gochujang eggs in purgatory // a common table giveaway!

gochujang eggs in purgatory, from a common table

It’s two months of A Common Table giveaways!  From now until December, I’ll be sharing a recipe from the cookbook here and holding a giveaway of one of my favorite kitchen treasures used in the book every week on Instagram, and you’ll have a week to enter before the winner is announced, along with a new giveaway. 

When I was picking which recipe to share with you this week using the item in this week’s giveaway, I nearly couldn’t decide because I had so many choices.  A Lodge cast iron skillet is the backbone of so many dishes in my kitchen–from perfect golden pancakes to the crispest-edged bindaetteok, gently browned grilled cheeses to steaks with the perfect crust, to soft, gooey cinnamon rolls–that I feel like it might be on every page.  But with the weather cooling down and cozy vibes abounding, these eggs, warm and comforting with a subtle heat, ended up the only logical choice. 

pappardelle with lamb ragu // a common table giveaway!

pappardelle with lamb ragu, from a common table

I’m back!  It’s the Friday before A Common Table ventures out in the world, therefore (1) the last Friday to preorder, if you like, and (2) the first Friday of a ton of giveaways of some of my most favorite things in the book over the next two months!  From now until December, I’ll be sharing a recipe from the cookbook and a giveaway every Friday here and on Instagram, and you’ll have a week to enter before the winner is announced, along with a new giveaway. 

a common table: events and preorder fun!

a common table book events!

Hi friends!  Just popping in to share a few cookbook-related tidbits now that there’s just one week (!!) to go until A Common Table is out in the world! It still doesn’t feel totally real, despite the whole box of copies that arrived last week for giveaways (more on that starting this Friday!) but in the meantime, here are some details on goodies for those of you who have preordered, plus details on a couple of events we’ll be having in the next few weeks should you be around and want to nosh on mochi together and talk about food. I would absolutely love to meet you! Thanks a million for all your kind words–I can’t wait to share the book with you in one short week.

a common table: book trailer!

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Oh my goodness, we have a trailer! If you’ve been around for awhile, you might remember that it’s B2 who likes to tinker with video every now and again.  This has been his recent labor of love, and I’m so excited to share it with you. There’s more coming about the book in the next few weeks, including some goodies for those of you who have preordered (thank you!) and details about a few events for any friends here in Los Angeles, but for now, hope you enjoy the baby footage as much as we do.

a common table cover and preorders!

 a common table cookbook: cover!

It’s real! Two years of reminiscing about favorite family recipes, making messes in the kitchen, running around during naptimes, washing (and washing, and washing) dishes, and a little bit of manic refreshing of online book listings, and A Common Table is all dressed up and out in the world for you to preorder wherever books are sold. I am still pinching myself.

where to buy:

amazon • barnes & noble • books-a-million • indiebound
powell’s • google • ibooks

chocolate babkas and recipe testers

king arthur flour chocolate babka | two red bowls

I blinked and it’s been five months of this adventure called “writing a cookbook.”  How!  Before all this began I wasn’t sure how shooting and writing a book with a new babe would go.  The answer is, as it turns out, a lot of running around during morning naptime, a lot of truly spectacular messes, and a lot of trudging around during afternoon naptime, cleaning up those spectacular messes.  I would not recommend it if you are looking for something relaxing, exactly — but maybe if, you know, you’re looking for an at-home HIIT workout that involves bites of food and a constant mental refrain of I’ll clean that up later.

taiwanese spicy beef noodle soup + some (more) news!

taiwanese spicy beef noodle soup (niu rou mian) | two red bowls

What with cross-country moves here and life changes there, I think you must be tired of me proclaiming “I have news!” all the time, but in the off chance you aren’t, I have just one more piece of news that I’m thrilled — and still a little in disbelief — to be sharing: There’s going to be a Two Red Bowls cookbook! It’s all still in the works, but here are some of the firm details: There will be a little more than 80 recipes, with a few of my very favorites from the blog and the rest new. It will come out sometime in the fall of 2018, published by Rodale. My dad will try to buy every copy.

