- Shakshuka w/Red Zhoug
A very good breakfast, lunch, or dinner. The zhoug can be made day of or, you can make it ahead …
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- Celery Salad
A caesar-ish salad that comes together quick. The croutons are a good way to use up stale bread, but not …
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- Rare Beef Salad
A classic Vietnamese salad that is good for a weeknight or a crowd. If you can, I would get the …
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- Salad w/Nước Chấm Vinaigrette
This came together sort of unexpectedly but was good enough to write up. An immersion blender makes this extremely easy, …
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- Pizza Dough
A mix between Neapolitan and New York-style pizza dough. Some of my favorite pizza combos:
- Lemon Orzo w/Chicken
This can be done with or without the chicken, but it makes it a more of a full meal, and …
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- Karaage w/Togarashi Mayo
This is now my favorite fried chicken – simpler, quicker, and cleaner than the Southern version. If you don’t mirin, …
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- Sausage, Kale, and White Bean Stew
A simple stew, but one I make when it starts getting cold. This can easily become the base for a …
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- Spaghetti with Anchovy, Garlic & Lemon
This combination between a couple different pasta dishes has been a weeknight staple for a while now. If you don’t …
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- Peri Peri Chicken
Without a doubt my favorite way to eat chicken (other than maybe karaage), and not as hard as it looks. …
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- Cucumber Salad
A Thai-inspired version of cucumber salad.
- Potato Salad
Based on a salad I get at a great sandwich shop in Chicago, L&M Fine Foods. They use horseradish in …
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- Cinnamon Rolls
Unequivocally the best cinnamon rolls I’ve ever had. Refrigerating them overnight helps them set and not spread everywhere when baking. …
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- Crispy Pork Rice Bowl
One of two pork, rice, pickle combinations. The texture of this pork doesn’t really keep, so I would try to …
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- Preserved Lemons
We used to make this, and this salad dressing at a restaurant I worked at in college, and it was …
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- Preserved Lemon Vinaigrette
One of my all-time favorite salad dressings.
- Mapo Tofu
A (probably) non-traditional variation. Feel free to change the amounts on pretty much anything or any toppings you’d like (soy …
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- Fennel, Chili, Citrus Salad
Took a shot on this one, but it was great. A mandolin makes this a lot easier, but if you …
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- Pork Green Chili
Inspired by Kenji. I made this for the Super Bowl and it turned out way better than I though it …
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- One-Pan Chicken and Potatoes with Tzatziki
Inspired by a random Instagram reel. Depending on the size of the chicken I’m using, I’ll par-cook the potatoes by …
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- Chili Oil/Crisp
A variation, using gochugaru instead of dried thai chilies, since I don’t have a spice grinder.
- Salsa Macha
Mostly based on a version I saw Jessica Largey make on The Chef Show. Feel free to change or adjust …
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- Sweet and Spicy Fish
A quick and easy weeknight meal, with a little bit of knife work . You could really use whatever peppers …
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- Tuna and Fennel Salad
Another tin fish salad. Pretty much exactly from Thomas Straker.
- Char Siu (BBQ Pork) Rice Bowl
Char siu is one of my mom’s favorite and I grew up eating char siu bao after school, so I …
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- Half-Sour Pickles
Feel free to add or subtract as you like – the garlic and chili flakes in particular – but a …
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- Korean Fried Chicken Sandwich
I was trying to figure out a way to make crispy fried chicken without needing a big pot of oil …
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- Pizza Dough
I tend to use Brian Lagerstrom’s recipe now, but this one that my dad developed turned out hits for years.
- Strawberry-Rhubarb Compote
- Fall Salad w/Apple Pepper Vin
Inspired by a farmer’s market haul and the need to use up some peppers.
- Fennel-Herb-Orange Salad
Inspired by a couple different salads in Six Seasons, the best cookbook I’ve ever seen or used. A little sweet, …
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- Cucumber-Chili Salad
Inspired by H Woo.
- Mushroom and Macha
A take on one of the best dishes I’ve ever had from a restaurant and bar in San Francisco called …
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- Shrimp Toast
Inspired by a restaurant in Atlanta that was featured on The Chef Show. The salsa macha is a little bit …
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- Hen of the Woods
I don’t have a good name for this, so the name of the mushrooms will have to do. After dating …
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- Farmer’s Market Clean-out Galette
This was sort of the saving grace of a bunch of produce that was going bad. It turned out to …
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- Fermented Fresno Hot Sauce
This ended up tasting like a fruiter, more complex Tapatio, fermented for about a month. Made from the memory of …
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- Dutch Baby
One of my favorite light breakfasts. And it doesn’t hurt that it only uses one pan and one bowl.
