Homemade Creations

Feeding touring band: Part 1

You all should be very excited. I finally got a smart phone. You know what that means? a large amount…

13 years ago

Random Foods

A compilation of food I've made/tried over the past couple weeks. But nothing worth writing a while entry about. Random dinner…

13 years ago

My First Copper River Salmon BBQ

So after I heard copper river salmon was going for cheap (I read it was $6.99 at QFC), I really…

13 years ago

Morel Hunting – my first mushroom foraging adventure

When I'm not in the kitchen or stuffing myself at my Mom's or some restaurant, I'm usually on a trail…

13 years ago

Red Velvet Cake – gourmet cake makin’ with Nikki

Red Velvet Cake with Caramel Pastry Cream and Frangelico Ganache So Nikki's roommate's birthday was coming up and she needed…

13 years ago

My first roasted chicken

I have so much to share but very little time to write. I'm not sure how to resolve this. I'm…

13 years ago

Holiday Fun – On my own and with my mom!

Well it's definitely that time of the year...I start to build my winter coat (somehow it came on early this…

13 years ago

Roomie Tasty Triumph – Real Thai Lesson

Since I've been transitioning between job duties and began volunteering, I haven't been cooking much. I've become dependent on snacks,…

14 years ago

Let ’em Eat Cake!

Recently, a new acquaintance of mine celebrated his 25th birthday. We kicked off the celebration with a pre-season Sounders game…

14 years ago

Happy St. Patty’s Day!

Oh Ireland...how I miss you... Hands down, I could move to Ireland in a heart beat. At the last minute…

14 years ago

Tasty triumphs (and half food fiasco) for weeknight dinners

It's been quite a while...I apologize. But here we go! I've been on a health food binge lately since I'm…

14 years ago

Chuc Mung Nam Moi & Kung Hei Fat Choi!

That is to say...Happy New Year in Vietnamese and Chinese (my two heritages). This entry comes about a week too…

14 years ago

How to Make Wine (Part 4): Bottling

One word: MESSY Sanitizing and cleaning 30 bottles of wine...is definitely not a good time. So i procrastinated. And ended…

14 years ago

Jan. 10 – Jan. 16 Food Fiascos and Tasty Triumphs

Long story short: I didn't cook much this week. But here you go! It's a Trader Joe's salmon roullette stuffed…

14 years ago

My first Pacific Northwest Cooking and Recipes Meetup

I've recently joined a club: The Pacific Northwest Cooking and Recipes Meetup and went to the first meeting today. It…

14 years ago

Jan. 1 – Jan. 9 – Tasty triumphs and food fiascos

This week was quite successful in my opinion, besides starting the new year off with a disappointing meal at Claim…

14 years ago

How to Make Wine (Part 3): Stabilising and clearing

Probably the least exciting part of making wine. This is where I lost part of my allure to making my…

14 years ago

December’s food fiascos and tasty triumphs

Happy New Year! Since I just started this blog, I'm going to include some earlier food adventures from the month…

14 years ago

How to make wine (Part 2: Secondary Fermentation)

So after a week, we (minus Meghan because she's too busy getting sunburned in New Zealand - plus my friend…

14 years ago

How to make Wine (Part 1: Primary Fermentation)

Because this is my most adventurous creation..I finally had enough motivation to start writing this stuff down. Sorry for the…

14 years ago