I really wish my camera was working (and not an idiot, lol), because my halfway-homemade steamed pork ginger dumplings worked out to be cute and delicious! Here’s my method (hehe, I love that term – I saw it in a 1912 cookbook!): 1 pack of store-bought wonton wrappers 1.5 lb of ground [...]
My mom and her new hubby took me out for an early birthday lunch (my birthday is on Tuesday), and we headed up to Bethany instead of straying too far. They surprised me by not going to Toot-Toot (which is awful, by the way – I’m not really a buffet [...]
I can’t believe I’m going to be passing on Halloween. We’ll hand out candy, obviously, but we don’t have near enough time to even carve Pumpkin Chan. Thank you Mom, The Boy and Hubby for sucking up all of our time – appreciate it! For your viewing pleasure HL isn’t gone [...]
Well the move’s not going well, but we’re almost all settled in to the new place and are trying to get our home straightened out. It’s such a chore to deal with people using a kitchen you use when you know they don’t wash their hands and then go around [...]
A simple recipe today for a fake Chashu Ramen you can make when you’ve got almost nothing in the house, like we do. It’s simple, it’s tasty and it goes a little something like this: 3 oz of uncooked ramen (for the love of Thor, not the freeze-dried kind, try for [...]
Well my camera’s not working, and even when it was I couldn’t figure out how to control the blasted thing which meant fuzzy pictures on a good day, badly lit ones on a bad. Half of the photos here are from a mobile phone, which was the only way to [...]













