Month: November 2021

Bottarga/Karasumi/Wuyuzi, Butter, and Crackers

Bottarga/Karasumi/Wuyuzi, Butter, and Crackers

This is less of a “recipe” and more of a discovered-a-traditional-way-of-eating-something-that-blew-my-mind. I always have bottarga/karasumi/wuyuzi which is the cured roe of mullet (a specialty of both Italy and Taiwan) in my fridge at any given time—it satisfies my cravings for something salty, briney, and full 

Home Made Dried Bamboo Shoots

Home Made Dried Bamboo Shoots

This actually isn’t my recipe (nor much of a recipe at all, more of a narrated process)—it’s my mom’s and it’s definitely not from around these parts, but from Costa Rica! Speaking of that gorgeous Central American country that my parents fell in love with