i hope you eat good food, grow beautiful things, and have more love than you know what to do with.
I grow nagaimo (Dioscorea polystachya), also known as the cinnamon vine, Chinese yam, or Japanese yam here in my backyard—it’s a beautiful and funny perennial vine, growing little bulbils that you can stick into the ground or steam over rice. It is a pain to …
Now that my Misfit Market subscription allows me to customize my box, it makes it so much easier to plan the meals I’m going to make. One of my favorite dish (or snack—I’m not opposed to eating a big ol’ bowl of this by itself) …
I’ve been meaning to make a post about this particular dish but I find myself always finishing it before taking a picture. This is a nostalgic childhood dish–my mom would make a huge pot of it during chilly days, and we’d immediately recognize the fragrant, …
With the abundance of radishes in my Misfit Market box (read my review here), I started to think of creative ways to use them up. I just so happen to still have two mason jars full of dried black trumpets from last year’s mushroom foraging …
I am often at a loss as to what to do with radishes–after soups, salads, and pickles, any extra ones seem more like a peppery curse than they do a boon. But I got a bag of them in this week’s Misfit Market box and …
This milk colored broth pairs perfectly with a black earthenware bowl. I used the black to show the contrast of how white the soup is. I found that in order to make it extremely rich and flavorful, I baby it over a rolling boil with …
This is the story of how I started out with one horseradish plant (Armoracia rusticana) and ended up with over 20. Horseradish is one of the few condiments that I can’t do without when eating raw clams or oysters. It’s also a delicious compliment to …