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Japanese Breakfast Bowl

Apparently Japanese Breakfast Bowls are becoming a thing in LA restaurants these days. They’re basically rice, with some fish and some veggies. I love dinner food for breakfast, so I’ve been making something akin to that at home for a long time! My version is super easy because it’s mostly already prepared ingredients from the…

Park’s BBQ Restaurant Review

Gold Dig #29 Park’s BBQ is one of the Korean restaurants on Jonathan Gold’s 101 Best Restaurants list. I think he likes Korean food almost as much as he likes Thai food, as he often talks about his visits to Koreatown. As you might have guessed from the name, Park’s BBQ does Korean BBQ, where your order…

Berry Cream Brûlée

This is a dessert I learned from my friend Sheana, and have adopted into my repertoire because it is dead simple but so tasty. Anything you serve in ramekins and brûlée can be put forth at a dinner party as a fancy dessert. No one will know that this has 3 ingredients and takes minutes…

Corn Muffin Pudding

Corn Muffin Pudding is one of my mom’s go-tos if she needs to whip up something quick to bring to a party. Everyone loves it and is surprised to hear that it’s another one of those fantastically easy recipes that involves nothing more than mixing together 5 ingredients and throwing in the oven. The 5…

Cutting Corners with Lasagna

Sometimes an impromptu night of home-making lasagna is exactly what you need. The Lasagna The star of the show, naturally, was the lasagna. We started with homemade pasta sheets. Anthony made his secret tomato sauce recipe, which included ground beef, Italian sausage, tomatoes, wine, and a set of spices that shall never be revealed. It…

Bringing In the Year of the Rooster

A couple weeks ago, we celebrated Chinese New Year by closing out the Year of the Monkey. Now we get to celebrate by bringing in the Year of the Rooster! Many of the dishes are family traditions which will look familiar from the last feast, but I love to eat these foods so I don’t…

Coffee Cocoa Magic Cake

Magic Cake seems to be the internet food trend of the moment. If you follow food blogs, you’ve heard of it. Even my brother knows what it is. He told my mom about it, and she has been dying to try it. And who am I to deny my mother, who has so patiently put…

Banoffee Pie

Have I mentioned that I like pie? Sheana texted me to say that my incessant talk about the Pineapple Cream Pie (check out my Guessipe) and Long-Chee Pie (check out my Guessipe) that my cousin and I made for Chinese New Year had inspired her to buy pie crusts during her last trip to the…

Adana Restaurant Review

Gold Dig #28 Adana is a Middle Eastern restaurant in a strange spot kind of in the middle of nowhere in Glendale. It is one of the only places on Jonathan Gold’s 101 Best Restaurants list that is out in that area. We were going to be nearby-ish to see a taping of Conan, so we took advantage…

Super (Rice) Bowl

I love the Super Bowl. It combines two of my favorite things – food and football. It’s especially great to celebrate with foodie friends. Sure, we had all the usual suspects like beer, chips, salsa, guac. But then we stepped it up a notch with things like homemade crab dip (find my Guessipe here) and homemade…

Crab Dip

It seems like the only time crab dip is served is at football parties. Don’t get me wrong – I love football and I love crab dip, so I’m not complaining. But crab dip is a wonderful thing. Perhaps I will try to start a movement – make crab dip your every day dip! Hmmm……

Pasta Party

For Christmas, Katy got pasta attachments for her KitchenAid mixer. She invited a bunch of us to come over and make our favorite sauce to go with the three different kinds of homemade pasta she whipped up. Definitely my kind of party. Capellini First, she had capellini. These were the thinnest noodles. Alyssa made Marcella…