Hello from my Chinese-American family — we’re waiting for Beyonce to come on at the Superbowl halftime before we (well, my mom) starts preparing a Lunar New Year dinner of fish three ways: steamed whole, seared fillet, and sashimi. So lucky to have the ocean in my belly, tonight. Other things I’m doing for the […]
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Takoyaki (Ika-yaki?) Waffle
Things I’ve made in my waffle iron: waffled tofu (good!), falafawaffle (fail!), sweet potatoes (yum!) greens waffle (surprisingly good!), hash browns (obvi good!), cashew oat waffle. Things I haven’t made in my waffle iron: normal waffles And, now, we can add these squid waffles. It’s my take on the Japanese octopus balls, takoyaki — which are divine […]
Kale and Carrot Salad, inspired by Avec
This is the sort of people my family members are: when my sister had an opportunity to go to Chicago for an extracurricular activity, we all essentially said, “Pizza? Yeah, I could do that,” and then bought our plane tickets. I solicited recommendations from epicurean friends and made an intense schedule with each meal, and a […]
Near & Far by Heidi Swanson: Cookbook Review
Heidi Swanson is kind of the queen bee of food blogs, and I’m basically an endless trove of 101cookbooks jokes that only a very specific set of people find funny. I mean, my most used blog category is one of them. You guys know what I’m talking about. But the thing is, as much as […]
Chinese-ish Roast Chicken
If your family’s like mine (that is, 4 people who do enjoy a meal but aren’t, you know, actually bears), then, maybe a whole turkey is just too much bird, even on Thanksgiving. As much as I strangely enjoyed spatchcocking a turkey that one year — cracking the breastbone reminded me strongly of CPR training, […]