Coming from a Chinese family means that I ate a lot of weird things indiscriminately when I was growing up. But we never really had a lot of anchovies. Actually, up until recently, I really only knew of anchovies as that one American pizza topping that all the fictional characters hated in the books I read as a kid. (Babysitters' Club, anyone?) ...
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kimchi grilled cheese
Did you just gasp with horror? I realize that this is a highly polarizing statement, but I love kimchi and cheese. I can't imagine budae jjigae without cheese. I made kimchi chicken quesadillas once and thought I'd died and gone to heaven. And this kimchi grilled cheese might be my very favorite grilled cheese sandwich, ever. ...
simplest blueberry muffins
Happy Monday! It's such a foreign idea to me that summer is ending. With the bar exam just a few weeks behind us, it feels like it's barely begun. Even so, I know I should get my blueberry recipes out of the way now, so here's the second of the two I made this summer. Last week I posted the first of two blueberry recipes I made this summer, ...
easy turkey pesto club
So we're in the homestretch before the bar! It's one week from tomorrow. At this point, I'm more resigned than afraid (or in denial?), but I should still probably post this quick and scurry back to studying. Here's a quick and easy toasted club sandwich with pesto mayo, sliced turkey and chicken, my favorite spreadable cheese from Laughing Cow, ...
a take on panera’s napa almond chicken salad
butter mochi
Butter mochi! The subject of my third and final installment of this little series on Hawaiian foods (parts 1 and 2 were on ahi poke and Spam musubi). I love all the ways that Hawaii is a blend of Asian and Western influences -- when it comes to food, it can only mean good things. For instance, I'm not the biggest fan of traditional Asian ...
spicy ahi poke, inspired by foodland
Spicy ahi poke is perhaps my greatest love in the food world. First introduced to me when I visited Bowl #2's family in Hawaii, poke is pretty much just fresh chunks of tuna marinated in soy sauce and other ingredients. Some describe it as a Hawaiian ceviche, which I find apt but not all-encompassing of its utter perfection (I just describe it as ...
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, ...