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Six Months

Jul 15 by Anita 23 Comments

Fair warning: this post is not about food. If you’re not into reading about another mom gushing over her baby, I promise my next post is dessert-related. However, I’ve been lucky enough to share some of the important events in my life on this site with you, my lovely readers, so I hope you enjoy […]...

Filed Under: Personal Tagged With: baby

Happy Mother’s Day, Mom

May 12 by Anita 4 Comments

Happy Mother’s Day to all you moms out there! This post doesn’t have any recipes – I just really wanted to write something for Mother’s Day. So if you feel like seeing some baby pictures of me, read on…...

Filed Under: Personal Tagged With: baby, mom, mother's day

A Red Egg and Ginger (Dessert) Party

May 2 by Anita 16 Comments

Success! Last weekend we threw a red egg and ginger party for Isabelle! This is a Chinese tradition where the new baby is officially introduced to relatives and family friends, and the baby’s name is revealed. Historically the red egg and ginger party was held when the baby was one month old, as high infant […]...

Filed Under: Cakes, Personal, Recipes Tagged With: baby, chocolate, cupcake, party, passionfruit, red egg and ginger

Introducing Isabelle

Jan 28 by Anita 47 Comments

Hello. We’re so happy to announce the arrival of Isabelle. She was born on January 15, at 12:57 in the morning, weighing 6 lb 1 oz. My OB was out of town over the weekend and told me, “I want to deliver your baby. Try to hold on until I get back on the 13th.” […]...

Filed Under: Personal Tagged With: baby, life

1 + 1 =

Sep 10 by Anita 34 Comments

Things have slowed down here a bit here lately on the site. The reasons are myriad: summer vacation distractions, working on sated magazine issue #2, but really there’s one main reason I haven’t been able to show up as often as I like. I’ll let Snickers help me make the announcement:...

Filed Under: Cookies, Personal, Recipes Tagged With: baby, blitz puff, life, palmiers, pastry, raspberry


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Anita Chu, also known as pastrygirl, is a baker, writer, and photographer with a passion for pastry. She trained at Tante Marie's Cooking School and is the author of Field Guide to Cookies, Field Guide to Candy, and Lollipop Love. Anita lives in San Francisco with her husband, baby girl, and rescue cockapoo Snickerdoodle. More about pastrygirl

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