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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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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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red cabbage slaw with peanuts and dukkah

July 31, 2018

We have lately entered the phase that I assume is a rite of passage for all parents, where at least part of our dinner a couple times a week is "whatever our toddler didn't eat."  (This is especially because one of his favorite new phrases is "No-no," which he uses often and with delight.)  All things considered, it's actually a fortunate turn of ...

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curried couscous with roasted cauliflower

June 27, 2018

As it turns out, one of the happier features of law school and, now, law firm life is the dependable occurrence of free lunches at least once a week--whether for a talk, or a deposition, or just inexplicably placed in a breakroom and abandoned for three hours (that's okay, I'll still eat it). As someone who will happily consume anything that's ...

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salt & pepper garlic fries with jalapeno & cilantro

February 23, 2018

The calendar tells me that it has been more than one month since I was last here, which feels both much shorter and much longer than the reality (as always seems to be the case).  The biggest event of the last month for us, though, is definitely this:  We are now officially the proud parents of a bona fide, honest-to-goodness toddling toddler.  Our ...

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super savory greens with lap cheong and garlic

December 6, 2017

We are now solidly into the magical stretch between Thanksgiving and Christmas, that no-holds-barred span of weeks that I typically use to indulge all of my wildest cookie and hot cocoa and cinnamon roll whims, and yet, much to my dismay, I've spent most of it so far thinking about, not chocolate or candy canes or marshmallows, but vegetables.  In ...

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potatoes with sugar snaps, pickled shallots, & dill

June 7, 2017

Judging from the calendar, we are in the thick of picnic season, or for me, toss-everything-with-mayonnaise-and-maybe-eat-it-at-a-picnic-but-probably-just-straight-from-the-fridge season.  My last post notwithstanding, I almost didn't realize it; after years in New York, where I spent the first third-to-half of each year in an intense and unceasing ...

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creamy broccoli salad with almonds & raisins

May 24, 2017

Last weekend we took our first big trip with B3 in tow, up to Berkeley for my brother's graduation.  It wasn't until we were on our way back, winding our way through the mountains on the last stretch of the I-5, that I realized how much Los Angeles has started to feel like home.  This little ham can probably take most of the credit for that (isn't ...

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pear, parmesan, & balsamic salad

December 6, 2016

Our Christmas tree is up!  It's the first real, live, non-plastic tree to make an appearance in our household.  We chose it in about five seconds flat last Saturday with babe in tow, in the signature haste of panicky new parents who are still not very good at this "taking the baby out into the world" thing.  (Luke, meanwhile, was just passed out ...

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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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