Vietnamese Chicken Salad

Brace yourself for a really easy Vietnamese recipe. My mom used to poach a whole chicken to use the poaching liquid to make chicken porridge and to shred the cooked chicken to put in this salad.  I would do that if …

Cookies ‘n Cream Cupcakes

So I like Oreos, but I LOVE them when in cookies ‘n cream form.  I think that Oreos are a little too chocolatey on their own, but they’re perfect mixed with something more plain like vanilla.  I looked around for …

Bulgogi Sliders

Working in Koreatown has made me start to constantly crave Korean food and want to cook Korean food.  So when the roomies and I decided to have a housewarming party after moving to hipster central, I thought it might be …

Cereal Milk Ice Cream

I haven’t really eaten sugary cereals since college because they are super not healthy for you, but I made an exception to make this ice cream.  I have no regrets. My friend had posted a picture of cereal milk ice cream …

Avocado Tuna Salad

I found recipes like this and I’ve been wanting to try it out, but the weather in LA has been fluctuating so much!  It’s in the 80s one week, so I plan on making this for the following week because it’ll …

Strawberry Cheesecake Ice Cream

Summer is upon us, friends (or at least it feels like it in LA)!  It’s time to bring my ice cream maker out of storage! So confession: I tried to make this recipe last year after a really tough day …

Salmon and Spinach Quinoa Salad

 Last week I was fully intending on making Vietnamese curry because I was having a mad craving for it, but then the weather forecast said that it was going to be in the low-90s and I decided curry would be …

Cap’n Crunch Cupcakes

So I’ve been thinking a lot about how I really want to make something with Cap’n Crunch cereal in it.  Cap’n Crunch is one of my faves (along with Pops and Lucky Charms) and I haven’t had it in years!  I …

Tofu Fried Brown Rice

I have been putting off posting a fried rice recipe for almost a year, even though I make it at least once a month.  The beauty of fried rice is that you don’t have to strictly follow a recipe and …

Sesame and Sriracha Baked Tofu

Months after deciding to stop being a pescatarian and just limit my intake of meat, I noticed that I’ve been eating A LOT of meat lately.  This mostly has come in the form of burgers (I LOVE YOU IN-N-OUT), which …