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Brown butter honey financiers

I don’t really like buying people gifts for religious holidays, or any other holidays that seem to come with an expectation of spending money on people (Valentine’s Day, anyone?) I never know what will make a good gift, and I always end up second-guessing my choices once I HAVE bought something.

However, my good friend Yvette [...]

Job interview today

Wish me luck, internet!

banana pudding.

Vanilla bean wafers. Homemade. But from a box will do just fine; I was making this banana pudding as a birthday present and I wanted it to be the best banana pudding this person would ever eat. In their life. I want my friends to think of me fondly.

Dulce de leche. Also homemade. If you’re [...]

Costco, I think I might love you

though it makes me feel the sort of creeping guilt that eating at Chubby’s does. As much as I try to buy my food from the farmers’ market and the beast that is Whole Foods, there’s something indescribably appealing about Costco. Maybe it’s because I grew up in the Caribbean, where stores like this weren’t [...]

A decade in baking

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Click on pictures for dates/locations; click again for fullsize images. I’m no professional photographer, so they’re not stellar photographs. No pictures from 2000-2002 because I didn’t have a digital camera yet.

I didn’t really start baking until 2002. In 2002 [...]