Mom’s Hóng Shāo Ròu 红烧肉 Red Braised Pork

My mom’s hong shao rou – she made these a lot growing up and also tries to make it for me everytime I fly back home to visit!! My favorite combo was just this braised pork and white rice, drizzled with some extra of that kind of the sauce!

3 easy & delicious VEGAN meal ideas

Sharing three of my go-to vegan meal ideas – fresh, simple and YUMMY. Featuring – a Greek-inspired quinoa salad, a chickpea “tuna salad” sandwich, and baked tofu with a yummy kale salad & oven fries. No recipes, just ingredient suggestions!

quick vegan tacos de papas recipe (?)

Last week, I made delicious vegan tacos de papas, or potato tacos, with my lovely friend Darsh!

Sweet Potato Gnocchi (recipe+video)

Natalie and I made sweet potato gnocchi! As many people do, we combined recipes, we improvised, we made judgment calls, and the result was pretty damn satisfying.

pizza party!

we made homemade pizza in a cast iron skillet for our 1 year anniversary!

veggie stew recipe

a haiku about the veggie stew I made recently:

stew, not chili – yum!

it makes you feel less illy

mmm very hearty

Brown butter shiitake pesto pasta

This isn’t a recipe. This is me wanting pasta and then looking in the fridge, seeing what I have and working with what I find.

How to make a killer ~vegetable soup~

I didn’t take this picture. I WISH I took this picture, though. // source: Webvilla via Unsplash

Okay, it’s about time I sat down and wrote about this goddamn soup, because I’ve been making it for months and it’s life-changing. 

How to: ravioli, shakshuka + honey sriracha broccoli

It always starts like this. I come home hungry and look around in the fridge for potential dinner options.

PASTA BOWLS AND FRIED RICE: Skeletons

PASTA BOWLS

A great pasta bowl consists of some sort of pasta (obviously), some vegetables, some protein source, and perhaps a sauce.