Neecha's Blog

A friend gave me a simple recipe to make Thai shortbread cookies. I asked her a couple follow-up questions and made my first batch. It was an easy success.  Then, I attempted to bake the notoriously complicated coconut cookies called “kanom ping.” With each tweak of the recipe, I got closer and closer to understanding why each ingredient […]

Two trees of the same evergreen species were planted on the same day, only a few feet apart. One continued to thrive, while the other gradually shed all of its leaves. We discussed uprooting the leafless tree and replacing it with a new one. But those who had experience with plants and trees said, “Wait. […]