Thank you, Bob’s Red Mill, for sponsoring this post! Hello from Cleveland! Where I’m jetlagged, car-less, and currently watching The Holiday. I’m here without Olive and Reuben because someone needs to watch the loaf and the loaf isn’t ready to be without her parents yet. I sleep at the best at my parents’ house so I’ve been finally catching up on sleep and then planning my big dim sum menu to celebrate my grandma’s birthday this weekend. I’ve never made this much homemade dim sum before, so wish me luck… Whenever I’m home for the holidays, I feel like all I want to do is relax, veg out, and al ..read more

Every spring I feel influenced to go out in search of the poster children of spring produce, rhubarb and the ever elusive… ramps. I spent a gajillion $$$ on two little bundles of ramps and made fried rice and noodles with them. They were just fine, green onions are probably better, but I’ll probably do this again every year because I don’t like feeling left out. However, my love of rhubarb is unwavering. We are planning for a little vegetable garden and I almost convinced Reuben to plant a rhubarb bush… fingers crossed I win this battle! Rhubarb is technically a vegetable, did you know that ..read more

I never thought I would say this… but I miss Little Rock! I’ve finally pulled together this round up of my trip to Little Rock, Arkansas with USA Rice and The Feedfeed  to share with you! Before landing in Little Rock I had never set foot in Arkansas and had zero expectations of what this trip would be like. I asked my Uber driver what food or dish Little Rock was known for and his answer was “Cheese Dip”. I asked if it was any different than queso… nope… but it’s just called cheese dip around here. GREAT. I ended up not eating any cheese dip at all and instead had the most wonderful ric ..read more

How is it practically August already?! It’s barely felt like summer in our part of the woods and it seems like Summer has bypassed us. Whenever I visit the farmers market the tomatos, squashes, berries, and stone fruits are telling me that it’s definitely summer somewhere! I’ve been stocking up on plums and all the varieties of pluots (plum and apricot hybrids) and eating them like candy. They are so delicious! Reuben also just discovered that he’s no longer allergic to peaches, so we will probably start buying all of those too! Maybe I’ll turn on the oven to make a peach pie just to warm the ..read more

You see that first photo up there? That’s actually a selfie I took this weekend, because I’ve most literally turned into a bun and got a nice tan. Jkkkkk, I just ate a lot of buns the last few days for the sake of “research” and feel very bun-like. I definitely didn’t get a tan because I’ve been mostly indoors since… forever. This weekend has been all sorts of wonderful and all sorts of crazy. My office gave me 2 days to work from home and bake a cake! Like, what?! I’ve been slaving away on this Great British Baking Show Final Showstopper caliber cake that’s inspired by the designs our office ..read more

Hi, hi! What's happening??! You ate a bunch of tomatoes and stone fruit over the week? It was actually warm enough where you are to go to the beach??! Wow. That sounds like the dream : ) Reuben and I had a pretty chill weekend. We watched a whole season of Weeds, stocked up on our asian sauce collection, picked up our Japanese knives from the knife sharpening store, and went grocery shopping. Pretty boring, pretty chill, but just wanted I wanted. Oh, and I washed a mountain of dishes that I accumulated from cooking lunch for my entire office. Gosh. It was super fun but it was so exhausting. M ..read more

Can we talk about how freaking easy it is to make clams??? Why haven't you told me?! Reuben and I recently realized that the seafood market by our house is actually really incredible, clean, and fresh. We've been missing out on all this great seafood for the last 2.5 years! Shame on us. I feel like Asian seafood markets can easily swing into 2 extremes. It could easily be a little scary with questionable food handling techniques and with less than stellar smells floating around. I'm too much of a food germ wimp to step into those places. BUT Seafood Center on Clement is awesome and smell ..read more

Gosh, I've been bad at this whole food blogging thing! Sorry I was absent for a while again. Life has been a little crazy. I feel like I say that once a month. As you probably know, I applied to be on The Great American Baking Show. That happened about 2 weeks ago and a bunch of crazy stuff has happened since then. Once I sent in my application, I took a deep breath and waited like 2 seconds. The next day I got a phone call that lead to another phone call, which then lead to a semi awkward facetime interview, and then all of a sudden I was preparing to do down to Los Angeles to audition in pe ..read more

Happy Saturday y'all! And hooray! for a glorious 3 day weekend! I hope you all have stellar plans for the weekend, even if it is just lounging around in your living room, wrapped up in a blanket like me. I just completed my first week of work at my new job.... and I am pooped. So I'm going to try to relax as much as I can this weekend. Reuben and I might go on an Oakland Beer adventure tomorrow (have you started following @beermeatsbread yet? ya should) and I might make a roast chicken. Might. I'm pretty content with keeping my physical energy usage to a minimum this weekend.  I'm j ..read more