20 July 2014
Tri Tip Steak with Chimichurri
My mom makes this amazing steak with an even more amazing chimichurri sauce. I ate this first in a Thai restaurant, but it's actually an Argentinian dish.I (...)
5 February 2015
Fried chinese tsa misua noodles for birthday celebration
Today is my mom's birthday.Misua is a skinny salty Chinese noodle from Fujian province, where my ancestors are from. It's the "longevity noodle" so we always (...)
8 April 2015
Game of Thrones Bean and Bacon Soup
Happy Easter Monday! Here's an easy Bean and Bacon Soup from theofficial Game of Thrones cookbook(from The Wall, hence me scaling up a ladder).While social (...)
17 April 2015
Miso glazed Chilean sea bass
So I had probably the most eventful week of my life. One, I got my boards scoreand not only did I pass, I managed to rock it(yay!) - that was a huge relief off (...)
14 December 2016
Curry Coconut Butternut Squash Soup
I have a new camera lens which I'm pumped to use. This is my Christmas/birthday gift from my family, which I also opened and used (I know, you must think I (...)
1 June 2017
Chocolate Coconut Cake with Coconut Frosting
Layered cakes are such a labor of love, so they're only reserved for special occasions... like a fabulous friend's birthday! I've been super excited to share (...)
13 July 2014
Roast beef sandwich and kale side salad
In the ER, you hear and see all sorts of things. From "I was reincarnated into 3 persons - black, white and Mexican" to "my dad is a green power ranger" to "I (...)
4 November 2018
Filipino Ube (Purple Yam) Ice Cream
Ube ice cream is one of my favorite flavors. It's a staple flavor of desserts in the Philippines - I can't describe what it tastes like, so you'd have to eat (...)
7 January 2015
Nordstrom's Cilantro Lime Shrimp Salad
We have a special guest post by my teen brother/sous chef!It was unfortunately dark by the time we photographed, but he did a great job and wanted me to post (...)
9 November 2014
Ginger Sesame Chicken Salad
Another quick and easy dish - ginger sesame chicken salad! I'm on a salad roll lately. Probably because I did my Cardiology elective and I feel like a huge (...)
19 July 2018
Double Dark Chocolate Cupcakes
A cake is always so much work to assemble, but the cupcake is very conveniently portion sized, cute, and ready to decorate. I made these cupcakes for our VA (...)
23 April 2015
Egg Drop Soup with Fried Wontons
Another month, another rotation - Neurology has been by far the most foreign one. From squinting at MRIs ("oh yes, I definitely see that tiny blip on that (...)
10 September 2014
Dragon fruit sorbet and ice cream
Pitaya (aka Dragonfruit) was on sale so I couldn't resist trying it. I always try to buy a random ingredient I've never used before and see how it tastes. (...)
9 July 2013
Mascarpone cheesecake with almond crust
Apparently adding either sour cream or marscapone makes the cheesecake lighter (marscapone more so). I've made cheesecakes before but I really like this one (...)
17 July 2017
Nutella Banana French Toast
We recently had a family reunion where everyone went to Canada! Because of work, B and I could only catch the tail end over the weekend (only Montreal) but (...)
29 July 2018
Lemongrass mint arnold palmer lemonade tea
There's been a big heat wave with our families enduring triple digit temperatures. Luckily, it's been somewhat milder for us in the northeast.Today's (...)
23 March 2014
Pepper crusted ahi tuna steak and tuna sushi roll
For our anniversary, I wanted to try the fanciest sushi place in town since all my friends had been raving about its happy hour. I figured an anniversary was (...)
20 May 2017
Pina Colada Smoothie
Sharing more Dominican republic adventures on this post! When we first arrived on the island, we were both exhausted. I had just taken my medical licensing (...)
2 October 2017
Butter Herb Lobster Roll
I had eaten lobster rolls before, but had no idea until moving to the Northeast that there were so many variations.When we moved up here, B learned about (...)
20 December 2017
Peanut Butter Banana Dog Treats
Can't belive Christmas is almost here! How time flies - I miss the days of having "winter vacation," but I'm busy working in our cancer hospital on oncology (...)
18 September 2013
White wine peach sangria
My high school friends, Jo and Cristina, visited me for the weekend again, and they brought a bottle of peach white wine from Fredericksburg, a cute little (...)
25 November 2014
Sesame Chicken Fingers with Spicy Orange Dipping Sauce
I'm on my pediatrics rotation now; these are by far the most adorable patients I've ever seen! During ER, I had a beautiful 8 year old boy as my last patient (...)
11 September 2016
Chocolate chip zucchini bread
I organized a trip to the beautiful Lyman Orchards, an hour away, in excitement for blueberry picking at the recommendation of one of my residents. On Friday, (...)
9 June 2014
Amoy lumpia chinese lumpia
Recently I made a mad dash flying (or rather,hobbling like a crippleas stated by my dear brother) to see my sister graduate from college. Them, this past (...)
