When life hands you apricots…

By Tien Chiu | Published: June 26, 2010
I went to the farmer’s market this morning, and in a frenzy of overenthusiasm, bought 20 lbs of apricots: In case you’re wondering about the different appearance, the left-hand apricots are Blenheim variety, the right-hand ones Pattersons.  I was going to buy all Pattersons because they have such a wonderful flowery flavor, but the farmer/vendor made [...]
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Of chocolate and compudobbies

By Tien Chiu | Published: June 24, 2010
I’m going to a guildmate’s birthday party tonight, and I agreed to bring chocolates,  so I’ve mixed up a batch of cinnamon-honey truffles.  I’m curious how it will turn out, as I substituted honey for glucose in the recipe.  (Corn syrup would have been better, but I didn’t have any.)  The cinnamon  is from a [...]
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Flying fruitcakes

By Tien Chiu | Published: December 24, 2009
We flew from San Francisco to Washington, DC today.  The flight went smoothly, and I slept through about half the flight, spending the other half knitting the toe of a sock and reading through wedding ceremony suggestions.  Now I’m in Maryland, visiting my dad.  I just finished wrapping Christmas presents for my family! including three [...]
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OK, back to work!

By Tien Chiu | Published: December 1, 2009
Sunday I invited several friends over for a chocolate-packing party.  Six of us took four hours to pack the chocolates into candy cups, the candy cups into boxes, the boxes into postal shipping boxes.  In total there were 70 boxes, but only 56 of them were slated for mailing; the vultures chocolate packing friends took [...]
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Presenting the 2009 fall collection

By Tien Chiu | Published: November 29, 2009
For your viewing pleasure: I still have a lot of prep work to do before the packing crew arrives, so I won’t write more right now – gotta run and get these inserts printed!!
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