It’s Bowl #2’s birthday today! Hip hip hooray! Honestly, I’m a little embarrassed this year, because our recent life whirlwind bit me in the butt and I didn’t have anything particularly special planned for him – unlike last year’s Hawaii food-stravaganza. It's particularly tragic because my man has been so downright amazing lately -- powering ...
cooking
farro & asparagus salad with sesame-miso dressing
After such a long and lingering winter this year, it feels like this late, coy spring is hurtling into summer faster than I can keep up with. One moment it was snowing in April, a perpetual winter, a movie on pause, and the next it was everything at once -- an 80-degree Memorial Day, violently green foliage everywhere we look, another year’s worth ...
pimento cheese
I have kind of a funny relationship with the South. I spent most of my childhood in the land of sweet tea and fried chicken, but while living there, I don't know if I would have ever identified as "Southern." There are some ways in which the South and I just didn't really get along, and when I left, I figured I'd head out and not look back. In ...
spinach, caramelized onion & roasted garlic white pizza
Sometimes it tickles me to realize what a sliver of things show up in this little blog life of mine. For instance, an abbreviated list of the wide expanse of Things that Happen and are Not Pictured in my Non-Blog Life: Dishes Cleaning up artful mess Cleaning up artless mess Fits of food rage (RIP mini cakes) More dishes Realizing a ...
clinton st. baking co. pancakes for two
Happy first week of spring! Eeeee. Spring and early summer are my favorite times of year. Even though it doesn't feel terribly spring-like yet up here, I'm still reveling in the abundance of sunlight from the longer days we're having, the few spots of balmy weather here and there, and the promise of warmth to come. In anticipation of ...
cornmeal pancakes with blackberry-goat cheese syrup
Work has been busy lately. Before I started these law shenanigans, I dreaded the times I'd say that phrase. I had friends in undergrad and law school who used to say that they'd go stir-crazy with nothing to do for too long, which I never understood at the time. I thought of myself as the kind of person who'd always be totally okay with having ...
tea eggs
Here’s what not to do when making tea eggs. Do not: 1. Go to law school, and in your first year, get really stressed and sleep-deprived, then decide to destress by making them in your communal kitchen that is down the hallway and through some locked doors from your dorm room. 2. Make them in your faraway communal kitchen, at night, when you are ...
dark chocolate beef chili with a polar vortex on top
So, this weather, huh? I’d originally planned to post this ice cream that I can’t stop talking about, but then I heard it was supposed to be, you know, kinda cold outside this week. And somehow it seems like bad form to post something frozen when people are in danger of actually freezing. (Stay warm, folks!) So let’s talk about the ultimate warming ...
shanghainese lion’s head meatballs
I don't really associate New Year's Eve with champagne or sequins. Instead, I associate New Year’s with food -- maybe even more than Thanksgiving or Christmas, at my house, New Year's Eve meant a family feast. A traditional Chinese New Year (and regular December 31 New Year's Eve, because we totally double-down on our New Year's celebrations) at ...
bacon buttermilk (greek yogurt) pancakes
I’ve grown up eating savory-sweet food all my life. I thought it was just a quirk of my mother’s to add sugar to everything until I looked up Shanghainese cuisine on Wikipedia a few years ago and found that, evidently, it’s a Shanghai thing. Nowadays, I follow exactly in my mom’s footsteps and add a bit (or a lot) of sugar to almost everything I ...