Last updated on April 8th, 2019 When my brother was a kid, he convinced my aunt that he was allergic to “green stuff”…aka salad. But he most definitely said “green stuff” which should have been a big red flag that he was full of crap. I’m not sure what’s more unbelievable: the fact that my aunt bought…
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Fava Bean Soup with Lemon Crème Fraîche & Thyme Olive Oil
Last updated on April 8th, 2019 I recently read recipe development instructions that stated: “should not include ingredients that are too obscure or aren’t available for the average cook, such as cumin.” Cumin! In a pinch, I’m pretty sure I’ve picked up cumin at 7-11 or the drugstore at midnight (sometimes you need tacos, guys). Living in California with a…
Gluten-free Chestnut Flour Pasta Ravioli with Goat Cheese and Spring Vegetables
Last updated on September 26th, 2020 I’m notorious for using every square inch of surface area within reach while I’m cooking. Including the couch. Nothing is off-limits when good food is involved. When I first started making ravioli from scratch (pre gluten-free days), counter space in our 26-square foot kitchen was limited. Finished baking sheets of fresh ravioli spread…
Tomato Eggplant Stew over Parmesan Polenta
Last updated on April 8th, 2019 My mom is an expert at making efficient dinners with lots of leftovers. I’m terrible at leftovers – both at making enough food to have leftovers and, on the off chance I’m successful at that, at then coming up with something we won’t tire of after the second or third spaghetti lunch. This tomato eggplant stew…
DIY Sushi at Home
Last updated on September 26th, 2020 Back in college, you would never have guessed that 10 years down the line, I’d have fallen so hard into a sushi love affair to the point of making DIY sushi at home WHENEVER POSSIBLE. This infatuation with sushi and its rhythmic process make it an obvious choice for dabbling with…
Buttermilk Fried Tofu Tacos with Jalapeno Lime Yogurt Cabbage Slaw
Last updated on April 8th, 2019 These Buttermilk Fried Tofu Tacos are for those days you really need comfort food. Like Monday, for example. The day after Lucas left for China. The day the freshly hung front dining room curtains ripped out of the wall. Before we point fingers, it’s not Lucas’s fault. He rushed to get my double curtain…
Shiitake Miso Soup with Silken Tofu
Last updated on August 29th, 2020 I have a habit of inviting people over for dinner, but then making them wait over an hour to eat while I prepare it. I’m imagining all of my hungry friends shaking their heads yes in unison. One day I’ll get the timing right (as in, I’ll stop waiting until…
Oboro Tofu: Silken Tofu Curds
Last updated on July 6th, 2020 Is there one restaurant dish that you could eat for dinner every night? For me, that’s the oboro tofu from Eiji that Angi introduced me to a few months back. Many food-loving folks in SF are probably shaking their heads yup right along with me. It’s a dish that comforts with its…
Apple and Sausage Cornbread Stuffing with Sage {gluten-free}
Last updated on November 27th, 2019 Even though I’ve dreamed of city life since I was just a kid hoping to one day make it big in the movies, I’m a small-town country girl at heart. I like to think I’ve learned a bit of city street smarts over the years since I moved away from…
Homemade Gluten-Free Chickpea Pasta
Last updated on April 8th, 2019 Back in August, I fortuitously met Phi of Princess Tofu at a Bay Area food blogger’s picnic on the very same day I’d decided to make a pot of silken oboro tofu at home without a recipe (more on that to come). I selfishly prodded with questions of tofu-making, while scarfing…
Halloween Jack Skellington Ricotta Olive Tarts
Last updated on April 8th, 2019 Halloween struts in at just the right time. With some sort of time warp, it’s magically the end of October and I’m on the brink of losing my mind. Anyone else with me? I poured a scoop of cat food into the detergent slot of the washing machine at…
Caprese fettuccine with Italian chicken sausage
Last updated on April 8th, 2019 This wasn’t supposed to be today. No – today was supposed to be a two-part dessert to use up our fruiting meyer lemon tree. Then sometimes things just happen. Things like your fall wardrobe barely fitting coupled with the realization that the last three recipes you’ve shared were desserts. And as you…
