I made mooncakes for the first time yesterday, I wanted to be ready to make them for the Mid-Autumn Festival this year. I’ve been buying them for a long time and decided to finally make them myself.

They’re not as difficult as I expected, actually. Since the cakes are molded there’s some nuance to getting the dough the right thickness. Making them at home gives an incredible variety of options for fillings; I did purple sweet potato, cheesecake, and matcha.

I like to eat cucumber on spreads.

I’ve been making this cucumber salad a lot recently. It’s a good summer dish.

Ingredients: Cucumber Celery Pickled Red Onions (done with apple cider vinegar, garlic, cardamom pod, coriander seed, cumin seed, black peppercorn) Garlic/Rosemary infused Olive Oil Sunflower seeds Fresh cracked black pepper

The star of my previous week (from Wed to Tue) was the green lasagna with bolognese and bechamel sauces. It took a lot of time to prepare (homemade dough), but the folks here devoured it amazingly fast. They also really liked the entrevero.

Today I’ve prepared some deep-fried pork - basically karaage with pork shank instead of chicken, it turned out rather good. And Sunday I’m going to buy roti chicken because I gotta prepare coxinha in the Monday, I like to use the leftover roti chicken breast for that.

I just made a huge pot of chorizo cheese dip yesterday for our “dinner club” we host once a month. I also made tacos and guacamole but I only took a pic of the queso. It was very good and we sent home a bunch with everyone too. I made it with white American cheese.

I’m planning on smoking some ribs tomorrow for the 4th. Gonna be real good lol