I’m not sure what your kitchen looks like, but mine is packed and overflowing with various kitchen gadgets — many of which were either purchased for me or inherited. That made this month’s Recipe Redux theme pretty complicated: treasured cookware, meaning something passed on to us from our favorite relatives. It’s a rare, rare meal I make that doesn’t involve something from my Grandma’s kitchen, specifically…
Read moreIf you pressed your ear against the window’s of my house hoping to see what Josh and I fight about, (well, for starts you need a new hobby, my friend) you’d be pretty bored with what you heard. 99% of the time, what we fight about is food. I spend a ridiculous amount of time planning a weekly menu, making the grocery list, and ensuring we have enough snacks to not gnaw our own hands off while Josh spends a normal human amount of…
Read moreIf you regularly read my blog and pay a medium amount of attention, you’ve probably noticed that I don’t eat eggs very often. It’s not that I won’t eat eggs, but just that the idea of eggs can really creep me out. They’re one of those foods that I’ll eat when I specifically want them and never just because they’re in front of me (I wish I was like that with chips and cookies, am I right?). Well lately,…
Read moreSomeone mentioned last week that mangoes are now in season, which instantly made me want a huge pile of mango salsa. I dreamt about mangoes for days until I finally made it to the grocery store — only to find out that they didn’t get the memo on the whole “mango season” thing. Definitely slim pickins on mangos. In fact, at first I thought they didn’t even have mangos, since they didn’t look at all what…
Read moreI know for most people, tofu is to be avoided. It has a weird texture without much inherent taste, and it’s made from soy. I never fell into that category of tofu haters – I’ve been a tofu lover since day 1. Stir fried, baked, even made into chocolate pie, I’ll eat tofu pretty much anyway you throw it at me. Josh is perhaps a little more normal and has long believed that tofu is weird, so I made it one of my life’s…
Read moreThe other week when I had the worst cold of my life, all I wanted in the world was my mom’s chicken noodle soup she made for me when I was young. The real stars of the soup were the homemade noodles. They were thick like dumplings and so comforting, whether you were sick or not. I texted my mom to tell her how much I was craving those noodles, and she responded with “Just make them yourself. Just egg + flour”. Seriously?…
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