After making the glutinous rice balls with strawberry syrup, I kept the excess syrup in the fridge because I planned on making the dessert again. I will but I’ll have to make a new batch of strawberry syrup again. The excess I kept in the fridge went into something else — into sweet and sour sauce, believe it or not.
Strawberry jam in sweet and sour sauce
Posted on July 31, 2009 · 10 Comments
Composition and angle in photography
Posted on July 31, 2009 · 15 Comments
Just before Sam started college, I bought her two photography books (okay, that’s in addition to all the other photography books I’d been buying her for the past two years). One of them is… Ummm, this is the part where I stood up and started hunting for the book which I was sure I left ... (more)
Sweet & sour fish
Posted on July 31, 2009 · 70 Comments
This is an updated version of a recipe originally published on April 27, 2003. This was also my Feast Asia column on May 20, 2009. As common as it may be, the curious thing about sweet and sour sauce is just how many versions there are. I remember my mother (who wasn’t a good cook ... (more)
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