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life lately

March 7, 2021

Hello! It's been awhile, hasn't it? I thought I'd just pop in to say a quick hello and share a few snippets from life lately, even if I don't have a new recipe to share. First, the big news--we are, in fact, expecting another baby bowl. It's going to be another little girl! This pregnancy has been rougher than the previous two combined, but ...

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clara is one!

March 12, 2020

Our big girl, where is the time going? I both refuse to believe it's been a year since our little sunshine mochi came into our lives, and can't remember life before she did. After convincing us that she might army-crawl until high school, she is finally charging around on all fours and pulling up on things. She is our sweetest lovebug. She ...

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our baby essentials, 0-6 months

September 9, 2019

Clara is six months old! This is prime chubby baby age--I loved this age with Luke. She's giggling and babbling up a storm, and rolling over like a champ. I spend so much of these days savoring the roly-poly weight of her and how lucky I am to cuddle this perfect little Gerber chub that we adore so much. Even when she decides that 5 a.m. is ...

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clara’s 100 days

June 19, 2019

It's been 100 days with my Clara girl! (Well, more like 115.) Like we did with Luke, we celebrated Clara's 100 days with her baptism and a teeny tiny baek-il with family. We had red bean steamed rice cake, pat tteok, and pretty pastel song pyeon; I made the excellent double-vanilla cake from Tessa Huff's new ...

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baby bowl: round 2!

March 31, 2019

Hi from Clara Young! Just like that, it's already been a month--four weeks of vanilla-scented newborn cuddles, milk drunk faces, swaddle blankets and Lilliputian diapers. Like her brother, she came into the world with a head full of hair, a button nose, and powdery soft cheeks. She has perfect little oval fingernails (on spidery long fingers, my ...

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Life

2018

December 31, 2018

Can it really be 2019 already?  We've spent our last week of 2018 on the couch or in the kitchen (or scattering toy trucks from one end of the house to the other, one guess as to who is doing what), thoroughly unwinding and nonstop eating and generally super enjoying ourselves, and I hope you have been too. ...

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halloweens and first birthdays!

November 2, 2017

Our sweet boy is one! ...

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Life

baby bowl: 100 days

February 2, 2017

100 days!  Last week was Luke's 100th day in this big wide world of ours.  He was baptized at the church down the street, and after the baptism we had a teeny 100th day party, or a baek-il.  His halmuni made Luke a miniature tteok-themed lei and a baby-crown out of silver posterboard, which has nothing to do with Korean tradition but everything to ...

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almond white chocolate flax oatmeal, for mamas

January 11, 2017

Happy 2017! This is the year that my brother graduates from college (!) and when he first started as a freshman I kept telling everyone that 2017 didn't seem like a real year that would actually happen. But somehow, it's here. (Despite 2016's best efforts.) Our waning weeks of the year were spent eating (of course), avidly watching B2 make a dent ...

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baby bowl b-side: his birth story

November 17, 2016

So I was a little hesitant to share this post.  I had so many emotions over the fact that Luke was born by C-section, but didn't want to write anything negative about it, because we don't want to forget for a second how fortunate we are to have had our little man, however he arrived.  Still, in the weeks leading up to Luke’s arrival, I found other ...

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Hi! I’m Cynthia

An avid eater and dabbling food-maker living in California with my husband, “Bowl #2,” and our baby bowls, Luke and Clara.

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The incomparable @hettymckinnon first sent me a ja The incomparable @hettymckinnon first sent me a jar of her homemade chili oat crisp nearly a year ago, at the start of the pandemic, and it was so life-alteringly delicious that I have been itching to share it with you here and on my blog ever since.  Well, it has been a long wait, but the book that it is in, “To Asia, With Love,” is finally coming out stateside in a few weeks, and so I wrote up Hetty’s recipe earlier this week in anticipation.  I did not know at that time what would happen in Atlanta this week, but have felt in my heart how necessary a book like Hetty’s, and voices like Hetty’s, were already—and even more so now. 

