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oyakodon

01.06.2016

oyakodon | two red bowls

oyakodon | two red bowls

Hi friends!  Happy 2016!  How are you faring and/or eating this week?  I’ve been ping-ponging between something like I must consume the healthiest superfood in the world, my stomach is drowning in butter and please don’t make me go cold turkey, my stomach needs more butter.  After a little of each (hi there, Sunday night’s delivery pizza), I think this oyakodon is, happily, somewhere in between — something to comfort my butter-addled belly but still good for it, too.  Oyakodon is always what comes to mind when I think of healing comfort food.  A custard-y chicken and egg rice bowl, it’s warm, gently simmered, soft and savory.  I first had it in the depths of a Boston winter on a sniffly sick day; it was one of our favorite meals in Japan after a rainy morning.  It’s a homey, simple back-to-basics meal that just makes you feel cozy and good after a marathon of holiday eating, and especially now that winter has finally landed in New York (and getting myself out the door in the morning is looking like this), I feel like it’s pretty much perfect for that hug-in-a-bowl, comforting-but-nourishing in-between.

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View More: asian· dinner· gluten-free· japanese· lunch

miso-glazed scallops

12.15.2015

miso-glazed scallops | two red bowls

miso-glazed scallops | two red bowls

It’s my dad’s birthday today! My brother and I are patting each other on the back because we enrolled him in a Beer of the Month club for his birthday this year and saved ourselves him from getting something like socks or his fourth Roger Federer cap. His two great loves are beer and tennis (well, and Chinese food), so part of me is wondering how we didn’t think of Beer of the Month before, but most of me is just super glad for the friends who enrolled B2 and me in Salsa of the Month for our wedding gift, because (1) it is totally awesome to get salsa on your doorstep and (2) I definitely nabbed that idea from them.

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peppermint mochi

12.08.2015

peppermint mochi | two red bowls

Oh man, it’s been not-enough-hours-in-the-day days around here lately.  Most of the time it is safe to ignore me when I say that because I spend about half my waking hours huffing to B2 about the “million things I have to do” and then the other half of those hours on the couch doing zero of those things until it is too late to do them, but for once, it actually has been a little nonstop from one thing to the next.  One of them is a very good one, though, and it’s that one of my good friends, source of indispensable life advice, and surrogate jie jie has been in town with her new (!) and awesome fiancé!  They’ve been staying with us and I couldn’t be happier about it.  I’m convinced that having house guests is one of my favorite ways to see friends.  I get to feel like a real grown-up person when I put out “guest linens” and coffee accoutrements “in case you want to make some in the morning” (even if I have a couch instead of a guest bedroom and I forget to put out that cone that goes in the Hario so actually you cannot make some in the morning, oops), and it fits right in with my lazy-homebody agenda (see, e.g., dinner parties) because when things get hectic for them or me, there’s still always time before bed to sit and chat in pajamas and eat cookies even though you already brushed your teeth.

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View More: asian· christmas· dairy-free· desserts· gluten-free· holidays· vegan

thanksgiving leftovers “red beans” & coconut rice

11.24.2015

thanksgiving leftover "red beans" & coconut rice | two red bowls

thanksgiving leftover "red beans" & coconut rice | two red bowls

I’m boring when it comes to leftovers. (Strategy: Remove from refrigerator and eat. Alternatively, freeze, forget about, then find three months later and still eat.) My mom, on the other hand, makes magic with them — I can’t remember a single time that she tossed out leftovers in our kitchen, or a time that we didn’t ask for the rest of our dinner to be packed up when we went out to eat. Instead, I can see her poised with an open clamshell container in one hand and a metal spatula in the other, mouth pursed, surveying her wok and trying to figure out how to upcycle last night’s takeout into inevitably more delicious fried rice, or stir-fried noodles, or a simmering pot of soup. Some of her recipes are ones where she even swears by leftovers, like her mapo tofu, which she won’t make unless she’s stir-fried giant prawns the day before and has the fiery-red broth left over. (Don’t tell her I gave away her secret ingredient.)