taiwanese spicy beef noodle soup (niu rou mian) | two red bowls

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  • #sponsored It's the last #acommontablecookbook giveaway! This week I'm pairing up with @pyrexhome to give away an 8x8 baking dish that you can use to make the easiest butterscotch mochi bars, one-bowl and gooey and full of warm, buttery holiday vibes. The Pyrex dish lets you store the cake after you've baked it--it's one of my favorite kitchen dishes ever. To enter, follow @tworedbowls, @pyrexhome, and tag a friend below! 18+, U.S. only, no purchase necessary. Giveaway ends next Friday, 12/21. Thank you so much for all the wonderful photos, words, and shares from the cookbook over the last two months. It has been such a dream come true. ❤️
  • It’s the second to last giveaway for #acommontablecookbook! This week is a box of goodies from @butcher_box that we picked specifically for you to make the recipes from the book 👏🏼 including rib eye and baby back ribs and ground pork for these collard wontons (recipe #ontheblog!) and all sorts of other things! To enter, follow @tworedbowls and @butcher_box and tag a friend below. 18+, US only, and ends next Friday 12/7! PS Congrats @spontaneoustomato for winning last week!!!! And PPS thank you so much for all the wonderful words on my last post 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 B4 feels so loved ❤️
  • It’s a baby musubi—for a baby musubi! B4 is on the way!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉 Now that #acommontablecookbook is out in the world, ramblings about another sort of baby + a very last-minute Thanksgiving round-up are #ontheblog this morning 🤗
  • This week’s #acommontablecookbook giveaway is for some of my favorite bowls ever, by the wonderful @speckandstone!! They’re just big enough and just deep enough, gray and speckled and perfect for serving up sides for a crowd or just a big bowl of Chinese scrambled eggs & tomato for you while you wait for Thanksgiving (recipe with my mother’s little twist is #ontheblog if you need one 🍅) As usual, follow @tworedbowls and @speckandstone, and tag a friend below to enter! 18+, US only, no purchase necessary. Ends on Saturday 11/24. And yay @jasminevictor for winning last week’s!! DM me your address whenever you have a moment! 🙏🏼
  • We’re halfway through two months of #acommontablecookbook giveaways! ✨ This week it’s two of my favorite things in the kitchen—a super special set of 4 kitchen cloths from @shopfoglinen (aka the linens in practically all my photos) in natural and grey thin white stripe, and 3 of the sturdiest, prettiest handmade walnut cooking spoons from @poldersowm, along with a revisit to one of my favorite recipes in the cookbook up #ontheblog. To enter, follow @tworedbowls, @shopfoglinen, and @poldersowm, and tag a friend below! 18+, US, no purchase necessary; ends next Friday 11/16. Finally, YAY to @abigaill_smith and @stephenv94 for winning last week’s! Please DM me your addresses whenever you can 🙏🏼🙏🏼
  • 🥟🥟🥟!! With all the craziness of the last year, I didn’t realize how long it had been since I sat down to make potstickers from scratch—so excited to pair up with @etsy to make them for their “Old Recipe, New Dish” holiday series 🥟#sponsored One bite of these reminded me of the first time I had them in a Shanghai breakfast house as a little kid, and why they have been such a special part of our Thanksgiving and holidays since the first time I made them with B2 years ago. The bottoms of the skins fry up shatteringly crisp while the tops stay pliable and toothsome, and they give way to a juicy, impossibly flavorful filling that leaves no comparison to premade ones. I always end up eating about four straight out of the pan with no dipping sauce at all. You can find the recipe (from #acommontablecookbook!) on the Etsy blog this morning!! Link in profile 👏🏼
  • It’s time for another #acommontablecookbook giveaway! We’re giving away TWO sets of these Staub mini cocottes (which are so cute that I wish I could make everything in them every day, including these Asian pear and jasmine crumbles from the cookbook) and two signed copies of the book. To enter, follow @tworedbowls and @staub_usa and tag a friend. 18+, US, and ends next Friday, 11/9. And yay for @andreasung for winning last week’s Lodge giveaway! (PS a big huge heartfelt thank you to everyone who came out last Sunday to @nowservingla (and to Michelle, Ken, and @sookbyminapark) for chatting and eating mochi with me and making the morning so wonderful! If you missed it, there are still a few spots available for dinner on Nov. 10 at @hinokibird!) #madeinstaub
  • It’s another #acommontablecookbook giveaway!! This week we’re giving away a Lodge 10.25-inch skillet—which I’m pretty sure I used for every other recipe in this book, from these gochujang eggs in purgatory (recipe up #ontheblog today!) to buttermilk mochi pancakes to bindaetteok, cinnamon rolls, gireumjang steak, and about a million others—plus a signed copy of the book. To enter, follow @tworedbowls and @lodgecastiron and tag a friend below! 18+ and US residents only, giveaway ends next Friday 11/2! AND—congrats to @kayleighkosmas for last week’s @colleen.hennessey giveaway! 🎉🎉 Thank you so much to everyone who has been making food from the book and posting and sending such kind words!! ❤️ you have made this an unbelievably special week.

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