Bagels! Chewy carby discs of dough. I love good-quality fresh bagels and hate those dense, hard, store-bought bricks that can be found in plastic bags in grocery store isles. I decided to make sourdough bagels one day because why not? I had nothing else to do and my mom really likes bagels. The first attempt…

When my friend Leela and I first began researching places to WWOOF, we searched for hosts that were female or couples to mitigate the risks of getting a predatory host. We landed on two older couples in Northern California, and began corresponding with them. With the second WWOOF hosts we were planning on staying with,…

When I’m home from school, I have a lot more free time, quality ingredients, and clean kitchen space to make what I want. Thus, I make more things more frequently. I made a sourdough starter at Oberlin, flew it back and forth with me in my checked baggage over winter break, and then travelled with…

I love baking (as you’ve likely guessed from the existence of this website). I love it so much that in spite of moving more than 1,500 miles from home into a strange, slightly dingy dorm room, I knew I had to keep baking. To do so, I gathered many kitchen tools. So many it was…

I had an old 70% cacao chocolate bar that was unopened and unused, so I thought I’d make good use of it before the semester ends and bake some chocolate sable cookies using the recipe from Miette Patisserie in San Francisco. I’ve made these cookies and posted them in an earlier post, but I thought…

A fairly recent development in my life is that I now love carrot cake. As I child, I used to think it was weird and not like the tangy cream-cheese icing that accompanied it but my tastebuds have since evolved. My favorite SLC local ice cream place, Normal, makes an unbelievably delicious carrot cake composed…

I’m in love with beets. Earthy, brightly-colored, and vegetal, they represent many things I love in the world and are an amazing and versatile food. I’m not sure why I love beets so much (maybe they contain a mineral I am deficient in?) but I do. So when I saw that Maurizio from The Perfect…

Have you ever enjoyed eating something so much you think it is hardwired in your DNA? That is how I feel about kimchi, and it might be true seeing as my Haelmoni and Halabojee were from Korea. Kimchi is a delicious explosion of umami, spice, crunch, and sour. It is now a trendy food item,…

Winter break from college was especially long this year, since it was our only break and time to go home. We were given 2 months off, so I had a lot of free time. My sister and I decided to make a stained glass gingerbread house instead of the typical windowless gingerbread houses of our…

My mom is a huge fan of peppermint ice cream, especially when paired with chocolate. She really wanted a peppermint chocolate ice cream cake for her birthday, so I decided to make one for her. She is against ice cream that is eggy, so I used an eggless recipe that used both crushed up peppermints…