There are few things I love doing more than cooking a meal for other people. For one, it’s a time to showcase your skills, of course, but it’s more about bringing people together and having a blast together in the form of the dinner party. I can easily say sayonara to all bar times, club […]

Does everyone remember how their love affairs began? Because my love affair with beets came into fruition oddly and unexpectedly, at a restaurant in Harbour Island, Bahamas. One of my best friend’s fathers ordered a beet salad and for some reason, I was stupefied that my mouth had never met a beet in its life. […]

Who else’s brain immediately thinks of  this South Park episode at the sound of creme fraiche? Creme fraiche, which once sounded so perfectly foreign, whimsical, and light, as if I was galavanting through clouds of whipped deliciousness in heaven, is now tainted forever by Randy Marsh. I can’t say creme fraiche in the same way anymore, […]

A lot of the recipes I post are time consuming. I know this. They’re more of the “relax on a Saturday and spend thirty minutes peeling and chopping” or “zone out with precisely measuring stuff for brownies”. Many of them are not “weekday friendly” meals. Mainly because I do not currently have a routine of […]

Looks can be deceiving. I probably look put together, but little do you know that I live in a state of organized chaos, have the most absurd and ridiculous sense of humor and I’m a ginormous dork. That scarf I’m wearing, that you just asked where it’s from because it’s nice looking? $1.99, forever21. That […]

Does everyone have beliefs? And do these beliefs shift through time or are they stagnant? As I get older, some of my beliefs have stayed the same, and others change tremendously as I pick up tiny gold nuggets of life knowledge. I’ve always believed in friends, and strong relationships. I believe in deep conversations, in […]