I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! As I mentioned in a previous post, I wanted to post more vegetarian alternatives to Vietnamese dishes, and you can’t have Vietnamese food without nuoc cham. The original recipe calls for fish sauce, and honestly, there’s no taste like fish sauce since it’s so unique. But I…
The main event at Thanksgiving dinner is the turkey. I know that turkey is a Thanksgiving tradition, but I REALLY don’t like turkey. I think it’s dry and has no flavor. So I wanted to reimagine the center piece of the dinner and decided to go duck. Yes it is unorthodox but in Asian culture,…
I am so so SO excited about this recipe because it’s one I absolutely love. Not that I don’t love my other recipes but this one is special to me. Growing up, I always loved mashed potatoes, but I could never get it at home because my mom didn’t know how to make them. That’s…
I CANNOT believe it’s 2 weeks until Thanksgiving. This year feels like it flew by, and it also felt like it lasted forever. 2020 is one for the books and that means this Thanksgiving is definitely going to be interesting. Celebrations will be different, so I thought I would take a different approach to the…
When I made my matcha glazed cinnamon rolls last month, my mom kept saying they had too much processed sugar, so in an effort to appease her tastes, I made a batch of sticky buns with less processed sugar. So how did I keep the same level of sweetness? With medjool dates! They are inherently…
One thing I’ve been aiming to do with my blog is to create vegetarian versions of Vietnamese recipes. In the past couple of years, many of my friends have become vegan or vegetarian, and this made me realize how many of my recipes they couldn’t eat. As a home cook, my greatest joy comes from…
As an Asian American, I always look forward to persimmon season in the fall. Persimmons are essentially the Asian equivalent to pumpkins in Western culture. They even look a little like mini pumpkins! I always try to come up with new recipes utilizing persimmons because I love them so much, so I thought why not…
