This little blog came about when I was in my last year of law school, living and cooking in a basement apartment with B2, my then-boyfriend and good-humored taste-tester. (He eats both my culinary successes and failures with dignity and aplomb.) The two red bowls were his. After taking grainy phone photo after grainy phone photo of meals I’d made in them, it seemed like it only made sense to put them all somewhere. That somewhere ended up being here! As for what to call it–after how good those bowls were to us, there seemed no better namesake than this.
Nowadays, the food that makes its way here is usually comfort food, and easy, with occasional Asian influences from my Chinese background and B2’s Korean mother, and a touch of Southern here and there from my childhood in South Carolina. I also have a little newsletter, where I share more of the in-betweens: recipes from elsewhere that we’ve been enjoying, useful shortcuts for weeknight eating, cooking with kids, and other bits and bats.
I’m glad you’re here!