NYC Winter Food Diary

Two words: vodka pie. There’s something that can’t beat the first bite of pizza after you’ve landed in New York. On this most recent trip, it was a vodka pie at La Pecora Bianca – a very simple pizza with a layer of creamy red vodka sauce, dots of mozzarella, and a basil leaf perched…

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Scorpio Season Miso Ramen Kabocha Squash Soup

It’s perfectly fitting that Scorpio season begins right before Halloween and just before daylight saving time ends. Known as one of the witchier, more secretive, and deeply intuitive signs, Scorpio energy mirrors the shift in the season. The days grow shorter, the air turns crisp, and everything feels a little more mysterious. I’m a Scorpio…

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Libra Season Apple Crumble

“Is it basic to love fall?” I asked my work bestie the other day. It’s funny that we live in a time where simply liking a season can land you in a labeled category – a whole “type” of person. Somewhere along the way, fall became pumpkin spice everything. I love that my sun sign…

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Cancer Season Crab Rolls

The astrologers I follow have been talking about how Saturn is currently retrograde, and that we’re about to enter a Mercury retrograde cycle as well. So when they ask, “Do you not feel like doing anything lately?” it makes me think that my own overall feeling of blah might be my body and spirit responding…

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Phnom Penh Noodle Shack

Hubs made another great food discovery in Long Beach. Knowing that the largest Cambodian community in the U.S. resides there, along with a sizable Lao population, he’s been wanting to explore the local spots and try dishes that are totally new to both of us. Cambodian and Laotian cuisines are mostly uncharted territory for us,…

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