To All the Meals I've Cooked Before
An open love letter to all the meals I've lovingly prepared and enjoyed
For me, the best part of celebrating Lunar New Year is hands down the food (the lucky red pockets are a *very* close second). My extended family gets together at my grandma's house and we all dress in red (a colour that signifies good luck—it's supposed to scare off the bad spirits!) to celebrate. Every…
I saw the movie Parasite a couple weeks ago, and it was one of those movies that really stuck with me. I kept replaying certain scenes in my head - in particular, the glorious ram-don scene. The high-low contrast between the cheap packet of noodles and the expensive top sirloin was such a brilliant way…
Eggplant is one of my latest cooking obsessions. I’ve been trying to eat less meat in 2020, and as a result I’ve been exploring more veggies to change things up for my weeknight meals. Prior to this recipe, I’d only ever used globe eggplant (aka American eggplant), and I didn’t realize how many different varieties…
When I was living in Munich a couple years ago with my best friends, there was an Asian restaurant below our studio apartment that had the *best* Thai red curry. I wasn't big into cooking back then, so pretty much every single night that we were home, we'd pop downstairs to pick up an order…
Kimchi Jigae, aka Kimchi Stew, is one of my all-time favourite comfort foods when it’s cold outside. I love going to Buk Chang Dong Soon Tofu in Toronto for their big steaming bowls of stew, and this recipe is my at-home take on their kimchi stew with ingredients readily available at my local grocery store.…
I’ve written before about how congee is one of my all-time favourite comfort foods because it’s so versatile and so easy to make. You can use just about any meat or seafood to flavour it and all you need are a few super basic ingredients (rice, ginger and water) to whip it together. I love…
In cold weather, I always crave big bowls of spicy, slurpy soup to warm me up. I love having tom kha gai soup when I go out for Thai food: it's essentially tom yum soup with coconut milk and the spicy, tangy, creamy flavours hit all the right notes for me. I recently found tom…
I make my mom's Chinese fried rice almost weekly, whenever I need a quick meal and want to clean out the fridge. It wasn't until recently that I realized I could add my favourite Korean flavours into my go-to meal, and it was a serious game changer. With the addition of two classic Korean ingredients…
Jap Chae is one of the first Korean dishes I learned how to make - it’s something I had at restaurants countless times (I’m obsessed with the chewy texture of the noodles!) but it had never occurred to me to try making it at home until I scrolled past a homemade recipe for it on my IG feed. Beyond the noodles, jap chae is really just a stir fry recipe at its core, and it’s surprisingly easy to make at home.
Stir-fried cheung fun (rice noodle rolls) is something I grew up eating for brunch or a light meal on weekends - my mom would whip some up as a treat for me and my brother whenever she had a chance to pick some up from the Chinese grocery store. I have a lot of fond memories of eating it in pyjamas on lazy Saturdays, and cooking it always makes me feel nostalgic.
To All the Meals I've Cooked Before 