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Oatmeal raisin cookie baked oatmeal.
Pinch dishes from The Fortynine Studio; plates by Akiko Graham from The-Commons. For the first time in recent memory, easing back into the “real world” after the holidays hasn’t been as gruesome as I...
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Swiss chard & quinoa cakes, with garlic yogurt // a Lodge giveaway!
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...
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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...
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Mango pomelo sago, with haupia.
I’ve written a lot about how much I love the food in Hong Kong. I’ll probably write more even after this. I’m a food-oriented person to begin with (I know, shocker) and the places I’ve been and the...
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Kimchi potato salad (& regular too!)
So Bowl #2 and I have just come to accept that we’re the kind of people whose well-being depends a little pitifully on warm weather. I feel like that should have been obvious to two people from Hawaii...
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Hurricane popcorn // a Hawaii series!
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...
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Spicy ahi poke, avocado & rice “parfaitinis.”
It’s our wedding menu! Over the next few weeks I’ll be sharing homemade versions of some of our reception eats, our cake, and our wedding favors. You can see the recipe for one of our cocktail hour...
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Coffee-candied macadamia nuts + a giveaway!
It’s almost here! We’re actually, really, truly getting married this Saturday and I’m so excited I can’t sit still. This is the last post in this series on our reception food, and after that I’ll...
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Charred corn with miso butter, bacon & garlic scapes.
Last Saturday, when we were still puttering around in the throes of jet lag, a good friend dropped by to help ease us back into the real world. She belongs to that lucky (for us) class of friends...
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Fig, rose, & almond granola parfaits.
Figs are here! We finally had our first figs of the year this weekend, and words cannot adequately express how excited I am. I feel like my first fig sighting is always one of the best days of the...
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Bibim-bar! (a bibimbap party)
We had a bibimbap party this weekend! I don’t know whether it’s a function of living in frenetic New York, or having a lot of lawyer friends who are forever sucked back into the office on weekends or...
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Hot honeycomb candy
I can’t decide what I’m more excited about sharing this morning. This honeycomb candy, feathery-crisp with a subtle heat, dunked gleefully into dark chocolate, and perfectly Halloween-color-schemed,...
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Potato, garlic, & leek soup
Every once in a blue moon, usually when we’re just about to fall asleep, B2 likes to come up with ideas for things I should cook next. I use “ideas” loosely, because it’s mostly a sleepy,...
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Thanksgiving leftovers “red beans”& coconut rice
I’m boring when it comes to leftovers. (Strategy: Remove from refrigerator and eat. Alternatively, freeze, forget about, then find three months later and still eat.) My mom, on the other hand, makes...
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Peppermint mochi
Oh man, it’s been not-enough-hours-in-the-day days around here lately. Most of the time it is safe to ignore me when I say that because I spend about half my waking hours huffing to B2 about the...
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Miso-glazed scallops
It’s my dad’s birthday today! My brother and I are patting each other on the back because we enrolled him in a Beer of the Month club for his birthday this year and saved ourselves him from getting...
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Oyakodon
Hi friends! Happy 2016! How are you faring and/or eating this week? I’ve been ping-ponging between something like I must consume the healthiest superfood in the world, my stomach is drowning in...
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Chicken & apple salad with honey mustard vinaigrette (and LA!)
We’re back! How was the rest of your February? I won’t bore you with most of the details of mine, which was mostly a mish-mash of work and other not-super-fun things, but B2 and I did top off our...
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“Sukiyaki” soba noodle soup
A few months ago, a couple of friends introduced us to a soba restaurant in Midtown called Soba Totto, and introduced me to a world of wonders. Soba noodles are fast working their way up my list of...
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Bubble tea oatmeal, hot and cold
Yep, it’s true. I went and made oatmeal out of bubble tea. (Or bubble tea out of oatmeal?) I have no idea how it happened. The idea landed in my lap when I was making, not any other kind of kooky...
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