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View More: dinner· fall· gluten-free· holidays· mains

potato, garlic, & leek soup

11.10.2015

potato, garlic, & leek soup | two red bowls

potato, garlic, & leek soup | two red bowls

Every once in a blue moon, usually when we’re just about to fall asleep, B2 likes to come up with ideas for things I should cook next.  I use “ideas” loosely, because it’s mostly a sleepy, intentionally goofy dialogue that consists of “what about …” followed by a long pause and things like “… homemade hot pockets!” (to be fair, that would be delicious) or “something with cheese” or “pumpkin toast.”  (When I asked what pumpkin toast would be, like toasted pumpkin bread or toast with pumpkin on it or toasted pumpkin or what, his answer was, “You know.  Pumpkin.  Toast.  Pumpkin toast.”  And then he fell asleep.  Two weeks later, I showed him this and he said, with glee, “See?  It was a good idea!”)

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View More: appetizers· dinner· fall· gluten-free· sides· soups and stews· thanksgiving

hot honeycomb candy

10.28.2015

hot honeycomb candy | two red bowls

hot honeycomb candy | two red bowls

I can’t decide what I’m more excited about sharing this morning.  This honeycomb candy, feathery-crisp with a subtle heat, dunked gleefully into dark chocolate, and perfectly Halloween-color-schemed, or the book that it came from, The New Sugar & Spice. Both are playful, just the right amount of unconventional, and totally awesome, pretty much just like the lady behind them, and I couldn’t be more thrilled that they are both in my kitchen right now (except there’s not much left of the honeycomb, actually).

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View More: desserts· gluten-free· summer

bibim-bar! (a bibimbap party)

10.07.2015

bibimbap party! | two red bowls

bibimbap party! | two red bowls

bibimbap party! | two red bowls

We had a bibimbap party this weekend!  I don’t know whether it’s a function of living in frenetic New York, or having a lot of lawyer friends who are forever sucked back into the office on weekends or late nights, or even just being supposedly “grown-up,” but sometimes it’s startling how easy it is to blink and find that it’s been months since we’ve caught up with some of our friends.  So, because the answer to everything is always food, B2 and I made it our goal every couple of months to shove all our random crap into closets, actually Swiffer the floors for once, and have people over for a low-key potluck. Earlier this summer we had a taco party where I made my first pico de gallo ever (I know, how) and Jessica‘s amazing Chipotle-style corn salsa, and overestimated the amount of meat people would eat by about 200% (I still have taco meat in the freezer).  And this weekend we had a bibim-bar!

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View More: asian· celebrations & gatherings· dinner· gluten-free· korean· mains· vegetarian

frankies spuntino caesar salad with salmon

08.19.2015

frankies spuntino caesar with salmon | two red bowls

A few months ago, a super exciting thing happened and I leveled up into my own office at work (we share for the first few years). OK, so it’s true, it has no windows. That comes after three years. But for the first time I have a little cave all to myself!  I went a tad crazy decorating my haven with gratuitously shiny file racks and cups shaped like fishes and a couple of the dreamy cookbooks I’ve been coveting, like Karen Mordechai’s Sunday Suppers and Kristen Miglore’s Food52 Genius Recipes.  It’s pretty much all the things I do not need to practice law.  But it makes my new nook so homey!  (And it gives me a neat little escape from work whenever I feel like daydreaming about food.)

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View More: gluten-free· lunch· salads· spring· summer

fig, rose, & almond granola parfaits

08.05.2015

fig, rose & almond granola parfaits | two red bowls

fig, rose & almond granola parfaits | two red bowls

Figs are here!  We finally had our first figs of the year this weekend, and words cannot adequately express how excited I am.  I feel like my first fig sighting is always one of the best days of the summer, even if it means fall isn’t far away, but this year I’ve been even more eager than usual to catch a glimpse of those plump little soldiers standing in their neat, blue-purple rows under the awning at our favorite produce store.

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View More: breakfast· desserts· fall· gluten-free· summer· vegetarian

charred corn with miso butter, bacon & garlic scapes

07.22.2015

charred corn with miso butter, bacon, & garlic scapes | two red bowls

charred corn with miso butter, bacon, & garlic scapes | two red bowls

Last Saturday, when we were still puttering around in the throes of jet lag, a good friend dropped by to help ease us back into the real world.  She belongs to that lucky (for us) class of friends where the apartment is never too messy to have them pop in and where a squishy couch and some food is all you need for “entertainment,” which was perfect, because that’s pretty much what we had — half-unpacked duffels in the corner and all.

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View More: gluten-free· lunch· sides· summer

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