I Am... Friday Links: 8.22.2014
It's FRIDAY! I had a super busy-yet-not-busy kind of week. I'm kind of stuck in a strange place right now and am trying to get back into the swing of things. Do you guys ever feel like shaking up your routine has a negative affect on your creativity and productivity? I'm a routine lover and change freaks me out so I'm going to spend the weekend relaxing and not thinking about anything at all. It's going to be filled with pancakes, meat and noodles. It's going to be good.
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I Am... Caramelized Pork Taco Recipe
I'm obsessed with DIY dinners. You know the kind: your friend invites you over for a nice sit-down dinner. You're expecting something plated, maybe a fancy pasta or a steak. Then they whip out the grill and all of a sudden you're doing Korean BBQ. Or maybe they have a takoyaki maker and everyone around you is expertly making perfect ball-shaped food. I am totally that friend. If you're invited to dinner at my place, there's a good chance you'll be making (or at least assembling) your own food.
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I Am... Coconut Almond Rice Krispie Treat Recipe
Rice Krispie treats bring me straight back to childhood. There were one of the first things I made in the kitchen. I remember bringing a rice krispie treat home (my daycare teacher did a lesson on measuring) and I was so proud. I thought it was the greatest thing I ever did. It was neon-greenness and covered in the copious amounts of rainbow sprinkles. It was beautiful!
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I Am... Sunday Stuff 8.17.2014
I'm in Summerland, BC for a wedding this weekend (congrats Klaus + Marie!) and it's gorgeous, but not as summery as I was expecting! It's totally reminding me that I should eat as many summer salads as I can, so I rounded up ALL the summer salads that I need to eat before fall creeps in. Also, true story, there are no doughnuteries in Summerland. I did a google search and there were no doughnuts to be found. So, I did the next best thing and stared at these panda doughnuts from Japan.
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I Am... How to Make Teriyaki Chicken
Teriyaki chicken used to be the only thing I ate at Japanese restaurants. My dad tried to get me to eat sashimi, but as a 7-year-old, raw fish kind of grossed me out. I got over that pretty quickly though and raw fish is now one of my favourite foods. I still, however, hold a soft spot in my heart for chicken teriyaki. Crispy chicken skin, glossy sweet sauce and fluffy white rice – there's a comfort food meal right there.
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I Am... Squid Ink Pasta with Shrimp and Burrata Recipe
Squid ink is kind of a weird ingredient - jet-black, inky and distinctively rich and briny. It pairs well with, you guessed it, seafood. Last year, while traveling through Europe, I saw it everywhere: in pasta, in rice and even in bread. Of course we tried squid ink everything. I even had a chance to cook with it myself – I made a quick squid ink pasta with fresh squid and I've been dreaming of it ever since.
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I Am... Peach Pistachio Caramel Crumble Recipe
I used to LOVE eating canned peaches. The syrupy sweetness, the strange canned mealy texture, the convenience of those little snack cups – they were the perfect treat for my five-year-old self. I can't remember the last time I ate canned peaches, but I'm thinking I should definitely go ahead and can some for a taste of sunshiny summer in the middle of winter.
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I Am... Sunday Stuff 8.10.2014
The past week I spent a lot of time reading, enjoying the sun, and doing one of what I consider a most indulgent past time – watching movie trailers. Mike and I don't go to the theatres a lot – I prefer cozying up at home and watching in our living room where the snacks are more along the lines of the above pictured spam fried rice onigiri instead of over-buttered, soggy popcorn. But of course, there's something to be said about the movie experience too! How about you guys: movie theatre or living room? And what movies are you looking forward to seeing?
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I Am... What's in my Kitchen: Utensils Edition
I decided to start a buying guide, just because so many people ask me what’s in my kitchen. This series started out life as “The Best (fill-in-the-blank)” but some people are a bit fanatical about the phrase “the best.” Here I’ll just stick to what I have in my kitchen – it’s what works for me. Feel free to tell me what works for you!
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I Am... Fully Loaded Baked Potato Salad Recipe
Potato salad. Definitely the salad I make a beeline to at all picnics, barbecues and potlucks. Often I'm disappointed so, to negate that, I'm usually the one bringing potato salad to the party. This is a super quick, super easy fully loaded baked potato salad. I baked the potatoes to get that earthy flavour, but you can go ahead and boil them if that's easier. Potatoes, bacon, cheddar and green onions. I could eat this all. the. time, especially alongside some barbecued jalapeño honey garlic chicken. Happy weekend friends!
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I Am... Taiwanese Meat Sauce and Rice Recipe
Do you guys ever miss high school? Let me clarify – I don't mean the school part of it, or the cliques or classes, I just mean the after school snacks. Man, after school snacks were the bomb. Snacks were, by far, the best part of a weekday. Sometimes my snack situation would be something simple like a giant bag of cheetos (I miss my teenage metabolism and penchant for crunchy styrofoam-y cheese snacks), sometimes it'd be a pack of instant noodles, but by far, the best after school snack was Taiwanese meat sauce.
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I Am... Buttermilk Waffle Recipe with Bourbon Cherry Sauce
A couple of weeks ago we had houseguests. One of them wanted to head out for Sunday brunch, but I was feeling entirely too lazy to put on real clothes and head out so the only logical thing to do was to stay in and make waffles. Luckily, I had buttermilk, Greek yogurt and fresh cherries in the fridge. Homemade buttermilk waffles with bourbon cherry sauce and honeyed yogurt and no Sunday brunch line-up equals win-win, in my books.
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