Here’s an idea to use up summer fruits. Light, pretty, slightly intoxicating as well, a choice to have when you don’t have time to make an elaborate desserts. The choice of using white wine, sweet wine, or sparkling wine is really up to you. Even you can use sparkling juice to make it non-alcoholic if [...]
When the weather was predicted to be super hot late last week, I quietly rejoiced because it’s been cool ever since I was back in town. It’s like waiting for the summer to begin, my friends told me that I didn’t miss much in July anyway. August is supposed to be very nice in Oregon, [...]
I really shouldn’t post an apple cake when it’s not in season anymore. Sure, you could always eat apples all-year round nowadays; most of the apples come from growers in Washington states, which is close enough to Oregon that I could say it’s coming from local–meaning Northwest area. But these photos have been sitting in [...]
Today I got back from the beach, it’s always good to walk in to my own home. It’s really home sweet home. My family loved the time we spent at the beach, the location of where we stayed was perfect. Siletz Bay is a quiet place to have a weekend getaway that my husband said [...]
About
Hello! If you just stumble here by accident, let me introduce myself once more. I am a mother to an 8-year old son (and going!) and a wife of an undisclosed age husband, and I have a passion to cook, bake, and eat a variety of food. I didn’t start cooking or baking until I got married when I suddenly had the craving to create dishes that my mom made or foods we ate as a family when I was growing up. And having a family of my own means a lot to me, I thrive to make food we eat as a family as healthy, fun, comforting, yet at the same time as diverse as possible .
Lucky for me, I have a wonderful set of parents who introduced me to exciting world of food from my early childhood years. Traditions and adventures in food are what make me passionate about it . My cooking isn’t fancy or too fussy, rather it’s something familiar that my family would enjoy from time to time; and I try to incorporate local and seasonal products/harvest as often as possible. I believe in cooking with the season, it’s something almost required nowadays. I hope to share a little bit with you as I take notes and write what I like to make and create at home.
My husband and I originally came from Indonesia, and we are both of Chinese descents. Right now we’re residing in the lovely and wet state of Oregon in the U.S. in a wonderful city called West Linn. I’ve been living in the US for half of my life now and I continue to discover many great opportunities that I officially call West Linn my hometown now.
This blog is a continuation of my old food blog, which is also called notes from my food diary, but is hosted on a different server. This will be my new home, a home that I hope will be as comfortable as the old one. I also keep my other food blog, which has mostly Indonesian recipes and is written in Bahasa Indonesia, which is named Dapur Ngebul Terus. It translates roughly to “a kitchen that never ceases burning,” and I occasionally update that blog.
In addition to writing my blog, I occasionally write recipes and do food photography for magazine which occupies me from time to time. Enjoy your time here and contact me at: eliza.adam@comcast.net if you have any questions!
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I am Eliza, a Chinese-Indonesian born living in Pacific Northwest for the last fifteen years. This blog is a medium for me to express my creativity through food and photography. I am delighted in simple things in life so you will not see any pretentiousness in what I write here. As of for now, this is my new place to write; my old blog is at http://fooddiary.blogsome.com. Because I couldn't transfer all my old posts here, I still keep my old blog running so you may see what I've written so far.
My passion is in baking, whether it is Western-or Asian-style baking, I love them all. While baking doesn't always happen all the time, cooking is a must for me so what I cook is occasionally posted here too. I'm completely self-taught in both baking and cooking, everything you see here is all homemade.
Enjoy your time here, I'm glad you've come and visited my site. 
