Bon Me serves Vietnamese inspired bahn mi sandwiches and rice and noodle bowls out of a food truck in and around Boston. I simply can’t get enough of their ode to one of my favorite Vietnamese fast foods, the bahn mi sandwich of pickled veggies, meat, and crispy french baguette.  Though I came for the bahn mi, I [...]

  I’ve decided to start reviewing local eats in and around the Boston area. The blog will not become dedicated to reviews though; I’m still interested in cooking, thinking, and writing about food in a recipe sharing kind of way. And no, I will not be reviewing anything that is given to me free. It’s [...]

Clearly I haven’t been blogging much lately. I have been still creating a lot good eats–like fig and cashew granola and apple-squash curry soup–but the blog has become a wee bit dusty in the meantime. Sometimes you just need a break from things though. I learned something fundamental last night that inspired me to post: [...]

I’ve had chickpea flour in a reused peanut butter jar stuck in the back of my cabinet forever. I wanted chickpea flour to make socca or farinata, a savory chickpea flour pancake, but after going through that phase I forgot about flour.  The last cup or so of the just hung around with the rest [...]

Making pancakes on a weekend morning always feels fancy and lazy. It means taking out the flour and spilling it all over the red tiled flour without noticing for longer than a while. It means lingering with coffee that goes from hot to cold because I’m not getting up off the couch. It means watching Disney [...]

  Garlic scapes are the cool kids at the farmers market in between late spring and early summer. Those alien-like spiral tendrils are part of the culinary in crowd. I finger their weird shapes in perplexity when they make their brief celebrity appearance at the market stalls—what do you exactly do with garlic scapes? And [...]

Sweet potatoes go well with everything, seriously. Those orange roots go from the standard thanksgiving fair all the way to sweet potato curry, sweet potato fries, black bean and sweet potato chili, sweet potato gratin, sweet potato and black bean chipotle burgers, sweet potato, chickpea, and collard green soup, and so on. I’ve also learned [...]

Summer doesn’t officially start until June 22nd. That is silly because It feels like summer now. It is humid. We have a rickety fan in the window so that we can deny it is time to haul the air conditioner up from the basement. Weird half mosquitos-half flies found their way into our bedroom. But [...]

I love non-recipe recipes. The great thing about knowing what flavors and ingredients you like is that it makes creating fast, good meals without recipes easy. Black bean tacos are just that kind of thing. So while I’m sharing a recipe here technically, you don’t really need one. My recipe for black bean tacos & slaw [...]

Or what I like to call Sunflowah Buttah. I was thinking the other day about how some fancy grocery stores let you grind your own nut butters. Then I thought “wait, I can do that at home!” Now I’m hatching an unlikely but fun plan to create a nut butter business called Nut Your Butter [...]