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I love food, programming, and useless trivia. Often I'll lose myself down a rabbit hole. Or an experiment that ended in disappointment. Let's document this so I can pretend I got smarter everyday.

Recipes

I like food. I like cooking, baking and messing up. Every time I do, I learn something new and interesting.

Apple Pull-Apart Bread

1 minute read

Pull-apart bread is a filled, enriched bread. It’s in the same family of bakes as cinnamon rolls and monkey-bread. It’s “pull-apart” much like monkey bread b...

Banana Bread

less than 1 minute read

This recipe is adapted from Bon Appetit.

Banh Bo

less than 1 minute read

This recipe is adapted from RunAwayRice. The main change is the simplification of steps (mix all ingredients together) and reducing water ratio.

Banh Tet Chuoi

1 minute read

This recipe and technique is adapted from RunAwayRice. I’ve tweaked some of the recipe to my liking.

Bánh Xèo

less than 1 minute read

Bánh xèo is a vietnamese dish that is similar to crepes or dosa. The grocery store sells mixes but it’s actually a simple mix: rice flour, salt, and tumeric.

BBQ Spice Rub

less than 1 minute read

This recipe is Meathead’s World Famous Memphis Dust Rub but converted to weights and scaled down.

Biang Biang Mian

less than 1 minute read

This is adapted from Chinese Cooking Demystified.

Chimchurri

less than 1 minute read

I used this recipe from Simply Recipes to get inspired. But this sauce doesn’t require a recipe, it’s more of a general idea for an herb sauce. Feel free to ...

Chocolate Depression Cake

less than 1 minute read

This recipe is adapted from Budget Bytes. It’s a quickbread-esque cake that comes together quickly. Serve with a dusting of powder sugar (after cooled) or ma...

Chocolate Genoise Cake

3 minute read

I used Joy of Baking recipe. The recipe is designed for 9” round cake pan.

Cinnamon Rolls

1 minute read

Recipe I use the dough from King Arthur Flour. It uses the tangzhong method, which is a roux that’s made with 10% of the flour. This helps to keep the final...

Copycat Kodiak Cakes

1 minute read

Kodiak Cakes are a higher protein pancake mix. They’re very tasty. Let’s see if we can make a pre-made protein pancake mix.

Cream Biscuits

1 minute read

Cream biscuits are a simple biscuit recipe. It only requires flour, salt, baking powder, and heavy cream. It’s essentially a 1:1 flour to cream recipe.

Dutch Baby Pancakes

less than 1 minute read

Dutch baby pancakes are really quick and easy to pull off. Consider them if you have a fresh fruit you want to serve it with.

English Muffins

less than 1 minute read

I adapted this recipe from Serious Eats. It’s a no-knead, slack bread dough.

French Onion Soup

less than 1 minute read

French onion soup is real easy if you have pre-made caramelized onions and a flavourful broth. If you don’t have a broth, it can probably be substituted with...

Grits

less than 1 minute read

Grits are very thirsty grains. This recipe will give a thick texture, one that will solidify into a gel block once refrigerated.

Hot Dog Buns

1 minute read

This recipe is adapted from foodwishes recipe.

Instant Pot Oatmeal

less than 1 minute read

Pressure cooking oatmeal is a pretty good way to cook it. It’s hands-off and the extended cooking time breaks it down into very creamy product. As with all t...

Lemon Curd Bar

less than 1 minute read

This recipe is adapted from Serious Eats but using the lemon curd recipe from Joy of Baking.

Fresh Pasta

1 minute read

I’ve been making fresh pasta, now that I’ve bought the KitchenAid attachment. It’s not very difficult to start making pasta. I even got very decent results f...

Pan Pizza

1 minute read

This recipe is adapted from SeriousEats. The sourdough techniques are adapted from Breadtopia.

Pie Dough

1 minute read

I use BraveTart’s pie dough recipe, which is a flaky pastry as opposed to crumbly. It requires no extra equipment: pastry blender or food processor.

Pork Ragu

less than 1 minute read

This recipe is adapted from Spoon Fork Bacon. It is adapted for pressure cooking.

Prime Rib

less than 1 minute read

I followed Serious Eats recipe for instructions.

Queso Blanco Dip

1 minute read

This is based on the queso dip on foodwishes. I opted to skip the tomatoes and also used fresh jalapeños instead of canned chilies.

Ramen Noodles

1 minute read

I used both SeriousEats and Alex as resources for technique and recipe.

Roti/Tortilla

2 minute read

Recently I discovered that roti was the same flatbread as flour tortillas:

Scottish Pie

1 minute read

I found two recipes that caught my eye and tried to incorporate the elements from both: BigOven and King Arthur Flour.

Self-Rising Flour

less than 1 minute read

Self-rising flour is flour that is mixed with salt and baking powder. Because the ratio of leavening and salt is pretty consistent across many quick bread ba...

Sourdough Discard Pancake

less than 1 minute read

This recipe was adapted from What’s Cooking America. I’ve converted the units to weights and scaled it to a single serving.

Sticky Rice (Xoi)

less than 1 minute read

The xoi recipe is based off of Da Nang Cuisine.

Chocolate Swiss Roll

2 minute read

I used Sally’s Baking recipe but didn’t like the texture. It was a sticky top, which can be caused by:

Tamales

1 minute read

This recipe is for the masa dough. I’ve adapted the recipe from this video on the Simply Mama Cooks channel and the instructions for using banana leaf from a...

Thai Cabbage Stir Fried With Fish Sauce

1 minute read

This dish is a simple, rustic Thai dish. I like it because it only requires simple ingredients that are both staples and non-perishable. This allows me to co...

Udon Noodles

1 minute read

I followed this recipe from Ginger and Scotch.

White Sandwich Bread

1 minute read

This recipe is adapted from King Arthur Flour. I corroborated the technique and ingredients along with a similar recipe from Ethan Chelbowski.

Xoi Man

less than 1 minute read

I adapted this recipe from RunAwayRice and Vicky Pham.