Pumpkin Applesauce Muffins

Seeing as how I have so much pumpkin now, I’ve stockpiled a bunch of different recipes to use it up. It’s kinda awesome having your own pumpkin puree instead of using the canned variety (hooray for saving monies).

The original recipe called for carrot puree, or butternut squash puree, but I don’t see how pumpkin …

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Pumpkin Puree

The pumpkin water after the baking tasted a whole lot like this Chinese papaya dessert soup I was once forced to try (I say forced only because I hate papaya). I decided to taste the water since dumping it out seemed rather wasteful, and the unintentional pumpkin variety actually tastes pretty decent. :O

I think …

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Pumpkin Oatmeal

I was slightly disheartened throughout the week whilst scouring food blogs and Google to find out the difference between “carving pumpkins” and “sugar pumpkins,” but I figured it wouldn’t hurt to try making food with it anyway. I don’t think I’ve ever even had straight pumpkin before (pumpkin pies, pumpkin pie milkshakes, pumpkin turkey chili…but …

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Mango Lassi

I’m somewhat of a mango fiend. During the first summer that I was back from medical school, I consumed 12 mangoes in a single day, on top of my regular meals. This was a major cause for concern with my parents, because they [somewhat logically] immediately assumed that I’d been starving all throughout …

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蛋撻 (Egg Tarts)

Egg Tart from Macau

Earlier last year, a friend of mine was feeling pretty down, so I promised to make some 蛋撻 for him to cheer him up. Another friend of mine has been like a super-cool older brother to me since I first got accepted into Davis. Through him, I got everything from dinner to tours of the …

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