Photography by Chia Chong
Recognizing you are experiencing a special moment in your life is the second gift.
My formative years were made up of blueberry pie. Each summer Mom would drag my sister and me to the blueberry farm where we’d sit on buckets and encourage plump, steel-blueberries from their perch. “Try not to get the stems,” Mom would instruct. “Or the green berries. Or the ones that have a hint of red—they’re too bitter. They’ll ruin the pie.” In between her cautionary tales, she’s slip into a quiet meditation, working methodically through the rows.
Salt, sugar, time and constant temperature are the four key things needed when wet curing bacon. There are many different schools on the brines salt to sugar ratios. I am of the school that your brine should be sweeter rather than saltier.
Photography by Chia Chong Words and Styling by Libbie Summers Chia: The Moon Cake Festival is coming up, let’s do moon cakes! Libbie: A cake inspired by the moon? Chia: […]