My sophomore year of college, I went vegan for a few months. It started as an experiment of curiosity, and became a really nice experience to have. It made me appreciate food a lot more, and become more adventurous with my cooking and eating. This post isn't going to be to tell you all to…
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Scooping Your Salads (An Easy and Low Carb Trick!)
I've talked before about how I'm not a huge bread person. I'll crave it when I'm stressed, but that's really about it. And I never eat sliced bread, but rather baguettes, rolls, and biscuits. But that's just in small amounts on certain occasions! I hate sandwiches and seldom eat them, as I'll prefer lettuce wraps…
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Lunar New Year (Makeup, Outfit… and Food!)
So I'm in Dallas FW right now for a little over a week! I visit my grandmother a few times a year, and I chose this weekend to fly out because it is Lunar New Year! I'm still kind of figuring how I'm going to structure these posts or how I'm going to do them...…
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A Super Easy Spicy Vegan Sautee
This dish has a special place in my heart because it is not only ridiculously easy, but it is the very first dish I ever cooked for Lolo when we were studying for a Cell Bio lab exam. She's my only vegan friend, and so whenever I hang out with her I also eat vegan.…
The 25 Food Questions Tag
I have not blogged about food recently (I've been very busy!), but I absolutely love food. I'm a total foodie, a Yelp Elite... I know my food! And for those of you asking, I am going to post a guide to my favorite places and spaces in Chicago to grab food, sometime soon! I've been…
The Best (And Easiest) Healthy Fries
If there's something you guys know about me, it's that I love fries. Fries are my favorite food, and the way to my heart. And after stumbling on to this recipe... I'm obsessed. I have made these fries thrice already in the first twenty four hours that I have known about them. They are vegan,…
Who Has The Best S’mores Cupcake in Chicago?
Cupcakes. Ashley and I are cupcake connoisseurs. We once went on our own cupcake crawl and tried every cupcake in Chicago--and determined the worst and best in Chicago. (PS- we decided that Molly's has the best! And the worst were Twisted Baker and Cupcake Counter. Sugar Bliss was bad too, "That place is the pits.…
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Vietnamese Hot Pot With A Twist
This post was originally supposed to be a recipe post about Vietnamese-style hot pot... but then it sat in my drafts for a week. And now I'm at the point where I've eaten hot pot six days in a row.... It's quickly become a favorite of my friends because it is inexpensive to make and…
A Little Fancy Dinner
My roommate and I decided to have a "boujie dinner" the other night, and I just wanted to share a few photos! We went to Whole Foods to pick up our regulars (Halo Top and stuffed grape leaves) and left with a little more than expected! We had mini quiches from the Whole Foods frozen…
Yums of the Week #4
Sorry that this post (and the link round-up) has been so late this week... this week has been crazy! Blog posts are coming, I swear. ANYWAYS, besides grape leaves and the usual, the Yums of the Week for this week are pretty diverse! I'll link the necessary recipe posts here, if there is a corresponding one.…