- Cornbread
A good and extremely straightforward to any southern or creole meal.
- Lemon Chicken
This is one of the first dishes my dad made my mom – definitely a good date meal. It’s also …
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- Jam Ideas
- Spring Rolls and Peanut Sauce
A great family-style meal, getting everyone sitting around a table putting together spring rolls.
- Quick Pickled Vietnamese Veggies
A good side or addition to spring rolls or banh mis.
- Tacos with Mango, Avocado Salsa
A dinner that was all Kelsey’s doing. I believe it was one of the first meals we cooked together after …
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- Masaman Chicken
One of my favorite uses of canned curry paste. I like it with bone-in chicken thighs that are slow cooked …
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- Ceviche
A great summer dinner on the front porch in the college house.
- Korean BBQ, Asian Slaw
This recipe came together in pieces, first with the salad/slaw, then doing a galbijjim-style beef. I had made both before …
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- Spicy Potato Tacos w/ Chipotle Slaw
I really like making cheap or fast food, but more involved. This was initially inspired by Taco Bell’s burritos, but …
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- Salsa Verde
Ball-parked from a watching a scene in cooking show a long time ago. All the measurements are more of suggestions …
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- Breakfast Scramble
This is definitely not a super healthy breakfast, but definitely a filling one. I intentionally left the amounts of the …
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- Fried Rice
I grew up eating fried rice a lot, and this recipe is close to one I remember eating as a …
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- Pork or Chicken with Lemon-Caper Sauce (Picatta)
I came up with this about year ago, not knowing that it was essentially Pork Picatta, with the addition of …
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- Mashed Potatoes
A very simple, five ingredient mashed potato recipe.
- Chicken Pot Pie
One of my favorite meals, this is a somewhat simplified version of an already pretty straight-forward dish. I used a …
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- Maitake, Sausage and Mostaccioli
I had been making this sort of pasta for a long time, but after reading Six Seasons by Joshua McFadden, …
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- Fried Chicken (and Waffles)
Methods can vary slightly for fried chicken, but I got mine from watching Anthony Bourdain when he traveled around the …
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- French Onion Soup
I saw this be made on The Chef Show, and wanted to recreate it, without really knowing proportions or what …
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- David’s Creole Shrimp (or Fish) with Cheesy Grits
This is a recipe of my dad’s that he came up with in the last year or so. I made …
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- Strawberry-Cherry-Rhubarb Jam with Basil
Let me preface this by saying I don’t really know how jam is usually made, but I wanted to give …
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- Ian’s Tin Fish Salad
My roommate Ian, whose brother inspired my Chicken-Vegetable Stew, came up with this simple salad the other week when we …
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- Steak au Poivre
A classic French dish that seems much more difficult and impressive than it really is, especially this version. I simplified …
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- Blackened Tilapia with Black-eyed Peas and Grits
Feel free to adjust the amounts on the blackened seasoning, what I have here is general estimates but I didn’t …
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- Chicken-Vegetable Soup
The basis of this recipe comes from my roommates brother, Colin – the best professional chef I’ve been able to …
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- Pasta al Limone
A classic pasta recipe that’s very simple with few, cheap ingredients. I have been tweaking this recipe as I go …
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- Banh Mi
Bahn Mis are already pretty simple, but this is a version that myself and a friend, Kelsey, made that is …
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- Pesto
For this first weekly recipe I thought I’d keep it simple – essentially just throwing a bunch of stuff in …
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- French Croissants
This is probably the hardest thing I’ve ever made, not in terms of being physically or technically difficult, but that …
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- Cinnamon-Banana Bread
I don’t bake a ton, and wanting to challenge myself, I decided to make this without a recipe or looking …
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- Drop Biscuits and Gravy
This is another recipe that I learned from my dad. These can easily take less than half an hour to …
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- Thai Red Curry Chicken
I learned this dish from my dad, but never wrote down exactly what he does, so it has become my …
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- Boiled/Fried Potatoes (Smashed)
I made these not realizing that smashed potatoes are very much a well known thing already, but has become one …
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- Kelsey’s Rice Bowl
Kelsey, one of the best cooks I know, put this rice bowl together, and I make it so consistently that …
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- Pasta Aglio e Olio
I adapted this recipe from The Chef Show. Its a simple six ingredient pasta that is easy to make, but …
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