i hope you eat good food, grow beautiful things, and have more love than you know what to do with.
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 …
I had some leftover eggplant from making tempura and I haven’t roasted anything in my woodstove recently (which is pretty much roaring 24/7), so I decided to do a roasted eggplant dip. If you don’t have a wood stove to impart the delicious smokey flavor–a …
If someone were to ask me what I would eat as my last meal, beef carpaccio would be a contender. It’s no secret that I love eating meat and seafood as raw as possible, and beef carpaccio, if offered on the menu, is usually my …
I adore steak as rare as possible–call me a carnivore but it’s one of my favorite things to eat. Today’s lunch was a treat because I feel I’ve been neglecting myself in the day to day, always focused on the kids or the husband, making …
I’ve had the idea for a shoyu radish based sauce for a while but it took a few tries to get it right–I waited until I perfected it before breaking open my package of frozen sea scallops from ALDI. I imagine it would go just …
The base of this delicious (albeit not entirely healthy) meal is just 4 things–rice, soy sauce, butter, and egg–cheese is optional. All you need is a microwave and voila! Savory, rich, umami-filled deliciousness. You can add toppings to it like I did in the picture, …