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University Anomalies: Baking Pilgrimages

April 24th, 2008  |  by Athena  |  published in Baking, East, Eastern Sweets, West, Western Sweets

University eats up your soul one way or another: it either swamps you socially, overwhelms you academically, or amplifies your isolation as you trek to and from school back home. Thankfully, there are people who actively resist it and take a few plunges into the insanity of cooking amid the frenzy of the semester’s end.

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Spring Morsels amid Torrential Snow

April 24th, 2008  |  by Athena  |  published in Baking, East, Eastern Sweets, West, Western Sweets

I can’t take credit for this one: a friend of mine equally obsessed with food had made it after braving one of the worst snow storms in the year to get the ingredients. I had made shortbread cookies and ameretti, and he chose the lighter and more Asian influenced compliment.

 

 
??????????shiratama cream anmitsu
 
Apples, pears, agar agar [...]

Cinnamon Rice Pudding

November 6th, 2007  |  by Athena  |  published in Vegetarian & Vegan, West, Western Sweets

1.5 cups of milk (leave out about 1/4 in another saucepan)
1/8 cup of Japanese congee rice (turns into about 1/2 after being cooked)
2 tbsp cinnamon
~3 tbsp white sugar
1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
Lemon Zest
1/2 medium-big apple
1 tsp corn starch
1 egg yolk
1) Milk in saucepan and simmer in low heat until bubbles start to form. Add in the [...]

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