In my continuing quest to identify salads that are acceptable as entire meals, I’ve started adding lots of non-salad ingredients, like handfuls of rice noodles and omelets. Because nobody wants to eat only leaves, you guys. But for real, this salad tastes like a spring roll without the fuss of actually rolling up spring rolls. […]
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Tomato eggs (Fanqie chao dan)
My family loves eggs. When I lived at home, we would buy them in 18-packs (sometimes two of them), and occasionally in the smaller palettes that Costco offers. A fried egg on a carb vessel, your choice of rice or toast, continues to be my go-to quick meal and has been more or less since […]
David Lebovitz’ Basil Ice Cream
It’s a scorching 55 degrees in San Francisco right now, so, let’s make some ice cream, yeah? It took me a while to get the hang of making ice cream, but once I figured it out (the trick was using way more ice cream salt), it’s been very entertaining. While San Francisco’s ice cream scene is […]
Some sourdough progress
Sourdough is looking more and more like the real thing. Go, Starter, go!
Daifuku strawberry mochi
When my roommates are out of town and I’m home alone, things seem to go one of two ways: either I get super intense and try labor-intensive cooking experiments & aggressively socialize, or, I watch television for hours on end and eat exclusively instant ramen and leftovers. Neither are great. I shouldn’t be trusted on my […]