Two women of color sharing our love of food, friendship & culture
During lockdown I have made and consumed a LOT of Soy Sauce Eggs. I LOVE them. This recipe from @omnivorescookbook is my hands down favorite. If you only want to make 6 eggs – I suggest making the whole quantity of marinade and storing what you don’t need in the fridge. Because when all the eggs are gone the next…
Salt baked fish. There’s nothing better than a recipe that is as easy as it is delicious. I made this for dinner one night with my younger son. He had been wanting a whole fish and getting him engaged in the cooking process is always easier when there’s a “ta dah!” element to it. Try this super easy recipe, I…
Today for lunch was Crab Cakes and Jacques Pepin’s Napa Cabbage Salad. We’ve started getting crab meat in our weekly food delivery box and have perfected this crab cake recipe. They are very traditional. I honestly think the crab cakes are better if they can rest overnight in the fridge, but sometimes life just doesn’t work like that. Alternatively have…
We’ve all been inside longer than we would anticipated. Planning a vacation impossible, but not doing anything seemed tragic, so we did what we had done for years when the kids were little and packed up the car and went camping. Every step of the way in this pandemic, our kids are looking at how we cope, we are their…
Nothing could be easier to make than some Pickled Shrimp. Like most recipes – tweak this one to your taste. Pickled shrimp are great on a cracker with a splash of your favorite hot sauce or add some to a salad. If you see some beautiful plump shrimp at the market – grab some!
I made this delicious and quenching cocktail for Juneteenth, I present to you the Rum & Hibiscus Ginger Cooler! Juneteenth for those not in the know is a holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in Texas. Here’s a little background: On June 19, 1865 the Emancipation Proclamation was read to the inhabitants in Galveston, Texas. “Now hold up,” you…
