NYC-based food blog featuring [mostly healthy] recipes, restaurant recommendations and how-to's
Tahini - ground sesame paste - is basically the peanut butter of the Middle East and western Asia. Instead of sweet applications, it is traditionally found in savory dishes like hummus, baba ganoush, and drizzled atop crunchy falafel. In the last couple of years, tahini has made a name for itself in the U.S. too…
Even Better With an Egg is a series dedicated to my personal aspiration to turn every meal into brunch. When I first thought of this series, I tried to recall dishes I’ve had in the past that could’ve used a little extra oomph. Garlic tomato fried rice from Bunker Vietnamese came to mind almost immediately. I remembered…
I tend to shy away from cocktails that contain various liquors, flavorings, juices, etc. Opting for simplicity instead, I believe the secret to making a great drink - like a great dish - is using high-quality ingredients. There is just no need to hunt down ten obscure items to make one cocktail, amiright? For this, I…
In the practice of food styling, props are meant to complement the recipe, build a story, and make the food look as delectable as possible. Typically, the recipe is chosen first and the styling decisions are made after. But, once in a while, a very special ‘prop’ comes along and begs to be found a…
When transitioning to a mostly plant-based diet, there’s this unspoken misconception that you’ll be stuck eating salads three times a day for the rest of your life. This pretty much sounds like a death sentence - but, the more you get into it, the more creative you become. When I first started modifying my diet…
Things on toast have been having a bit of a moment lately. First, there was the infamous $4 toast in San Francisco, and who could forget all that avocado-smeared toast, like, everywhere? But the truth is, Italians have been doing it for millenia (this is a guesstimate - I’m not a historian) and it’s called…
