zillenial nest
Nesting intentionally — one curated corner at a time.
Category: recipe edit
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My dad was undoubtedly the master of weeknight meals in our family growing up. From whipping up efficient beef and onion stirfry’s to executing piping hot bowls of homemade pho in a matter of mere 1-2 hours, from the time he got home from work and then picking up my sister and I from school,…
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Today’s Pasta: This pasta recipe is a chaotic twin sister recipe to my classic with a twist Seaweed Butter Shrimp Scampi recipe. This pasta is for the ones who leave half-eaten jars of tomato sauce in their fridge side pockets for weeks and love their flavors a little spicy, shrimpy, and funky. Gochujang Butter Tomato…
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Series introduction: My feelings about pasta come in two wildly different forms, ironically, both stemming from core college memories. First, are the memories of late-nights writing papers, running about too and fro between campus and my off-campus apartment, and rushed dinners for one of jarred pasta sauce and bags of penne, cooked on tiny stovetops…
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An introduction to this series: I previously was watching this Netflix show, Blank Menu for You, where an introverted chef receives anonymous and story-form meal orders from celebrity guests, and cooks for them to his interpretation of their order. A key tenet of the show is that the guest gives the meal a name once…