It’s February 28, 2021, the sun is shining, trees are blossoming, my space heater is turned off for once, and my mental health seems to have improved by leaps and bounds since a certain someone was abruptly stopped from tweeting grammatically suspect insurrection-inciting invective. I love it. As it is a new year filled with…
Unmotivated – Taiwanese Rice Balls (飯糰）
It took a measure of herculean willpower to sit myself down and write this. It’s been almost two months since I made these rice balls and took pictures. Each time I’ve tried to sit down and work on this blog post since, I’ve given up to watch TV or scroll aimlessly through Instagram instead. Let’s…
2020 – Seared Scallops with Garlic Butter Mushrooms
I started writing a blog post in early March I think. My first post of 2020. I discovered one of my keyboard keys was acting up and took my laptop to the Apple store at our local mall to get it fixed. The store was swarming with people, as usual. On the way out I…
Winter! – Spicy Sausage Soup
Honestly, I don’t love soup. I mean…it’s alright. But I’ll choose a solid food option over soup any day and everyday. I’ll even choose dry noodles over soup noodles. Don’t you feel hungry soon after having an entire meal of soup? I always go to bed stomach rumbling, bemoaning the fact that I chose to…
Braces – Cheese Grits with Bacon, Mushrooms, and Peas
When my mother informed me that I would be getting braces I, bucktoothed 12 year old with nary a straight tooth in my mouth, declared that my teeth were just fine as they were. My upper and lower jaws stacked perfectly on top of each other – that incisor jutting out like a narwhal’s tusk…
Burnout – Banana Pudding in Jars
This week, I finally got my hands on a cookbook I’d been lusting after for months – A Common Table. It was everything I hoped it would be and more – an intimate picture of the modern Asian American family through a loving hodgepodge of cuisines and flavors. The author, Cynthia Chen McTernan, is a…
2019 – Meatballs in Sherry Tomato Cream Sauce
Somehow, it’s already March. As one gets older, time seems to flow faster. More aggressively. And this past week, it’s really been beating me over the head. I don’t remember Daylight Savings ever clobbering me like this before. The night of the time change I dove into bed a little after midnight, completely oblivious to…
Great Resolutions – Apple Honey Challah
I put off writing this blog post for months. Not for lack of inspiration, really. Mostly because this recipe is long and complicated and every time I think about sitting down to write it out I suddenly have many other pressing things to do. Tonight I’m putting all those urgent matters aside. The thick layer…
Dog Days of Autumn – Apple Pie
There is only one member in our little family of three who enjoys apples. No one loves the sprawling apple tree in the backyard more than our Tofu boy. Each morning he makes a mad dash to its trunk to bark furiously at any squirrels who have the audacity to encroach on his backyard. He…
Raspberry Mango Trifle with Passionfruit Curd
PSA: If you would like to view pictures of the cutest puppy of all time, scroll straight to the bottom. Then scroll back up for my glorious iPhone food photos. It feels as though summer is waning. The food world is trumpeting late summer produce, the mornings and nights grow cooler, and back to school…
Happy 4th – Cheddar-Stuffed Guacamole Burgers
It is mere coincidence that the day I sit down to dust the cobwebs off my food blog also happens to be the day of our glorious American independence. It is also serendipitous happenstance that the subject of today’s post is burgers, the most American of American foods. There are many things I could say…
Practice Makes Perfect – Eggs Benedict Doughnuts
There’s something masochistic about watching videos of young music prodigies on YouTube to wile away my precious time and make myself feel awful about my thoroughly average musical abilities. It hurts. But I keep doing it. In recent months I’ve tried dusting off my bow and revisiting the tried and true favorites whose fingerings and…
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