It's the last installment in B2's birthday series! You can see parts one (hurricane popcorn!) and two (chicken katsu plate lunch!) here. These babes aren't something that B2 actually ever requested I make -- I think I mentioned homemade malasadas once, way back, and B2 chewed on the idea and said it just sounded like too much work to make at ...
hawaii
chicken katsu, mac salad & rice: a birthday hawaii plate lunch!
"Chicken katsu, katsu sauce, one scoop of mac salad, and two scoops of rice!" These are the precise (and enthusiastically recited) makings of Bowl #2's dream plate lunch-slash-birthday-request -- shatteringly crisp Panko-crusted chicken thighs, juicy inside and deftly sliced, zealously dunked in a smoky-sweet-tart katsu sauce (mysteriously made, ...
hurricane popcorn
Right around this time two years ago, I christened this baby-blog with a little birthday series for Bowl #2 -- they were something like my third, fourth, and fifth posts, and they were recipes for some of his favorite foods from back home in Hawaii. With another one of his trips around the sun approaching (and because I can never have enough food ...
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, ...