Oven-baked pineapple fried rice with cashews and tofu
Last updated on July 7th, 2020 I’m learning to measure my productivity on different scales depending on the day. It’s easy to feel accomplished on hyperactive get-it-done days, when tasks crossed off a to-do list display my success. Visible outcomes. These usually come dressed as Saturday house-wide cleaning sessions, or multi-course homemade Sunday brunches. Photographing a recipe or writing a new post…
Black bean and veggie tortilla pizza
Last updated on August 29th, 2020 We make a lot of quesadillas in our house. Tortillas? Check. Cheese? Check. Random fillers from the bottom of the fridge? Boom – dinner. Lately, though, we’ve got a different quick and simple weeknight recipe on repeat. This black bean and veggie tortilla pizza recipe is so darn fresh and…
Ginger zucchini noodle egg drop soup
Last updated on July 7th, 2020 Zoodles! Oodles and oodles of zoodles! You know what’s got me so fired up over here? We grew a zucchini! In a bed now covering our pig roast pit. An enormous feat for the girl with the black thumb who has killed two rosemary plants and a few succulents. Indestructible plants, my big…
Chicken pesto zucchini noodles: Introducing OmieBox with a weekly healthy lunch menu
Last updated on April 8th, 2019 My mom packed me a turkey sandwich for lunch every day of elementary school. And every day I threw my sandwich in the trash. I’m not sure why I never told her to just stop packing the sandwich. I could have saved her a fortune on bread and lunch…
Texas BBQ pulled pork quesadillas with vinegar slaw
Last updated on April 8th, 2019 The neighbors got suspicious when they peered through the fence and noticed Lucas and Mikey digging a 4-foot deep 3×5-foot pit in our backyard. By offering an invitation, I assured them that we were planning to roast a pig, not bury a body. For my last 20-something birthday, we invited all our…
Southwestern black bean spaghetti with skinny avocado crema
Last updated on April 8th, 2019 Are you way too busy to cook and just need a quick and healthy meal for your weekly rotation? Us too. With Lucas’s Kickstarter launching in 3 weeks and my obsession with optimizing my upcoming blog makeover, our weekly meal planning has been a life saver. Without it, we’d both forget to think about dinner…
Recipe Rewind: Vegetable & tofu Thai curry
Last updated on June 29th, 2020 You know that feeling when you look in the back of your closet and find a forgotten favorite shirt that fell off a hanger and has been buried in a dark corner for several months? A) How could I have forgotten that beloved shirt? And B) Woo! It’s like Christmas in…
Grilled pineapple tofu skewers with spicy mango BBQ sauce
Last updated on August 29th, 2020 When it feels like summer in the Bay Area, you need to grab on and relish in it as much as possible until it inevitably disappears behind the fog again. With a sunny holiday weekend approaching, there’s no better way to celebrate than by lighting up the grill. And…
Guilt-free shrimp and veggie fettuccine with cauliflower alfredo
Last updated on April 8th, 2019 Raise your hand if your favorite pasta dish as a child was creamy fettuccine alfredo. Did your house exclusively refer to fettucine alfredo as “Sarah’s favorite pasta” like mine? I’d order it every time I found it featured on a dinner menu and I’d throw in some shrimp for good measure….
Zucchini arepas: zucchini corn cakes with cheese, salsa, and guacamole
Last updated on July 6th, 2020 When I first went off to college, I’d regularly call my mom from the grocery store to ask, “in what part of the store would I find _____ ?” Anything from salsa to olives to pizza sauce. For me, this was the adult manifestation of watching my parents drive from one place to the next without…
Chipotle avocado spread
Last updated on April 16th, 2019 I’m coming clean about my most annoying habit, but making it up to you by offering up this spicy chipotle avocado spread. Smear a smidgen on your next sandwich and you’ll have to forgive me for the sins I’m about to own up to. You know that person who…
Recipe Rewind: Butternut squash soup with parmesan crisps
Last updated on August 29th, 2020 Recipe Rewind March 25, 2014: As my regular readers know, during the week I shop and plan meals as though the two of us were a family of four. With this strategy, we can have piping hot leftovers for lunch the next day without any extra cooking effort. This butternut…
