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hush puppies

October 4, 2020

Sometimes the simplest recipes are the best balms. Spending more time at home over this last year, we've been cooking nonstop but mostly just the homey, five-ingredient type meals that come together pretty fast and last us for a few nights. Things like fried kimchi and an over-easy egg on rice for lunch (that's right, I'm even at "lazy man's ...

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blank canvas breakfast hash, and life lately

April 30, 2020

Well, life has changed a little bit in the six weeks since I posted here last. I've struggled a bit with what to write here given the gravity of everything that's going on around us. That I'm able to work from home, kiss B2 and cuddle my children (who laugh and shriek and run around and have no idea what's going on), feels deeply unfair in ...

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red curry kabocha soup

December 4, 2019

This is the second in a series of posts in partnership with KitchenAid! You can find the first here. I'm knocking on wood madly as I say this, but we may--just may--be in the home stretch of our renovations. Our KitchenAid appliances are on the way, the kitchen has not only floors, not only base cabinets, but countertops and upper cabinets ...

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honey sesame corn pudding

November 14, 2019

I am new to corn pudding, but what I lack in history I make up for in fervor. There's a special place in my heart for those dishes that look like sides but are really not so far from dessert, sneaking into the party early (extra marshmallows on the sweet potato casserole, please) and if ever there was one, this is it: The delicate sunshine of ...

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sriracha & roasted broccoli pesto

November 6, 2019

When we were considering whether to renovate, I remembered that Adrianna at A Cozy Kitchen had a great experience partnering with KitchenAid, and reached out with all fingers crossed to see if KitchenAid might be interested in collaborating here, too. Imagine my delight when the team said yes! It’s been one of my dream brands for such a long time, ...

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stir-fried lettuce bowl with ginger fried rice and egg

July 27, 2019

We have had two big developments of our summer so far. One is that I went back to work (and we can skip discussing that) but the other is much more exciting: We moved! Somehow some people in the world thought that it was okay for this pair of silly babies to actually, honest-to-goodness own a home. Now that we're done screaming in terror over the ...

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pork sung no knead bread

May 31, 2019

Well, I had all sorts of plans to post here more often while on magical maternity leave, but those plans seem to have manifested as three months of nothing but snuggling chubby baby cheeks (Clara now giggles sometimes when I do this and it’s the best, thing, ever) and chasing skinny manic toddlers. Oops. And so I’ve been sitting on this recipe ...

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shanghainese lion’s head meatballs, revisited

November 9, 2018

It’s two months of A Common Table giveaways!  From now until December, I’ll be sharing a recipe from the cookbook here and holding a giveaway of one of my favorite kitchen treasures used in the book every week on Instagram, and you’ll have a week to enter before the winner is announced, along with a new giveaway.  These lion's head meatballs are ...

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asian pear and jasmine crumbles

November 2, 2018

It’s two months of A Common Table giveaways!  From now until December, I’ll be sharing a recipe from the cookbook here and holding a giveaway of one of my favorite kitchen treasures used in the book every week on Instagram, and you’ll have a week to enter before the winner is announced, along with a new giveaway.  My earliest memories of Asian ...

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pappardelle with lamb ragu

October 19, 2018

I'm back!  It's the Friday before A Common Table ventures out in the world, therefore (1) the last Friday to preorder, if you like, and (2) the first Friday of a ton of giveaways of some of my most favorite things in the book over the next two months!  From now until December, I'll be sharing a recipe from the cookbook and a giveaway every Friday ...

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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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