番茄蛋 (Fried Eggs & Tomatoes)

番茄蛋 = one of my favorite dishes. My grandma used to make it for me whenever I had a bad day, or if she just felt like being awesome (which was often). I unfortunately never thought to learn how to cook from her and I was craving it the other day so I scoured a …

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窩蛋牛肉飯 (Eggs & Beef Over Rice)

My parents were pretty worried that I was going to starve to death in grad school, or that I would die of malnutrition because I wouldn’t have time to make food for myself. Hence, they alerted me of the wonder that is known as rice cooker meals. (And what Asian household is complete without a …

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Apple Cinnabread

Two years ago, I was hanging out with Rachel & Jaclyn in LA (shortly after we graduated from UC Davis!) and we decided to recreate Woodstocks’ Apple Cinnabread.

The details of this are now extremely fuzzy, but I’m going to try to include a rough/vague impression of what we used. (Compliments to Jaclyn. …

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Candied Garlic Chicken

We were exercising the whole “cook with ingredients you already have at home” thing, so we decided to make this! We were completely winging it in terms of the quantities since there wasn’t an actual recipe to follow, but I think this turned out pretty effing amazing. *-* Not to brag or anything. (We were …

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something to look forward to

Take 3!

I made them on Friday night minus the lemon juice because I forgot to get that, but they turned out fine. They have since been devoured, and Hamidah is pretty sad about this. We were going to make them yesterday, but Igor kidnapped me to Starbucks to proofread his personal statement since I’m …

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