Recipe: Lemon Gingerbread Sandwich Cookies

Welcome back! This year’s edition of gingerbread house making went much much better than last year’s. I’ve included some pictures to #humblebrag. (It’s still super simple, but I’m proud nonetheless.) But, this post actually isn’t about the house, but rather the extra cookie dough! Last year, I made sandwich cookies with the extra dough (really as just a way to get the massive amounts of extra gingerbread out of my apartment - but they seemed to actually go over really well!). Here’s a review of my gingerbread recipe (details on my gingerbread house post). If you want to just jump straight to the cookie sandwich part, go to step 7 (where we start cutting circles).

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Recipe: Gingerbread House

Please don’t let my house’s lack of structural integrity dissuade you from making this easy and delicious gingerbread recipe! We had a wonderful time decorating what we called “The House after the Kansas City Blizzard 2018”. (The Blizzard was super cool by the way! My first Blizzard!)

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DCA Lunar New Year 2018 - Day 1 + Pictures

We stuffed our faces and shared 12 different festival food items: (1) Kimchi Bokkeumbap - Korean Vegetable & Kimchi Fried Rice, (2) Yachae Mandu - Korean Steamed Vegetable Dumpling with Sesame Garlic Soy Sauce, (3) Yang Gaeng - Korean Sweet Red Bean and Raspberry Jelly, (4) Banana Ooyu -Korean Banana Milk, (5) Xiao Long Bao - Chinese Pork Soup Dumplings with Black Vinegar and Ginger, (6) Sanbeiji - Chinese Three Cup Chicken, (7) Dan Ta - Chinese Egg Tart Dessert, (8) Baixiangguo Lucha - Chinese Passion Fruit Green Iced Tea with Lychee Popping Pearls, (9) Zhurou Bao - Chinese Steamed Bao filled with Pork with Sweet Chili Dipping Sauce, (10) Banh Chung - Vietnamese Sticky Rice Cake with Pork, (11) Chao Tom - Vietnamese Sugar Cane Shrimp Skewer with sweet and sour sauce, (12) Banh Khoai Lang Tim - Purple Sweet Potato Macaron.

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DCA Festival of Holidays 2017 - Day 3 + Pictures

That night, we stuffed our faces and shared 8 different festival food items. Starting from first to last: (1) Nashville Hot Fried Turkey with Dill Pickles, (2) Ghirardelli White Hot Chocolate with House-made Cinnamon Marshmallows, (3) Braised Pork Belly Adobo with Garlic Fried Rice, (4) Seared Salmon Filet with Lemon Caper Sauce, (5) Green Bean and Mushroom Casserole with Crispy Onions, (6) Chicken Liver Pate on Toast with Cherry Jam and Pistachios, (7) Milk Chocolate-Candy Cane Pot de Creme, and (8) Hot Buttered Rum with Cinnamon Stick.

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Re-Imagined Thanksgiving Leftovers

We will be troopers and eat the leftovers like the people -with no more freezer space- that we are. Here are some of the concoctions that were created to fool our minds and bellies that we were eating new stuff.

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Post Thanksgiving Feast 2017

I decided to cook a second Thanksgiving day feast. There is no reason for me to do this, except for the fact that I want to have Thanksgiving leftovers forever. Also, on a deeper note, I grew up in a small family - where Thanksgiving was only a 2-4 person affair, but my dad would cook for an army anyways. So, in honor of my dad and family, here's a summary of my gluttunous Post Thanksgiving meal.

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DCA Festival of Holidays 2017 - Day 2 + Pictures

Today, I shared 4 different festival food items with my boyfriend. And by shared, I mean, I ate most of it - but he loves me, so it's acceptable. Starting from first to last: (1) Roasted Turkey Slider with Cranberry Sauce, (2) Ghirardelli White Hot Chocolate with House-made Cinnamon Marshmallows, (3) Macaroni and Cheese with Cornbread Crumbles, and (4) Warm Polenta and Chilled Crab Salad.

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DCA Festival of Holidays 2017 - Day 1 + Pictures

In total, today, I shared 7 different festival food items with my boyfriend. Starting from first to last: (1) Braised Pork Belly Adobo with Garlic Fried Rice, (2) Grilled Chicken Sausage with Red Beans and Rice, (3) Baked Cheesy Scalloped Potatoes, (4) Chana Masala with Grilled Garlic Naan, (5) Beef Corn Tamale a la Plancha with Spicy Rojo Sauce, (6) Nashville Hot Fried Turkey with Dill Pickles, and (7) Chorizo Queso Fundido with House-made Tortilla Chips. For further pictures/reviews, click through the slideshow...

Disney California Adventure Festival of Holidays 2017 - Food and Prices

For those of you out there that don't know what the festival of holidays is, I'll give you a quick low down on the whole shebang. At Disney's California Adventure Park, there is an annual celebration (this year from November 11th to January 7th) that combines a food festival, live entertainment, and holiday cheer (including Kwanzaa, Christmas, Hanukkah, etc.) - all for the low price of admission and inexpensive bits of cuisine (see sarcasm here and pricing below). Still, I adore it - the feeling of joy, community, and curiosity is unrivaled - but maybe I just hold food in high esteem...