One of my favorite things to eat is fresh spring rolls so I have them at least once a month in various forms.  Although Eric loves them too, he’s not a huge fan of eating the same things several times in a row.  That’s where this salad comes in helpful.  If I have a bunch of noodles, julienne sliced veggies and lettuce in the fridge, I can throw this salad together in two minutes! Read more

Have you heard of Good Bite?  It’s a fun food site full of videos and great recipes, with some of my favorite people to boot!  I’d been trying to recreate a Chinese friend’s recipe for hoisin wings but couldn’t quite get it like I remembered it.  Then my friend Jaden put her hoisin wings recipe up on GoodBite and I realized that what I was missing was honey!  I’d been making them with brown sugar and though they were good, they weren’t like I remembered. Read more

When you’re on a tight budget, shrimp is a rare treat.  Even buying them in bulk usually leads to a price tag of 25 cents a piece, which means when you eat them you typically want something spectacular.  Sometimes I’ll chop up 2-3 shrimp a person and stretch them in a salad, curry, or soup.  But one of my favorite ways to eat shrimp is hot off the grill. Read more

Here’s the promised Korean Chicken Thigh Recipe.   The thighs take only about 5 minutes of prep time and then cook in the oven so you don’t have to stand over the stove to keep an eye on them.  One of my hapa (part Asian) friends in Hawaii had a Korean mom who was a fantastic cook.  These chicken thighs were often marinating in her fridge when I came over, and there was always an extra one if I wanted to stay for dinner! Read more

I’m always creating vegetable side dishes because I want things that are a fast and easy way to get our vegetable servings for the day.  I made a Korean Chicken Thigh recipe (coming soon!) and wanted something appropriate to go with it.  Kimchi seemed like the obvious choice but I haven’t made any recently and it needs at least a couple days of fermenting time.  So I whipped together these cucumbers as a quick kimchi substitute. Read more