Miso butter bath

Ever since I tried Mott St’s pan-seared mushrooms in a pool of miso butter, I’ve been borderline obsessed with recreating this taste of nutty and silky nirvana. When Chicago Magazine finally published the miso butter recipe this past year, I...

Vietnam is for dreamers.

When I first visited Vietnam 10 years ago, I experienced a bit of shock transitioning from two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in the middle of the mountains and rice fields of Northern Thailand to the lively traffic and...

Weekend in the City: Chicago Baby Shower Cravings

One of my best friends is going to become a mom in a matter of months! A bunch of future aunties traveled to Chicago to celebrate this milestone with baby shower games, laughter, and a whole bunch of food and...

Kare Kare, Sige Sige

I’ve always been nervous to cook kare-kare because it’s the last recipe I partially wrote down from my Lola in 2016 before I really noticed that her health was worsening. My Lola was on a walker at this point and...

Got noods?

Landed in Portland yesterday! In the city that seems to have everything as long as you’re craving, leave it to me to escape the East Coast only to seek a Greenwich Village craving of spicy hand-pulled noodles a la Xian...