When we came back from Japan, I didn't think I'd try to recreate any of the magical, thoughtfully, wonderfully-made food we had while we were there. It all seemed way beyond my ken -- a just-so balance of kombu and bonito, a dollop of miso and things I couldn't even guess at, hand-pulled and long-simmered and much-perfected. That was true most of ...
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boursin & caramelized onion tartlets
This is part of a little series on our wedding eats! I'll be sharing homemade versions of some of our reception eats, our cake, and our wedding favors in the next few weeks. You can see the first part of this series -- a few of B2's favorite Hawaii foods for his birthday -- here! Guys, I really love wedding appetizers. Something about endless ...
hurricane popcorn
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 ...
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 ...
scallion kimchi & fried egg tortillas
Spring is coming! It's true, we did just spend the majority of last week's commutes skating through pools of slush, and there are still attractively sooty mounds of snow piled in the purgatory between the cars and the sidewalk. But they're melting so fast. We've been waking up to a cacophony of long-lost birds outside our window, I've ...
swiss chard & quinoa cakes, with garlic yogurt
Oh man. So here's a thing about me -- I am really, really clumsy. Like, if I were a candy bar, I'd be this one. And if I were an idiom, I'd be a bull in a china shop. Sometimes I think it amazes Bowl #2 -- who does everything thoughtfully and deliberately and un-clumsily -- how little sense I have of space and time and, you know, where my body is. ...
kabocha, sage, & crème fraîche pappardelle
You guys, I am so excited about these next few months. It's Thanksgiving soon, which means feasting galore (and sides-a-palooza!), and after that it's the run-up to Christmas, which is pretty much a giant, no-holds-barred excuse to bake every single holiday cookie I can think of, and then it's Christmas for real, and we'll be flying out to see my ...
pear & gorgonzola salad with cinnamon-glazed walnuts
After vacation last month and a slow start getting back into the swing of things, these last couple of weeks feel like we're settling back into old routines. Slow mornings aided by snooze buttons (why is it so much harder to get up when it gets chilly out?) later evenings in the office with a salad and extra coffee with PSL syrup. On my commutes I ...
grilled peach & burrata salad
The first time I had burrata was just a few months ago, at this little shindig. It was served over stone fruit in a salad that inspired this one, and it blew my mind. Burrata is like a present but the present is wrapped in a present -- it's more like two cheeses in one, a thin, supple pouch of fresh mozzarella that holds soft, creamy ricotta-like ...