Author: Lena B.
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Breakfast Nachos
I’d say that almost everything I make is pretty delicious, but some meals honestly feel divinely inspired. This is one of those meals. Breakfast nachos. It all started the evening of Wednesday, February 10, 2021, when I ordered two honey soy salmon tacos with avocado pasta salad and an order of chips and queso from…
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Quick & Delicious Orange and Honey Soy Glaze
If you’re anything like me, you’re always looking for different ways to flavor your food. Salt and pepper go a long way. Garlic and onion (in both their fresh and powdered forms) are pretty much enough to make anything delicious. But when you’re looking for something quick, easy, and super delicious multi-purpose marinade/sauce/dressing/glaze, this 3-…
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How to Dehydrate Strawberries at Home
Here’s just another one of those kind-of-random, but potentially-flavor-changing build block sort of posts. Let’s go over the simplest way to dehydrate strawberries and why you’d ever want to do such a thing. Just some context before we just into this super easy process: I make strawberry cheesecake cookies that everyone seems to love, but…
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My 2021 Reading List: Books Every Black Food Professional Should Read [w/ reviews!]
I’m not huge on New Year’s resolutions, but this year I am vowing to slow down and read more. That means more random research, article-reading, and finally reading some of my friends’ published books. That also means actually reading more of those daily newsletters I’ve signed up for instead of skimming one quickly and eventually…
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Pumpkin Spice & Cream Cheese Pound Cake
I’ve been thinking about pound cake for weeks now, but I didn’t want a plain or a lemon glaze pound cake, even. So when I looked in the pantry and saw the cans of pumpkin puree, that set something off in my mind. I don’t get caught up in the pumpkin spice craze every year,…