I Am... Ahi Tuna Poke Quinoa Bowl
Confession: I've never been to Hawaii. I feel like I've been to quite a lot of places in the world, but for some reason I never made it to Hawaii. I don't know why because I feel like I would fit right in. Hawaiians are known for their love for spam and I love spam! They grow pineapples and I like to eat pineapples. They're obsessed with poke, and I am too!
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I Am... Cheddar Cheese Cauliflower Tots
Yesterday Mike and I went on a green onion hunt. For some reason Sundays are not the day to buy green onions. I guess Mondays are the days that stores restock? Anyway, at first, we were at this little Japanese market and I was going to buy some Tokyo negi, which is kind of like a giant green onion. But, I was too snobby about it because I wanted tiny, cute green onions, so I was all like, nah, let's get our green onions somewhere else.
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I Am... Friday Finds: 1.8.16
It's a new year and I'm bringing back Friday Finds! I fell off the Friday Finds wagon for a while there when I was traveling, but it's back, baby! Speaking of traveling, I should really put up some of the photos I took because it was an amazing trip.
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I Am... Chashu Pork Steamed Bao Recipe
Have I said it yet – have I said Happy New Year!? I can't believe it's 2016 – insane! If I haven't, let me take this chance to wish you a happy and healthy new year; I hope it brings you everything your heart desires. So far 2016 has seemed extra busy and just a little bit chilly. We've had a little bit of snow, which is super exciting around these parts. Mike and I have been making an effort to walk around our little neighborhood because it looks like a winter wonderland with frozen tree branches and dripping icicles.
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I Am... Restaurant Startup Pop-Up: Snack Bar
I'm always thinking about opening my own restaurant. I have so many ideas that I'm not exactly sure which one I would go with. I LOVE coming up with restaurant themes and creating fun menus and dishes that would be featured. So when Restaurant Startup, the super fun CNBC show, asked me to come up with a restaurant idea, kind of like I would be a contestant on the show, I jumped at the chance.
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I Am... The Best of 2015: A Recipe Round Up!
I know I say it every year, but I can't believe that 2015 is over. I feel like it really flew by with no time to do any of the things I promised myself I would do, but when I look back, I actually did a lot. I like to take the end of the year to take the time to contemplate and reflect, and just like last year, I perused the archives to see what I spent the year cooking.
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I Am... Mini Chicken Chili Cups
Whew – I can't believe Christmas is over. I hope yours was a good one! We had a ton of food, as per usual, and I'm not embarrassed to admit that I had a legit food coma. I'm talking about seriously passed out on the couch, with my little food belly peeking out from under my cozy winter sweater. It was a throughly good time, but now it's almost New Years, I'm going to start thinking about some resolutions that involve not over-eating.
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I Am... Marzipan Chocolate Chip Cookies
How the heck did Christmas sneak up so quickly!? I've been so busying being jet-lagging, baking, and merry making that I didn't even notice that Christmas is in two days! What are your plans? Mine involve a Christmas-y hot pot dinner with my family and a Mike and I collaborative Christmas day menu – I'm making a ducken (that's a duck stuffed with a chicken) and he's doing the sides. I'm super excited.
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I Am... Newcastle Brown Ale Pulled Duck Nachos
When I think of beer, I think of nachos. And nachos are one of my all time favorite food groups. I've been known to make people restaurant hop in search of nachos. One year, my dearest friends and I had the most surreal Christmas nacho experience. We were in a hip (okay, it wasn't that hip) part of town with tons of restaurants and none of them had nachos. We must've gone to 4 or 5 places, looking at menus, until we finally found a place by the water. It wasn't the kind of joint that we'd typically visit, but at that point we were all fiending for nachos, so we went in.
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I Am... Chicken Recipe Round Up
Mike and I are home from our travels and I couldn't be happier. As much as I love traveling, there's something so heart-warming about coming home. We just decorated the tree and are now in the midst of the busy Christmas season. Usually at this time of year, we're out for dinner a lot, with friends and family. If we are at home, I'm usually making something quick and easy, like chicken. Here's a little chicken recipe round up for all of you who are looking for something delicious. Hope your December is going well so far!
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I Am... 2015 Holiday Giveaway
It's giveaway time! It's a massive one guys and I'm pretty excited! For the past week or so I've been featuring recipes using Staub, Shun, Cuttingboard.com, Finex, and Kitchen Aid and now's the time to finally bundle everything up and give it all away. Well, not literally, because you're actually going to win new items, so there's no real bundling, just figurative bundling.
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I Am... Festive Caramel Corn and Rice Krispie Mix
My family isn't huge on sweet treats, but Christmas time is treat time. We have a few favorites: an incredibly buttery butter pound cake that smells insanely delicious while baking, melt-in-your-mouth short bread cookies, and caramel corn, or as my mom likes to call it, poppycock. The caramel corn/poppycock is a fairly new addition to our sweet treat list. My mom got the recipe from a co-worker and I remember the first time we made it, it was more candied nuts than popcorn, mostly because my mom loves nuts.
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