Hallabong Marmalade Chocolates

Hallabong Marmalade Chocolates

So, what happened was, I had this post all written up and saved in my drafts, ready to go up for White Day, on March 14th, with some minor final edits. Shortly before that day arrived, some major stuff went down in my personal life, 

Hallabong Orange Persian Love Cake

Hallabong Orange Persian Love Cake

“What are you doing now?” B enjoys roasting me about my many kitchen experiments. It’s partly cultural weirdness — the things I do in the kitchen on even an ordinary day don’t always resemble what he grew up watching his mother do — and partly 

Maesil Ice Cream

Maesil Ice Cream

I’ve already gone on and on about maesil before, but to briefly recap, maesil are small green fruit that grow on maehwa trees, an East Asian relative of apricot and plum trees. We are lucky enough to have some maesil trees in our front garden, 

Crown Daisy Doenjang-guk: A Light Summer Soup With a Green Herbal Kick

Crown Daisy Doenjang-guk: A Light Summer Soup With a Green Herbal Kick

I am a fiend for soup and stews. I have a theory that there are two types of people in this world: those who eat ramen for the noodles and those who eat ramen for the broth. I fall into the latter category. I think 

Tomato Garlic Scapes Tart and Summer on the Farm

Tomato Garlic Scapes Tart and Summer on the Farm

  When I was 21, the poet I was working for at the time graciously arranged for me to spend a portion of the summer at a writer’s residency on a small organic farm in Wisconsin. It was late June, the heat of summer, and