It took me a long time to feel comfortable in the kitchen. I began to enjoy cooking sometime in college, but back then, I owned exactly two cookbo...
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I turned 29 this weekend, and it still feels weird to say that. I'm not sure when it happens, but sometime in your twenties, you start forgetting ...
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For the shrimp: 1 pound of shrimp 1/4 teaspoon of chipotle chili powder* 1/2 lime, squeezed 1 teaspoon of clementine zest (from 1/2 of a cle...
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When you live in California, sometimes you feel hours behind everyone else. Weirdly, we watch a recording of the ball dropping in Times Square on ...
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There's a common sentiment among certain men I know that salad is not a meal. Though I whole-heartedly believe that salad IS a meal, and can be a ...
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When I first started blogging, I never got any comments. Each time a post would go out in the ether, I'd hold my breath a little, wondering if a k...
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*Serves four 1/4 cup of olive oil 1 large onion, peeled and roughly chopped 1 teaspoon of ground turmeric 1/2 teaspoon of garam masala 1 te...
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*serves four 4 large tomatoes, quartered* 1 red chile pepper, seeded and cut into long, thin slices* salt and freshly ground pepper, to taste...
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I started throwing lots of things away recently. Old magazines, high school t-shirts I've been holding onto since — well — high school, pre-ad...
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I don't know about you, but I've been treating myself right this holiday season. French Toast, cinnamon rolls, ginger molasses cookies...you know ...
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The days are long and the years are short, someone told me when I had my first child. I keep reminding myself of this in these early weeks with th...
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We grew up in the shadow of Silicon Valley. Where being good at math and science was inherently better than being able to bang out a well-written ...