June 5, 2019 In All recipes, Meat, Vegatables

COOKBOOK PRE-ORDER AND PREVIEW: MAPO TOFUMMUS

"IN 2012, IN A FORM OF SELF-ABANDONMENT, I STARTED THIS FOOD BLOG. SEVEN YEARS LATER, I AM ABOUT TO PUBLISH A BOOK ABOUT THIS JOURNEY." [ezcol_1half] I sat here for hours struggling with how to begin the sentence. Stranger things have happened in this world I'm sure, I mean I could swear I saw a sea creature that looks like a glowing condom on the internet, but from where I stand, it doesn't get more inexplicable than what I'm feeling right now. It began in 2012. It was just about two years into our miserable six years-long residence in Beijing. In a form of self-abandonment almost, I started this food blog. With no enthusiasm or objectives, setting out more to be a concession than a declaration, I did what I thought was throwing the white flag to all my other grander ambitions in life, that I was going to be that person, "a blogger", a non-job made up by people whom I judged, past tense, to be minimally interesting that they had to put themselves on speaker. It wasn't brave. It wasn't inspired. It was never expected to arrive anywhere. I was standing on the edge

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May 15, 2015 In All recipes, Snacks, Vegatables

TANGY BEAMMUS WITH SPICY EGGPLANT AND MUSHROOM

BY ANY RELATIVE COMPARISON, IT WASN'T REALLY A BAD DAY IN MY PROGRESS TO MATURITY. [ezcol_1fifth] [/ezcol_1fifth] [ezcol_3fifth] OK, last night, was a rough night. It was at the inconvenient juncture of 3 am, when this garlic-tolerant vampire usually pop herself a good reliable melatonin-jelly bean and wait for it to propel into a semi-decent night of sleep, that she found, Marnie. Of course, to Marnie's fluffy highness, it was no big deal with her mighty presence of 1.4 M followers (M, guys, not K anymore. K apparently is for losers), but for me, for me it was devastating to say the least. The fact that they'd hit that big M, and are still growing, is amazing. To be honest it's making me wonder about how to grow instagram followers myself. There are so many options that I've always been a little intimidated and resulted in just trying to grow my account naturally. However, by reading reviews similar to https://thesmallbusinessblog.net/goread-io-review/, I now have a better idea of where to begin and how to get myself on track for 1.4 MILLION too. It turned me into a living hybrid of Forest Gump and Ewok, two most endearing mystical creatures in the

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March 11, 2013 In All recipes, Meat, Vegatables

turkish kofta platter

I fancy myself as a divine dinner party hostess.  I fancy myself as someone who embodies the total coolitude of Guarnaschelli's professional kitchen-wizardry, set on Martha's pristine estate filled with ponies, and accompanied with Beyonce's crowd.  Someone who could present a seemingly-casual-and-approachable but truthfully-intended-to-shock-and-stun dinner display with nothing but an elegant breeze in and out of the kitchen, in a spotless oh-so-nothing white dress that belongs in Diane Kruger's closet.  I fancy. But the reality is

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