Bibim guksu (비빔국수).
Yay, today I have a recipe to share that I’ve been itching to post! I’ve been trying to stagger my posts for these six weeks since I’m bound to run out of things to say sooner or later, without my...
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It’s almost Thanksgiving! So this week I thought I’d post on what seems to be the Thanksgiving vegetable of the year. If last week was about bucking trends (or being unable to participate), this week...
View ArticleFarro & asparagus salad with sesame-miso dressing.
After such a long and lingering winter this year, it feels like this late, coy spring is hurtling into summer faster than I can keep up with. One moment it was snowing in April, a perpetual winter, a...
View ArticleMooncakes!
For as long as I can remember, the Mid-Autumn Festival has been one of my favorite holidays. It means it’s time for the best dessert known to me –- mooncakes. I am obsessed with mooncakes. Dense and...
View ArticleKorean soy-braised tofu (dubu jorim) // a guest post for With Food + Love.
We’re back! As of an hour ago, Bowl #2 and I are back in our Brooklyn nook, a little tanner, a lot rounder, kind of sleepy, and trying to remember what it’s like to be hungry. Before I go nap off our...
View Article(Vegan) Bangkok peanut ice cream.
It always surprises me around this time of year that summer hasn’t technically ended. Less so when I hear about sweltering heat in LA or abiding humidity in Florida, but at least around these parts,...
View ArticleCarrot cake horchata (& regular horchata too)
Black walnut scoop and spoon: Polder’s Old World Market; vanilla extract: Oh, Ladycakes; ceramics: Speck & Stone, The Fortynine Studio, Akiko Graham via The-Commons; tea towel: Fog Linen. So I’m...
View ArticleHerbed focaccia & pimento romesco.
Hi friends! How was your weekend? We spent a fun one down in North Carolina at the wedding of one of Bowl #2’s college friends. This might just be me and the fact that I haven’t gone to that many yet,...
View ArticleMango pomelo sago, with haupia.
I’ve written a lot about how much I love the food in Hong Kong. I’ll probably write more even after this. I’m a food-oriented person to begin with (I know, shocker) and the places I’ve been and the...
View ArticleBlood orange hibiscus spritzers.
Thank you to Sanpellegrino for sponsoring this post and providing the products used in this recipe! All statements and opinions are solely my own. It’s been hot again this week! I love it. Just as...
View ArticlePeppermint mochi
Oh man, it’s been not-enough-hours-in-the-day days around here lately. Most of the time it is safe to ignore me when I say that because I spend about half my waking hours huffing to B2 about the...
View ArticleBibim guksu (비빔국수).
Yay, today I have a recipe to share that I’ve been itching to post! I’ve been trying to stagger my posts for these six weeks since I’m bound to run out of things to say sooner or later, without my...
View ArticleChickpea alfredo with watercress and chives
The thing about alfredo that plagues me is the same thing that might be said about cacio e pepe, or macaroni & cheese, or carbonara — they’re dishes that I adore with all my soul, all cheesy,...
View ArticleJasmine-honeydew sorbet // a Cuisinart giveaway!
Dear diary. Dear everyone. On Sunday, I had my very first cup of coffee in four months. !!! To be fair, I think it was about two tablespoons of coffee in a cup of milk and a boatload of sugar, so...
View ArticleCucumber & chamoe melon salad
As some of you might know, especially if you’re as avid of a reader of her blog as I am, the wonderful Lindsey Love behind Dolly and Oatmeal is expecting a baby boy any day now! Since the first time I...
View ArticleMacau-style almond cookies
The day we visited Macau was a rainy one. We splashed around from Senado Square to the Ruins of St. Paul, hunted down Margaret’s Cafe e Nata for caramelized, blistered Portuguese egg tarts only to...
View Articlefarro & asparagus salad with sesame-miso dressing
After such a long and lingering winter this year, it feels like this late, coy spring is hurtling into summer faster than I can keep up with. One moment it was snowing in April, a perpetual winter, a...
View Articlepho noodle salad
We are in the midst of a thoroughly January state of affairs: We got home on New Year’s Eve from our trip to see B2’s parents in Honolulu, where I was lazier, more relaxed, and more rested than a...
View Articlehetty’s chili oat crisp
I have a dark secret. The idea of “chili crisp” is one that I’ve always loved in my head, and wanted to love in practice, but every one that I have tried—while delicious—never quite lived up to what I...
View Articlerose & lychee snowskin mooncakes
I hadn’t intended to post a recipe for Mid-Autumn Festival this year, but these rose and lychee snowskin mooncakes were such a hit with our little family that I thought I’d share them here with you,...
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