. I tinkered with some of the quantities on the ingredients, because parts of it seemed far out of proportion to what else was up there. Nonetheless, I ended up with a surprisingly tasty result -- pleasantly ( Read more... )

Not much going on the past week -- between work and hobbies I haven't made the time to cook all that much that's new and interesting. Weekends, however, are when I have time to actually experiment a bit more. I'd snagged a bunch of cookie recipes and printed them out Friday at work, and decided to start experimenting with at least a few yesterday ( Read more... )

Last Monday, I'd tried out a recipe for big soft ginger cookies on AllRecipes.com. They turned out alright, but not quite as good as I'd hoped -- they were actually a bit softer than I would've preferred, and not quite as gingery. I modified the recipe, and I came up with ( Crisp Ginger Cookies. )