Hetty writes poignantly in “To Asia, With Love” about a “third culture”–a struggle for her identity growing up as a Chinese immigrant in Australia, and the eventual “cross-pollination of ideas and techniques that are grounded in [her] Chinese heritage, yet greatly influenced by growing up in the Western world.” As immigrants, our cultural identities, and the fabric of society into which we weave, are so complicated.  It can be beautiful, but it can also be messy, and events like these show how devastatingly far we still have to go.  I don’t have anything more insightful to add than has already been said by so many, but I am glad more than ever for the brilliant, thoughtful voices around me to whom I can look for guidance and inspiration.  Some resources posted to my profile, and if you’re looking for a spicy balm to take your mind off things, recipe for Hetty’s chili crisp (which is, all else aside, truly one of the best things I’ve ever made) is on my blog. ❤️ #stopasianhate #stopaapihate
One more lil dumpling coming June 2021 🤪🥟🥟🥟 #iamcurrentlyaverylargedumpling
Teaming up with @kitchenaidusa to make my favorite Teaming up with @kitchenaidusa to make my favorite garlic, ginger & soy salmon en papillote using the SmartOven+ Steamer Attachment!  It’s based on a recipe in my cookbook that always seems to become a favorite around this time of year—hearty but not heavy, fun for a fancy dinner but still nourishing (and best of all, easy). The SmartOven+ steamer makes it even better because it’s big enough to steam more salmon at once, meaning no parchment to fiddle with and more delicious dinners for our family of four—and on top of that the water in the steamer tray keeps the fish even more moist than the packets do.  A step-by-step is in my Stories!  If you try it, I’d love to see.  #KitchenAidAmbassador #sponsored
I’m out of practice, but the bubs didn’t mind. I’m out of practice, but the bubs didn’t mind.  Merry, merry everyone🎄🎄(Cinnamon roll recipe in #acommontablecookbook + swapped the cream cheese for @vermontcreamery mascarpone today 😍)
Getting ready for our littler Thanksgiving this ye Getting ready for our littler Thanksgiving this year and impulse-bought a few pounds of chicken legs instead of a turkey.  If you have a favorite way to roast/bake/cook a mess of chicken drumsticks, please tell?? (And, let’s be real, we’ll probably make the exact same amount of stuffing as we would for big Thanksgiving, and then make stuffing waffles all weekend... 🙃 edit: recipe in the way back blog archives!) Happy Sunday 💙
Turning the oven back on now that it’s cooler ou Turning the oven back on now that it’s cooler out--blistered sugar snaps with crispy quinoa, whipped feta, and miso honey butter, inspired by a warm sugar snap salad I had last summer.  I am not normally a griller by any means, but grilling these sugar snaps was thankfully a lot easier using the KitchenAid Smart Oven+ with grill attachment.  You can find the recipe on the blog this morning!  If you try it, please tag me, @KitchenAidUSA and #MakeItTogether--I’d love to see.  #KitchenAidAmbassador
No one ever accused this family of being unpredict No one ever accused this family of being unpredictable.  Lotus paste, egg yolk, @keewahbakery every year all the years 🙃 Happy early mid-autumn festival, hope you are all safe and well.  And please vote 🙏🏼
Good Monday morning 👋🏼 I didn’t expect to Good Monday morning 👋🏼 I didn’t expect to take such a long break from IG this summer.  It has really been a year full of things none of us could have imagined at the end of 2019.  But the babies and @bowl_n2 are good 🙏🏼 Easing back here a little with, what else, comfort food—hush puppies of my childhood, based on a recipe by the peerless @mama_dips.  I prefer them oblong instead of round, although when I make them myself they turn out all sorts of shapes 🤪 Imperfect but amazing just as they are, probably some kind of metaphor for all of us making it through this year. (Also good with miso butter, not sure where that fits in the metaphor though.) Big hugs to everyone, I’ve missed you 🙏🏼

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