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We are fully into autumn and that means adding seasonal ingredients like pumpkin and butternut squash! This butternut squash soup is SO creamy and tasty and a great way to add more veggies into your meals. It’s also really easy to make, especially if you have a good blender (my personal favorite is the Vitamix)! …
Got the meat sweats Who doesn’t love a perfectly cooked steak? Cooking a good piece of meat (especially something like steak) can be daunting for a lot of people, because it’s so easy to overcook it and make it tough and chewy. My go-to in the kitchen is a sous vide machine! Sous vide is …
I’ve got a busy week this week, which means it’s time for an easy recipe with few ingredients that I can make multiple meals out of. Thanks to the Navy I didn’t have the ability to live outside of a dorm (aka Navy prison) in college, so I didn’t ever learn to cook in my …
My favorite food to get in NYC? Hand-pulled noodles at Xi’an Famous Foods! These noodles are perfectly chewy and can get mind-numbingly spicy, if that’s your thing! I haven’t been able to go back to the city in the quarantine era, so I thought I might give my own go at these Biang Biang noodles …
Anyone else agree that Parasite winning Best Picture was the last good thing to happen in 2020? It seems like it all went downhill from there! I’m a huge movie buff and love all Bong Joon-ho films, so I was glad to see how well-received Parasite was on a global scale. And one of the …
Story time! 8 years ago, Barack Obama was prepping for the 2012 presidential debates. On Air Force One, Sam Kass (his senior advisor on nutrition policy) whipped up this pasta for him – dubbed “lucky pasta” – which the president later remarked as the lucky dish that helped him succeed in those debates. Fast forward …
Scallops are one of my favorite seafoods, and recently I’ve learned they’re not too hard to cook at home! I think people (including myself) get scared of cooking seafood because we’re certain there’s a reason it’s so much more expensive. Don’t get me wrong – scallops aren’t cheap by any means, but cooking them at …
Is there anything more nostalgic of childhood than coming home to pizza rolls or bagel bites as an after-school snack? Now you can make a more grown-up version, using homemade English muffins as the pizza base and putting whatever ingredients you’d like on top! I went for a classic pepperoni with mozzarella and tomato sauce, …
I was recently gifted Sam Kass’s cookbook and have been loving it! Sam is the former chef for Barack and Michelle Obama and his former White House recipes are healthy, flavorful, and family friendly! One of my favorite recipes so far has been the braised chicken. It’s an easy recipe that is always yummy and …