just too darn cute. i saw this in the soompi kpop forums in the food section.

from this topic http://www.soompi.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=192157, which has a whole lot more pictures of these cookies!



japanese cookies

「Maid in Tokyo MAID COOKIE Milk & Maple」 メイドイン東京メイドクッキー

from this site: http://www.animate.co.jp/cookie/index.html

Menu For Hope III

a positive light for this holiday season and the end of the year, menu for hope iii hosted by christine at chez pim has finally reached its end...raising over $50 K for the UN World Food Programme! that's awesome. last year i read $17 K was donated to UNICEF and the year before for UNICEF's Tsunami Relief. THIS time the donations quadrupled! thank you so much for the joy you bring to the people who need the help.

being late in the game for this year's menu for hope, i had wished to participate in the drawings, but i hope to try for the next one. i will donate though to the cause.

The Good Home Cookbook and Old School Memories!

got my copy of the good home cookbook!

looking inside it... this is a definitely a user-friendly cookbook! with straight-forward directions and no fancy jargon! :) i look forward to using the recipes in this!

my mom visited today and was sooo excited about learning that there is a bakery in japantown that has her beloved blum's coffee crunch cake...yasukochi's sweet stop! blum's was a san franciscan standard where a lot of my mom's generation had fond memories. Fortunately, I was able to find several recipes for the coffee crunch cake and there is also a cookbook! :)

i made banana bread and now it is allllll gone. i ate most of it. :P

http://www.leitesculinaria.com/recipes/cookbook/banana_bread.html

this banana bread rocks!