Hi friends! Happy 2016! How are you faring and/or eating this week? I've been ping-ponging between something like I must consume the healthiest superfood in the world, my stomach is drowning in butter and please don't make me go cold turkey, my stomach needs more butter. After a little of each (hi there, Sunday night's ...
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fig jam & goat cheese thumbprint cookies
We're in Hawaii! I had a filing the night before that kept me in the office about a million hours later than I expected, we packed half the things we meant to pack and none of our laundry, but we made it on the plane (I think I set a new record for the most hours I've or anyone has ever slept on a single flight) and now I'm sitting at B2's family's ...
miso-glazed scallops
It's my dad's birthday today! My brother and I are patting each other on the back because we enrolled him in a Beer of the Month club for his birthday this year and saved ourselves him from getting something like socks or his fourth Roger Federer cap. His two great loves are beer and tennis (well, and Chinese food), so part of me is wondering how ...
peppermint mochi
Oh man, it's been not-enough-hours-in-the-day days around here lately. Most of the time it is safe to ignore me when I say that because I spend about half my waking hours huffing to B2 about the "million things I have to do" and then the other half of those hours on the couch doing zero of those things until it is too late to do them, but for ...
thanksgiving leftovers “red beans” & coconut rice
I'm boring when it comes to leftovers. (Strategy: Remove from refrigerator and eat. Alternatively, freeze, forget about, then find three months later and still eat.) My mom, on the other hand, makes magic with them -- I can't remember a single time that she tossed out leftovers in our kitchen, or a time that we didn't ask for the rest of our dinner ...
apple pie hotteok
We're scheduled to fly back to Hawaii in a little less than a month, and an email has already landed in our inboxes from my adorable mother-in-law, asking whether we want galbi or spicy ahi poke when we land. (It actually came through like, two weeks ago.) B2's mom is my favorite for all kinds of reasons, but I love this about her -- every time we ...
kabocha & caramelized onion galette
As much as I dread fall (mostly because of the season that-shall-not-be-named that comes after it), I have to admit that I secretly enjoy more things about it than any cold-weather hater should have the right to. There's the undeniable coziness of multiple layers and fuzzy slippers, the soothing weight of a heavy comforter at night, the crisp ...
caramelized onion & roasted garlic pasta
A couple of months ago I stumbled on this caramelized onion and yogurt pasta by Diane Kochilas. It's just like it sounds -- tangles of caramelized onions and thick, strained Greek yogurt, tossed with ...
bibim-bar! (a bibimbap party)
We had a bibimbap party this weekend! I don't know whether it's a function of living in frenetic New York, or having a lot of lawyer friends who are forever sucked back into the office on weekends or late nights, or even just being supposedly "grown-up," but sometimes it's startling how easy it is to blink and find that it's been months since ...
lavender goat cheese cheesecakes
Before these little cheesecakes, my cheesecake experience was solely and shamelessly limited to this -- the seven-ingredient recipe on the back of the Philadelphia cream cheese box. It was five ingredients if you bought the Keebler crust in its own ...