panda bread photoz

Sorry for my lack of activity and visits for the past few days. My in-laws are here and we have been traveling around a lot. We will be heading to Cornwall next week, so here's my last recipe before I leave - a really cute and delicious Panda bread! Saw this over at Not quite Nigella and couldn't resist baking this. The red blobs on top were supposed to form a heart shape, but due to my lack of such skills, it looks like a floating ugly ribbon.

panda bread
panda bread
panda bread

Take, for instance, my dad. Towering at 6 feet and two inches above ground, he’s quite the human skyscraper. But he’s also quite the gentle giant; the guy couldn’t hurt a fly. He’s as laid back as one of those reclining massage chairs in Brookstone, as confrontation-avoidant as a sloth, and yet he approaches the stratosphere in which Yao Ming’s head resides.

In fact, it’s my mom - in all her 5-foot-seven-inch glory – who’s the fiesty one.

Speaking of gentle giants, I will never forget having done a project on giant pandas in seventh grade. The delicate manner and personality of this large creature has ever since fascinated me. They’re so large, yet peaceful, and somehow manage to eat a massive and primarily vegetarian diet of bamboo (imagine Fiber One granola bars times 100…yikes).

And for whatever reason, I’m feeling nostalgic. I’ve had pandas on the brain. So what better time than the present to make panda bread?!