Ube Coconut Cream Pie 2.0
Last year I started experimenting with Filipino flavors in my favorite American desserts. I created a solid Ube Coconut Cream Pie, but I wanted to make it better. I loved the layer of soft yellow of the coconut cream layered with a muted purple of the ube layer, but it wasn’t the signature purple that Filipinos so often associate with the ube yam.
Sunday Funday
Happy Sunday! Today is the first day the sun has come out this week. Getting cozy is the key to surviving these gray cloudy winter days. But when that sun comes out, I want to peel myself off of the sofa and unearth myself for the layers.
A Portrait of a Southern Filipina
I’m heading home for the holidays and every time I return to the state I spent my formative years, I feel tense. It doesn’t help that on the drive down to the South, I’m confronted with the occasional Confederate flag.
A Work at the Café Look
Jerry Seinfeld has a bit about people who work in cafés on his Netflix show, Comedian in Cars Getting Coffee. I am that person he is making fun of. I like to work in a café even though I have an office/studio at home.
A Woman’s Choice
Just weeks before Roe v. Wade was overturned, I was watching the Seinfeld episode where Elaine dates this great couch-moving guy and is devasted to learn that he doesn’t support abortion.
Grief & Jokes
I find myself in a period where death seems to gravitate to me. And not in a close encounter with the loss of my life, but as an invitation to finally properly grieve.
Takeaways: Timothée Chalamet’s Historic Vogue
Timothée Chalamet is the first guy to grace the cover of British Vogue so of course I need to have this issue in my collection. And I need this win because I couldn’t get my hands on the Philippines Vogue maiden voyage issue last month.