I learned recently that the word for celebrating lunar near year in Vietnamese is “an Tet,” which translates to “eat the New Year” (or more humanly “eating in the new year”). I think I might have had a hot pot during grad school and I went to the festival when I lived in New York,…
I found out this week that my maternal grandmother died at 44 years old. My mom had just turned seven the month before. Her other siblings were eleven, four, and one. They had some help from family members for a year or two, but after that my mom was in charge of cooking for the…
I was complaining to a friend this week about how all the vegetarian recipes I’ve made recently taste people who are diets trying to pretend they’ve made something good. Christy was surprised to hear this because she’s started cooking vegan this year and has had some really delicious recipes. Me: please share your secrets with me!…
My mother makes this and it’s one of my favorites of all sweet breads. It’s very moist (almost like bread pudding) and not-too sweet. My mom tells me she adapted a banana bread recipe with butternut squash and used less sugar. I pretend it’s healthy.
I’m over the moon right now. I decided to celebrate my last day of winter break by making the ‘stone cakes’ recipe that Eva gave me on my last weekend in Zürich (it’s translated ‘cake,’ but it’s more bread-like). It has to be one of my favorite breads ever, but, to be fair, I rarely come across…
Over winter break I was catching up with family and they were asking me about Pittsburgh and my general life. I told them I rarely go out and usually just bring a lunch & dinner to studio (since I’m usually there for 12 hours). So what do you make? I reflect on my semester and the meals…
Game changer, guys. I learned how to make my favorite food: Bread. I’m now slightly more confident I can make Eva’s delicious Stone bread recipe that I enjoyed all summer.
Terribly-easy-but-fancy looking recipe. Not particularly healthy (not at all), but I have reduced the sugar a lot from the AllRecipes original and thought it was still sinfully delicious. It’s one of the most popular recipes on the whole website. Give it a try with these simple alterations:
I’ve been cooking a lot more since being in school. It’s nice! This recipe was originally for shrimp, but the salmon was on salmon was on sale so I subbed it in. Still good! It probably just depends on which you like better. Salmon (or shrimp!) Lo Mein with Snow Peas (Adapted from RealSimple) 8 ounces lo…
