Thai Meatball and Egg Drop Blorp

This recipe is from Buzzfeed's 12 Recipes You Should Try This Month, called Thai Meatball and Egg Drop Soup.  The meatballs are made with ground turkey, which you can also use for the Vietnamese caramelized pork I made in a previous post (so, you know, Vietnamese caramelized turkey).  We bought 3 pounds of turkey and used …

Uh-oh I’m falling in love with Asian bowls

Yeah this is a problem.  I've eaten so much rice in the past few days. All right, this recipe is from Buzzfeed's 17 Healthy Grain Bowls You Should Make for Dinner, called Vietnamese Caramelized Pork Bowls.  The recipe is pretty cheap; the fish sauce is probably the most expensive ingredient, but you don't use much …

Dining Hall Red Thai Curry

We bought a 4 oz jar of red Thai curry paste for a recipe about 6 months ago, but only used about a tablespoon of it, so we made this recipe to use up the rest of the paste.  It was...mediocre.  We wanted to make it vegetarian, so we skipped adding the chicken, and maybe …

Thai iced tea with bubbles <3

I am a sucker for bubble tea.  (If you also enjoy bubble tea, YOU WILL GET THAT PUN.)  Regardless, I probably spend $15/week on bubble tea, which is way too much when I could easily go out for a pretty good $15 meal.  So, I thought I'd try making my own bubble tea. For the …

Salty savory Japanese comfort food and some thoughts about soba

Yeah you know your mouth is already watering, so let's cut right to it.  This recipe is Chicken Soba Soup with Spinach and Miso, and damn it is the perfect thing for cold winter days.  I basically could've been sipping the broth while sitting at a kotatsu with Mount Fuji visible through the window.  The recipe …

Pressure cooker stock

This is something I've mentioned in past posts, and it's seriously a lifesaver - or at the very least, a wallet-saver and a my-kitchen-garbage-smells-really-bad-saver.  What is this magic, you ask?  It's called making your own stock in a pressure cooker. If you don't have a pressure cooker, I guess you're out of luck. The recipe …

More fall pizza because I guess I can’t stop

It's been, what, a week since I made that other fall pizza?  Whatever.  I bought twice as many butternut squash as I needed for some other recipe and I wanted to use the leftovers before they went bad.  Food waste is a real and pressing issue in this country.  That being said, butternut squash freezes …

Coquettish Croquettes: A “Fifty Shades of Chicken” Valentine Dinner

Could that title possibly have more words in it?  Jeez. As I've mentioned before, being a poor grad student means packing a lot of lunches.  How better than to make an easy lunch than by purchasing a rotisserie chicken and shredding it to pieces?  You can make chicken salad sandwiches, put cold shredded chicken in …

Basically Takeout Honey Sesame Chicken

This is one of those recipes where I learn something new every time I make it and it keeps getting better.  We've been making this recipe for about a year and a half, and it is always tasty.  The name of the dish is Baked Honey Sesame Chicken, and I don't know where I found …

POWER SALAD RAAAAA

As Instagram-y and Women Laughing Alone with Salad as it sounds, I actually enjoy Mason jar salads.  They're really convenient to take for lunch, since I can just layer in the stuff and shove it in my lunchbox without thinking about it too much.  And when I spend all day thinking, the last thing I want …