i hope you eat good food, grow beautiful things, and have more love than you know what to do with.
If you find yourself with an abundance of leftover, semi-stale shokupan and wondering what to do with it, I highly recommend an Italian bread salad. This east meets west fusion recipe is a perfect breakfast if you crack an egg over it, or for a …
I love scrapple, which is made from the leftover “scraps” of pork which often means the headmeat and organs. I first had it a few years ago, during a trip to Atlantic City, where it caught my eye on an unassuming diner breakfast menu. I …
I’m going to preface this by saying that unless you have a lot of time and nothing else to do, don’t do this. You can easily make a deconstructed one where you just pile the tebasaki (Japanese style fried chicken wings) high with melted cheese, …
I make no apologies for this monstrosity, since in the words of my husband, “It’s glorious.” East meets West in this dish, which is a re-imagining of a meal my sister and I would make during middle and high school when we got home after …
Another recipe out of my childhood, this is one of my (and my dad’s) favorite dishes. My mom told me when she and my dad first married, she knew how much he liked steamed egg, but because of the lack of the internet (recipes were …
When we were young, every winter my dad would get tickets to the annual Feast With Famous Faces, which was a charity event orchestrated by the not-for-profit League of Hard of Hearing which one of his friends was a part of. This event had restaurants …
This is a super simple dish, and to be honest, my selfish reason for blogging it down is because the recipe is from my mom (and grandmother) so it is a taste of home and my childhood for those days that I’m missing it, rather …
If you don’t like natto (like my husband), this isn’t the post for you and you should probably pretend it doesn’t exist. If you are absolutely obsessed with natto (like myself and our cute little daughters whose palates clearly take after me), this is a …
One of the places I always wanted to visit with the kids, but didn’t get to until last week, is the Cold Spring Harbor Fish Hatchery and Aquarium. It used to supply the state with trout for stocking in public ponds, but became a not-for-profit …
One of the things I’m committed to is supporting both my local economy and mindfully reducing waste—this includes the meat that I eat which means if it’s edible on the animal, I will find a way to enjoy it. I don’t shy away from organ …