Right around this time two years ago, I christened this baby-blog with a little birthday series for Bowl #2 -- they were something like my third, fourth, and fifth posts, and they were recipes for some of his favorite foods from back home in Hawaii. With another one of his trips around the sun approaching (and because I can never have enough food ...
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tomato bisque & apple-bacon grilled cheese
Hi friends! I'm back! I'm just peeking in again this week to share a special little guest post for a radiant new mama -- Emily from the Pig & Quill (whose baby shower from a few weeks ago was my excuse to nosh on about a year's worth of cocktail franks) had her baby! I'm mildly obsessed with baby Lana James (and her fabulous name) so I can only ...
kimchi potato salad & regular too
So Bowl #2 and I have just come to accept that we're the kind of people whose well-being depends a little pitifully on warm weather. I feel like that should have been obvious to two people from Hawaii and South Carolina, but with every Northeastern spring that's come along we're still baffled at how suddenly we're real people again, wanting to do ...
herbed focaccia & pimento romesco
Hi friends! How was your weekend? We spent a fun one down in North Carolina at the wedding of one of Bowl #2's college friends. This might just be me and the fact that I haven't gone to that many yet, but I feel like I love weddings more and more with every one I go to, even when I'm a plus-one and I've never met the bride and groom. (But also ...
spicy gochujang pigs in a blanket
It's a Pig & Quill baby shower!! I can't remember when I first came across the sassy sunshine that is Emily's blog, but it's one of my oldest reads -- Emily's irreverent vivacity and passion for good eats make the Internet that much brighter, and on the days when she turns reflective, it's the kind of writing that hits home, lingers, and ...
maple sweet potato casserole & thyme marshmallows + thanksgiving stuffing dinner rolls
Pinch dishes from The Fortynine Studio. We had a mini impromptu Friendsgiving last weekend! Even in miniature, it was my first time putting together anything remotely like a Thanksgiving meal on my own, and it was so much fun. For the main, I braised an abundance of chicken legs using Jamie Oliver’s milk chicken recipe, which was life-changing ...
korean soy-braised tofu (dubu jorim)
We’re back! As of an hour ago, Bowl #2 and I are back in our Brooklyn nook, a little tanner, a lot rounder, kind of sleepy, and trying to remember what it’s like to be hungry. Before I go nap off our red-eye, I just wanted to drop in a little hello and a note that I have a guest post up this morning on With Food + Love! Sherrie’s blog is a ...
mashed potatoes with sage brown butter
So this may seem odd, given my great and well-documented love for Southern comfort food, but I'm not usually the biggest fan of mashed potatoes. To me they're like the vanilla extract of side dishes -- potentially delicious, but usually in need of a partner. When I was a kid, my dad used to drive me to KFC as a treat once in awhile after piano ...
spinach salad with warm bacon honey mustard dressing
So I have this problem. Namely, it's a shocking inability to put a salad in my mouth that is not, at the very least, just as unhealthy than a burger or a pizza or any other non-salad-y unhealthy thing that I would otherwise be eating if I weren't eating a "healthy" salad. And then I also have this other problem -- namely, a shocking inability to ...
dressed-up creamed corn
One of my favorite restaurants back home serves a mean creamed corn. Decadent, syrupy-sweet, almost like a custard. (Whenever my dad orders it and the waitress asks if we'd like dessert, he always says, "Got my dessert right here!" and holds it up with big grin. My father is a faithful subscriber to the school of Jolly Dad Banter.) To me, it's ...
