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spam musubi!

Hello! It’s been awhile! Pretty much a week after I started this up, I went into a whirlwind month and a half where we took our very last finals ever as students, left Boston, moved to New York (where we had 10 days to furnish our new but totally empty apartment before hosting family), went back to Boston, graduated from law school, visited family, ...

spicy basil fried rice

I have never seen anyone anywhere eat with the capacity and fervor of Bowl #2 when he orders spicy basil fried rice for delivery from a Thai place. No matter how monstrous the portion is, he will finish it (even if it means total immobilization and agony for hours afterwards). So, given the tumultuous events in Boston yesterday, I thought I would ...

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  • Little bits of Sunday. ✨ Slowly settling in after renovations (!!!) and realizing how little I know about how to make things look nice 🤪 Thank you @mybloomist for making it easier by sending such beautiful things!! They have the most gorgeous collection of dried botanicals and vases and bowls to put them in (this one is by @sheldonceramics!) and more, and they have a discount code for you too 👏🏼 TRB15 for 15% off or TRB25 for $25 off a $100 purchase until 1/31. Or until I buy everything out 👀 Happy weekend friends ✨ #makenaturehome #spon
  • Dduk guk for the new year 🍲 We had a more eventful NYE than usual this year—Clara had an unexpectedly bad reaction to some dairy and we ended up in the ER for the evening while she got checked out. Everything is fine! Clara ended the night by waving to all the nurses and clapping to twinkle twinkle little star as we went home✨ but it was definitely one of the scariest moments that we’ve faced as parents so far. Feeling a little shaky, a lot relieved, and extra grateful to have our little family all together on this first quiet day of the new year. Hope everybody is having a good New Year too ❤️
  • We have a full full house for Christmas this year!!! 🎄✨ Currently sous chef for Christmas dinner B2’s family is making, complete with the first turkey the new kitchen has ever seen 😱but these are some stamped shortbread with a sikhye glaze we made in the quieter run up to the big day. ❄️ B2 says sikhye reminds him of the holidays so this was our little experiment for the year. Recipe at some point! 🤪 Merry merry to everybody celebrating ❤️
  • Cookies for our Monday! ❄️❄️ The kitchen is not quiiite done (almost🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼) but the cooktop and oven are working!!!!! So obviously the first thing to make was... 🍪🤪 Recipe soon—happy last week before Christmas, friends!
  • A little video! Red curry kabocha soup with @kitchenaidusa’s K400 Blender to get us through the no-man’s-land stretch between holidays and during kitchen renovations. It’s been slow but so exciting to see our house re-emerge from under tarps and ram board, and the transition has been easier because we’ve had KitchenAid small appliances like this one to tide us over. All you need to do is simmer a bit of Thai red curry paste with velvety coconut milk until it smells amazing, add in kaffir lime leaves and Thai basil, a little brown sugar and fish sauce, a touch of salt if you want, and blend it all up with roasted kabocha until smooth. It ends up complex and nuanced, sweet and savory and spicy, in 10 minutes of hands-on time. The full recipe and more about the K400 Blender is #ontheblog this morning! 📹 AND 🎶(!!) by the most talented @bowl_n2 a bowl_n1 could ever ask for 😭✨❤️ #marksofmaking #sponsored
  • What the first Sunday of December looked like four years ago: sleeping in and baking 🍪 What it looks like this year: a toddler doing a dance while eating peanuts, a chubby baby probably napping way too late, a tree hastily and triumphantly purchased (and now, partially trimmed before I decided to sit on my butt and Instagram). Two way more tired, but ever happier bowls. 🎄
  • There is construction just to the left of this and construction to the right 😜but in this five foot stretch only, peaceful fall things making my heart happy. 🍂✨ Happy Friday eve!
  • Honey sesame corn pudding up #ontheblog this morning in the ramp up to Thanksgiving! I’m a bad child of the South and am new to corn pudding, but what I lack in history I’m now making up for in fervor—a crisp edge but a soft pudding center, creamy but studded with corn, sweetly decadent but just one savory note shy of dessert. Sesame oil and sesame seeds (borrowed from the sesame cornbread in my book 😬) add a nuttiness and a tiny bit of crunch. It ends up somehow reminiscent of toasty kettle corn and chawanmushi at the same time, and if you need me on Thanksgiving you can find me with a casserole dish of it all to myself 🌽 Recipe is on the blog this morning! What do you guys plan to make? Two weeks to go!! 🦃 #f52wrappedup