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 ...
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spicy gochujang pigs in a blanket
It's a Pig & Quill baby shower!! I can't remember when I first came across the sassy sunshine that is Emily's blog, but it's one of my oldest reads -- Emily's irreverent vivacity and passion for good eats make the Internet that much brighter, and on the days when she turns reflective, it's the kind of writing that hits home, lingers, and ...
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 ...
savory bacon & cheese stuffed french toast
The semester I spent in Hong Kong, I lived in this tiny, sun-drenched studio just big enough for my bed -- it had a bathroom, and a kitchen with two burners that couldn't heat up at the same time, and a little stretch of hardwood floor, and a bed that took up the rest. It was so compact that pulling back the curtains soaked the entire ...
warm grain bowl with roasted cauliflower & spicy chicken
You guys, I had my wedding dress fitting this Monday! It might have been the most excited I've ever been for a Monday morning. Now I'm wishing workweeks always started with a trying-on-a-very-beautiful-tailored-for-you-thing appointment. It would be zero percent financially sound and one hundred percent awesome. Unrelatedly, if it's one thing ...
scallion biscuits with lap cheong gravy
Hi friends! How was your Valentine's Day? I feel like these last few days have been quintessentially wintry in our parts -- we had a serene and snowy Valentine's Day in New York, followed by a couple of those sharp, frigidly brilliant days where everything seems pale, still, and muted by the cold. I went out on Sunday for a few forgotten errands (I ...
spicy garlic eggplant & ground pork noodles
There's something so fun about seeing where someone grew up. Like the first time I visited B2 in Hawaii -- I mean, it's pretty crazy to see what it's like to grow up in a place like Hawaii to begin with, but I got overly sentimental seeing his old elementary school classrooms, the Banyan tree he used to climb during recess, the route he ran through ...
taiwanese popcorn chicken
I'm a sucker for food with meaning. I associate food with all sorts of things -- a means of gathering together, a mode for celebration, a medium of remembrance, a conduit for family traditions, all those grand words. I love it all. This means I probably end up ascribing too much significance to my food sometimes -- wait no we have to get peanut ...
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. ...
budae jjigae
Guys! This is one of my favorite things ever. Okay, so I have a long list of "favorite things ever" -- mostly involving cheese, chocolate, or not leaving the house -- but seriously, this. This is a favorite of favorites. I first had budae jjigae in a little upstairs joint in K-town, underneath a sea of fairy lights and soju caps dangling from a ...