Category: The Slow Home Kitchen

  • Imperfect Spring Macarons

    When I was young, spring inspired nothing but “meh” for me.  Too much rain. Mud. It was still often chilly.  Summer break still too far from the horizon.  Something prevented me from seeing the emerging symphony of colors. First, the quiet yet hopeful entrance of the crocus and snow drops. Then the plucks of yellows…

  • Yuenyeung: Cantonese Coffee/Tea

    Hong Kong style coffee / tea. “Part coffee, part tea, and definitely a product of colonization.“ It all started in the South China Sea. My life that is. At least that’s how the story goes.  A typhoon of epic proportions, all flags raised, water flooding the hospital floor, and the wail of a newborn baby.…