Thai Green Curry with Crispy Duck

Inspired by my go-to takeout order. We are slowly marching through the most miserable time of the year – Winter. The trees look lifeless without their leaves to adorn them. The sun begins its descent too early each day, leaving me trudging home after work in darkness. It’s on days like these that I burrow…

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Dining In Weekly #2

Who said that taking shortcuts was a bad thing? The workweek was (thankfully) cut short by Martin Luther King Jr day and this week’s menu was cut short by work lunches and social outings, meaning I only had to prepare 6 meals this week. The theme of this week’s menu is shortcuts: made clear by…

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Dining In Weekly #1

In for 2024: leftovers This is a series that’s lived ephemerally on my Instagram stories for the last year, but I’ve decided to give it a permanent home on the blog. The essence of Dining In Weekly is a way of holding myself accountable to both the groceries in my fridge and my credit card…

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Simple Vegan Lemon Vanilla Blackberry Cake

Emphasis on the word ‘simple’. This recipe was birthed from scarcity. No eggs or butter in the house, I turned to trusty old Pinterest to find a simple vegan cake recipe and was positively astounded at the difficulty of such a basic task. I didn’t need all the bells and whistles of processed vegan eggs…

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Actuellement: Renaissance in Rediscovering Culinary Joys

Life is beautiful. There’s simply no other way to put it: life is beautiful. I feel exuberant, unconquerable, blissful, at peace with myself in this world. Inhaling, I’m going to take a second to latch onto this feeling and wrap my arms tightly around it. Exhaling, I’m radiating this feeling out to you through your…

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Why is Leaving a Place I Hate so Hard?

I spent the first 19 years of my life in Harare and in the 5 years since I’ve lived in 5 different cities across 3 different continents. The constant change has repeatedly invoked the question of what it means to call a place home. How do I find comfort in places so far both geographically and culturally from where I grew up? What does hominess mean to me? This piece explores finding home away from home and finding comfort in places that you don’t even like.

Eggplant Bulgogi Pizza with Kimchi Hot Honey

#2 in the series of fusing Italian food with non-Western cuisine. I’ve been meaning to do a veggie pizza for a while and this idea has held me in a chokehold for the past few months. Initially, this was going to be an iteration of the Ultimate Skillet Margarita Pizza I posted 6 years ago,…

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