Someone told my mom that when they were in Kunming visiting us, they should try the hot pot (h uǒ guō, 火锅 ) with mushrooms (mó gu, 蘑菇 ), b...

So, I've told you just how crazy I am about good caramel. Well I was eating a spoonful of this amazing sauce and noticing that the jar...

I absolutely love really good, homemade caramel. Next to chocolate, it is probably my favorite flavor sweet; although really good coffee is...

I was having trouble thinking of things to make Andrew for his birthday, but I thought he would like some new things for bath time. So when ...

While my parents were here, we took them out for some of our favorite Chinese food: jiǎo zi ( 饺子) and bāo zi ( 包子 ). Jiǎo zi is usually tra...

I realize this is a little late for anyone to be making advent calendars this year, but I made mine a couple days late, and we've been e...

I really like caramel corn, but I am really horrible at baking it. Somehow I always managed to burn at least part of the batch. I am not rea...

When we moved around the world by airplane, we decided not to pack non-essentials, like our Christmas decorations. So this year, I have been...

I'll write more in depth later about some of the things we did, but for now here is a lot of random fun things the grandparents and gra...

One of my favorite holiday traditions is cutting out sugar cookies with family. I can remember making cookies and gingerbread houses with m...