Lisa is… back?

I’m thinking about getting back into blogging, but I don’t want to make promises I can’t keep. Anyway, I tried a new style today. I hope it looks OK. Let me know what you think!  Hoping to bake far more often from now on. Recipes at the bottom of the post!

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The Recipes

1. Chocolate Cupcakes
2. Peanut butter frosting
3. Salted caramel frosting <– ah! I just remembered that the person who recommended this recipe gave the following suggestions

*Double* the caramel (first 4 ingredients), *halve* the butter (6 Tbs), and sugar to taste. I use more like 3/4 cup or even less of the sugar.

I’m changing my opinion and will make the recipe again with these additions!

Senior Trippin’

So, we have an unofficial tradition at my school where graduated seniors go on a week long senior trip to Koh Samui, Thailand. Koh Samui is a tropical island that’s only a night-train away from my home city, Bangkok. It’s also a place that allows you to wake up to sights like this…

…and witness sights like this…

Here’s a little shout out to my friends I senior tripped with:

Tara, Prin, Kam, Howard, Rose, Ronnie, Jack, Teh, Suguru, Ani, Dong and Toy — thank you all for an amazing trip! Keep in touch and best of luck.

Here are some photos of the food I made (and ate!) during the trip.

ผัดไทย [Pad Thai]

Lime Pudding Cake

Crêpe Suzette – the vanilla ice cream is melting on the hot crêpe

Cheesy Home Fries

ยำมาม่า [Yum Mama] – it’s like a spicy Thai ramen salad

Caramel Custard/ Flan

Hi!

It has been an unforgivably long time since my last blog post on my previous food blog, http://lisa-is-hungry.blogspot.com. I think I stopped blogging because I felt a sense of pressure and/or obligation to blog a new recipe each week, which made it less fun. However, I’ve just graduated high school and I have an entire summer free to blog/eat/bake/do-whatever-the-hell-I-want. I hope to update this blog with new recipes and maybe some snippets of my own life.

I’d first like to make a few resolutions for myself as I start this blog:

1. Each recipe will receive a 100% honest review
2. I won’t put pressure on myself to blog regularly
3. I’ll spend time doing what I love the most. This means, if I don’t enjoy the writing aspect of blogging, I might spend more time taking photos of food instead.
4. I’ll spend less time fretting over formatting and grammar, and more time enjoying myself doing what I love to do best — bake!

Food blogging has been such a rewarding experience — it has helped me create a portfolio of my own cooking adventures, be part of an amazing online culinary community and try new recipes. I’m so glad to be back!

These are some of my favorite shots from my old blog:

Chiffon Cupcakes - just looking at the swirls of frosting makes me nostalgic :’)

Peanut Butter Granola Bites - one of the few in-action shots I’ve taken

Birthday Brownies - no longer my go-to brownie recipe but still delicious

Carrot Cupcakes - these cupcakes were frosted with the best cream cheese frosting ever! Both the cake and frosting recipe were definite keepers.

So, while I have indeed been out of blogging for almost a year, I certainly haven’t stopped baking. Some of the things I’ve baked recently and managed to snap some photos of are…

Soft Chocolate Cake – I hope to make a grand two-layer version of this soon!

Sugar Cookies – I thought the smiley was cute. To be honest though, I’d take a chocolate chip cookie over these anyway. They looked pretty but tasted like… sugar cookie.

Jacques Torres’ Chocolate Chip Cookies – these were so good! They used obscene amounts of chocolate though.