Colorful recipes with seasonal food
My church held their second annual Highrocktoberfest last week and asked me if I could provide some snacks again. Last year there was a competition for best cornbread, which I won with my Elote-Style Cornbread Waffles. This year there was no such competition; I was just told to make something that would go well with…
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I live in one of those rare regions of the United States that isn’t big on chain restaurants, other than Dunkin’ Donuts. To explain how drastic it is, I’m pretty sure there isn’t a single McDonalds located in the city I live in (population > 50,000)! I don’t really mind that much, but it means…
After making a low country boil, I couldn’t not also do a clambake! A traditional New England clambake involves digging a pit in the sand, building a fire, adding rocks to the pit, covering them with seaweed, layering on the food, and then covering it all up with a tarp and waiting forever for it…
The first time I heard of low country boil was when someone posted on reddit asking for a recipe. Intrigued, I looked it up to discover it was kind of like a clam bake, but with shrimp. Basically, you boil a large pot of water, douse it with Old Bay or crab boil (which apparently…
One of the reasons I started this blog 5 years ago was to document and share my mom’s amazing Taiwanese cooking. Since then, I’ve gone on to post a lot of different recipes, but hers are still my favorite ones because they remind me of home. The other day I was craving some of…
