I love strawberry gin and tonics but don’t like an overly gin-y flavor. Here’s a strawberry tonic with a little tiny bit of a twist.
All in Recipe
Korean Barbecue at Home
With quarantine, my K BBQ craving has reached exponential heights. Unless you feel like living dangerously, I would do this outside - somewhere with a lot of ventilation.
Healthy Instant Pot sloppy Joe
On today’s episode of “Instant Pot makes 20x faster” …
Sloppy Joe’s usually me of hardened melted cheese, “crispitos” and other disgusting school lunch foods. It was creepy that schools allowed children to eat scary creations and cookies the size of your head. This Sloppy Joe is different. It’s the perfect balance of sweet and spicy AND you can make it quick in the Instant Pot. I like to freeze it and take it camping for a quick lunch.
Instant Pot Pho
Flavors: brothy, pho-y
So a LONG time ago I wrote a recipe for crock pot pho. Super good, super easy. The recipe was poorly written, which may have been a little frustrating for readers. Also- it took a LONG time to make. Like 8 hours. Forever.
Anywho- today, I have a recipe for Instant Pot pho ga / chicken pho. WAY Faster. 1.5 hrs and you have a BOMB pho ga. If you don’t know what an Instant Pot is- HELLO - where have you been the past 5 Black Fridays.
Healthy Thai Iced Tea & Best Teas to Use
I love love loved Thai tea. Every time I had a long night of studying to do in college, I would grab a friend to split a pad Thai & some Thai tea. Those were the days. But after college, I started becoming wary about hidden chemicals in my food- excess sodium in my pho, etc. I started wondering what made Thai tea have this fluorescent orange color. Spoiler alert: at a lot of restaurants, it's food coloring (yay). Also, secret ingredient #2 is sugar. A lot of sugar.
Shrimp Scampi Zoodles
This is a recipe for when you’ve been eating WAY. Too. Many. Noodles. It has the bomb flavors of a lemony shrimp dish but with no pasta. For this recipe, you need a spiralizer. This one’s currently a great deal on Amazon.
Shin Ramen, but Make it Kimchi
Some nights you just gotta spruce up some ramen. I have fond memories of Shin Ramen in high school. Study study study and eat some Shin Ramen. Yeah nerd stuff. Here’s a dope way to spruce up our beloved ramen cup.
Healthy DIY Poke Bowl
One day, I realized I was addicted to poke. I would get it at least once a week. After a visit to Ijji sushi, I started questioning the quality of the fish at poke places. Thinking about it made me feel slightly icky. Paired with the intense bloating from the high sodium poke sauces, I decided to make my own poke bowl at home.
The ingredient list looks intimidating, but I promise it's not hard to make. You can add & leave out ingredients as you please.
Not Your Mama's Biryani Guide
I talk a big game about biryani, but I've never posted a recipe. Until now.
What is Biryani?
It's a curry infused rice dish. Think of fruit infused water, but better- and spicier.
DUTCH OVEN: Beef Udon Soup
Flavors: Umami, sesame, miso
Can we agree that homemade broth is better? But it takes SO MUCH TIME. I want to the effort of boxed broth with the taste of homemade broth. Is that possible? Kind of- sort of. By using a Dutch Oven, you can spruce up a “meh” broth pretty quickly. The Dutch Oven locks in moisture during cooking and can maintain high heat at lower temperatures.
This is no 8 hr broth, but it’s still bomb & takes 1/8 of the time.