Banana chocolate-chip muffins
I love bananas, but I don’t tend to buy them very often. Because… fruit flies. They always attract fruit flies. But every once in a while I’ll buy them because maybe there’s another recipe, or they’re on sale, or they just sounded really really good… and of course I never eat them up in time
Seven Treasures Roll
What do you treasure in life – aside from living beings because you know, we all treasure our parents, our friends, our partner, our pets… but what are the things in life that you treasure? For me… I treasure peace and quiet. I treasure snuggly blankets. I treasure the internet because it can be a
Pink and green triangle kazari sushi
Most of my life I thought of myself as not a creative person. There’s so many times I’ve said, oh, I’m just not creative enough for that. Oh, that’s so cool that other people are doing that, but I’m just not creative. And for me, it felt like the truth. I didn’t have that many
Tosilog
I was not exposed to Filipino food at all, growing up. I had never been to a Jolleebee, never tried adobo, never even had lumpia until I was well into adulthood! But between streaming, youtube, making more filipino friends, and finding more filipino restaurants in our area… that has completely changed in the last few
Tocino
If something involves pork belly, I’m pretty much guaranteed to love it, and this tocino is no exception! It’s a Filipino cured pork dish, often eaten with sinangag (garlic fried rice) and a fried egg for breakfast. I chose to use pork belly, but other cuts of pork such as the butt or the ham
Glasses kazari sushi
I really love the trend of better representation in media, because stereotypes are just such a weird thing. They’re weird for people who fit the stereotype, because then they get pigeonholed and they’re only allowed to be that one thing. But it also sucks for people who don’t fit the stereotype, because it feels like,
White flower kazari sushi
Back when I was dancing as a teenager, I used to have a tradition for every show. On the first night of the show, my mom and I would stop at a flower shop on the way to the theater and we would pick up a huge bouquet of carnations. And then when we got
Poo-Shi
So many of us have creative dreams that we never quite pursue. Maybe you want to be an artist or a writer or a dancer or a musician or anything where you’re creating something… but you’re scared. What if you’re no good? What if nobody likes it? What if you just can’t do it? I’ve
Tiger Stripe Sushi
I love the practice of referring to stretch marks as tiger stripes. It just sounds so fierce. I haven’t been pregnant yet – I have no children, but I do have stretch marks on my legs from when I hit puberty and my hips just blossomed like crazy. So I’ve got these stretch marks on