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We had something of a work BarBQ so everyone was supposed to bring something. I used this occasion to break my five year baking hiatus and make another unique cake. This time I decided on a chocolate raspberry layer cake. It turned out OK, but I can do better, I think next time I’ll work [...]

Barbecue season is coming to an end. It is currently windy and rainy here in Deep Bay. Yesterday however, the weather was well enough to cook a pork roast like I’ve been planing. I’ve cooked several beef roasts and chickens on the rotisserie in our BarBQ, but since I had plenty of pork rib rub [...]

I’ve done a lot of BarBQ’ing in my time. Just the other day I had to cook forty five hamburgers for a party my mom threw. When you start cooking more meat than you can fit on a grill at one time it ceases to be a hobby and becomes a job. At least it [...]

Although not the most electrifyingly original posting title, I’m running with it. I’ve written before how people actually read the crap I write, no matter how trivial or dubious, especially the dubious… Now people have expectations, they are actually encouraging me to blog about events that they were present to observe. I’m not sure of [...]

So as part of our visit to the temple fair Chen Xi and her friend and I went for hotpot. It wasn’t the best restaurant and it was in the basement so it smelled odd the whole time. I told Chen to order whatever she wanted, because she reads Chinese a lot better than me [...]