i hope you eat good food, grow beautiful things, and have more love than you know what to do with.
I’m currently reveling in the hosta shoots that are coming up–another two weeks and they’ll be too tough and bitter to eat and then I’ll have to wait until the flower buds come in. Right now they’re deliciously tender and mild, perfect for skewering and …
It’s spring and my hostas are starting to come up. This means hosta shoots galore. With a flavor and texture like artichokes, they are absolutely delicious as tempura, which is what I made today for lunch. You might feel weird eating something you’d thought of …
If you don’t like natto, you could most likely skip this post, but if you do, then this wouldn’t be too out of your depth. This is something out of my childhood and my ancestral province of Sze Chuan. I used black soybeans but traditionally, …
There is an answer to a question that I had been asking myself for the better part of this week: Can I make… Pizza taiyaki? The answer is, apparently, yes. Yes I can. I was baking bread today and figured I could take some of …
This is a simple lunch or dinner you could make that reheats well as leftovers for lunch the next day! I like this dish with thinly sliced pork belly, but if you can’t get that, thinly sliced pork loins work too. You can top it …
What is the most dangerous thing you bought for your kitchen this year? For me, it’s my taiyaki pan. It’s clearly one of the most dangerous things in my arsenal because of all the insane things I could make with it. Here’s a recipe for …
I was browsing around H-Plaza (a Korean home goods strip mall) in Great Neck today and came across this adorable taiyaki pan. I loved taiyaki as a kid, especially the custard cream ones, so of course I snatched it up and ferreted it home so …
I made this with hairy bittercress but you could potentially do it with a lot of different mild flavored greens (spinach, shepherd’s purse, edible chrysanthemum, goosefoot, stinging nettle). My particular version only has 3 main ingredients–egg, shiitake mushroom, and the greens, but other versions can include …
I rarely go to the Asian supermarket because I’m so far away from any (which has resulted in me making a lot of things at home) but when I do go, I like to pamper myself a bit. I bought this beautifully fresh and insanely …
This is an easy sweets recipe from my childhood in Taiwan–Bing Tang Hu Lu. Of the memories that I could see in my mind’s eye, my dad coming home with a skewer of hawberry tang hu lu sticks is one of the most vivid of …