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Food is not my life but it makes me feel alive. I was born in Fujian, in southeast China, and somehow got dragged onto a plane to New York at the turn of my teenage years. (Thanks mom!) I inhaled 3 plates of roast pork and cabbage on rice after sneaking my way out of summer tutoring school (I'm Asian) during lunchtime to gorge on Indian Mee Goreng and Indian pancakes when I was in junior high, so there is no doubt that I LOVE to eat. Cooking, on the other hand, is a recent obsession. I generally do not rely on recipes except for baking because I feel constrained by the scientific preciseness of most recipes. I like to improvise. The lingering taste of a sweet and spicy lamb tagine from a recent restaurant meal prompts me to turn on my stove. The smell of sweet cardamom and rose water gracefully peeking their way out of an Indian bakery seduces me to invite them to my kitchen. Ok, enough about me, let's cook, eat, and share, which is what food is all about. |
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Notes Lovin’ My RootsFujianese Sweet Mashed Taro
1 Christmas, 2 New Year’s, and 1,224 hours of procrastination later, I am back. I got dangerously comfortable with not updating the blog. The holidays were a ready excuse but the real reason is that I was afraid to write, afraid of unable to write an interesting post. I know it sounds silly but this procrastinating perfectionist ghost of mine has always haunted me. Luckily, somewhere along reading other food blogs and feeling lazy and unproductive I decided it was time to return to the blog. So what if it’s not perfect. It’s a learning process, right?
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