Author: Allison

Roasted salmon with salsa verde

I think, being known as the “sushi girl”, a lot of people might assume that I practically started eating sashimi in the womb. But I grew up in a family that almost never ate fish. Both of my parents loved fish! But my mom is allergic, and so aside from fish sticks and tuna salad

Zuppa Toscana

My family was not really a go-out-to-eat kind of family. In retrospect we were lucky that my mom always cooked a homemade meal every day, but as kids of course we were always begging for burgers or pizza. To our delight fast food did happen every once in a while, but we almost never went

Car Kazari Sushi

A couple of months after Son and I met, I got in a really, really bad car accident. Car totalled, a week in the hospital, surgery a few weeks later to put me back together… it was bad. And while I obviously wouldn’t choose go through the accident again had I a choice in the

Roast Pork Butt Sandwich

What happens if you take the flavors of duck ramen, and turn it into a sandwich? That wasn’t what we set out to do, but that’s where we ended up, AND WE REGRET NOTHING. I decided to make this roast pork butt sandwich from Lady and Pups because I ended up with some broccoli rabe,

Cornbread Stuffing with Sausage and Corn Nuts

I have a question. In your family, do you call it stuffing or dressing? In my family we always refer to it as stuffing, even though technically it was never really stuffed in anything. But still, we called it stuffing. We had two types – a rice stuffing, and a bread stuffing. And as a

PS5 Kazari Sushi

I talk about this a lot, and I will keep bringing it up because I think it’s something that’s really important – I’m always telling people, “Post your shitty art.” And this is because, if you’re so afraid of making shitty art, you will never even start, and then your good art will never exist

Buttermilk Cornbread (for stuffing)

People always make assumptions about judgments I might make because I cook a lot. But the thing is, I will never ever shame somebody who cooks from a box mix, because growing up that’s what we did. We always always had a box of Bisquick in the pantry, and you knew it was going to

Dancing Feet Kazari Sushi

As part of the ballroom dance team, we’d volunteer to help out at ballroom competitions. And for one of these competitions, Son and I ended up signing up for the same time slot. When I got to the hotel where the competition was being held, I couldn’t figure out where to park. So he CONVENIENTLY

XBOX Sushi

The world of gamers is always so interesting to me. I think most people would look at me and say, “oh she’s absolutely not a gamer,” because I did not grow up having a video game console. That was not something we ever had until my brother was old enough to start playing video games,

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