Posts Tagged ‘chocolate’

Caffetteria Octavia

Last week I went to my dad’s cousin’s coffee place in Tacoma. It is called Caffetteria Octavia. We call her Auntie Cookie or Cookie, but her name is Octavia.The place was painted blue and white, which reminded me of Greece, but it seemed to be more of an Italian style sort of Café, [...]


Another attempt at buying a Curry bun at a chinese pastry shop in San Francisco. Not so great.

Okay, these candies, which are called banana choco, are like M&Ms except the shell tastes like bananas and are shaped like bananas. I’ve been trying to look for these whenever I go to an asian market to no [...]


I made some curry tarts the other day. I need to fix my recipe for my curry filling though. It was a mixture of curry paste, coconut milk, beef, carrots, peas and raisins. I added a little bit of corn starch to thicken it. I refrigerated afterwards so that it would harden and then [...]


I might have put too much cocoa this time, since I barely tasted the raspberry…but maybe it was intended to be that way. This time I added the 1/2 cup of cocoa!! Here is the link to the previous post and recipe: http://hyouryuusha.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/chewy-chocolate-raspberry-cookies-1/


Chewy Chocolate Raspberry Cookies Attempt #1

I got the recipe for these cookies from the book Veganomicon: The ultimate vegan cookbook by Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero. You can buy the book on Amazon at this link:
http://www.amazon.com/Veganomicon-Ultimate-Isa-Chandra-Moskowitz/dp/156924264X
The cookie is indeed chewy but I can barely taste the chocolate. I [...]