December 20th
12:13 PM

[when a QTPOC sibling leaves a voicemail across state lines & time zones ending w/ “i love you & that’s what it is.”] today.

June 6th
11:21 AM

[dear social networks & so on: i’m going to be distant and quiet, mourning some, missing my ma, angry some, then more quiet this week. to remember and honor someone who has passed, is now an ancestor is humbling yet hard. i will lovingly accept texts, letters, emails, and phone calls if you have any input/thoughts/stories to share.]

April 25th
3:05 PM
[my lolo, sinigang, and… risotto?] food journal 
excerpt:there are few pictures i have left of my childhood due to constant moving, being kicked out, or poor planning, but the ones i have with my lolo in them are the ones i keep plotted in marked places through out my home. one blanketed in the safe journal when i travel from state to state. another, his arm is swung over my lola, her smug hard thick face almost mocking his goofish and clearly smitten love for her. him saying in whatever language suited him best, “whatever, you know you love me.” i bet just after that photo, she swatted him on the shoulder a little, a punishment for making her smirk despite her own unyielding exterior. both of them lodged in a midwestern click of a button, the rural mackinaw city sky vacant without the salt of ocean, this same vacancy dulling the glow of their eyes  if you squint harder at the photo. i can’t imagine that level of missing your family. i also, cannot imagine missing the rituals and ingredients of family practice of eating, to adjust to seasonal harvests, to different food life, altogether, that type of re-training does something to the spirit, doesn’t it?
continue reading here at recipes for the people.

[my lolo, sinigang, and… risotto?] food journal

excerpt:
there are few pictures i have left of my childhood due to constant moving,
being kicked out, or poor planning, but the ones i have with my lolo in them are the ones i keep plotted in marked places through out my home. one blanketed in the safe journal when i travel from state to state. another, his arm is swung over my lola, her smug hard thick face almost mocking his goofish and clearly smitten love for her. him saying in whatever language suited him best, “whatever, you know you love me.” i bet just after that photo, she swatted him on the shoulder a little, a punishment for making her smirk despite her own unyielding exterior. both of them lodged in a midwestern click of a button, the rural mackinaw city sky vacant without the salt of ocean, this same vacancy dulling the glow of their eyes if you squint harder at the photo. i can’t imagine that level of missing your family. i also, cannot imagine missing the rituals and ingredients of family practice of eating, to adjust to seasonal harvests, to different food life, altogether, that type of re-training does something to the spirit, doesn’t it?


continue reading here at recipes for the people.

April 2nd
2:10 PM

[on a pamilya trip to the dog beach: food bringing.]

on a pamilya trip to the dog beach: raw kale salad w/ pecans, carrots, shallots, & lemon/grapefruit maple vinaigrette; clementines; mashed sweet potatoes w/ caramelized onions & roasted garlic; rice crackers; green genmai-cha tea (for the humans). goat cheese & liver treats (for the dog).

before you leave, vegan banana pecan muffins from scratch, tea & almond milk.



March 23rd
7:48 PM

[my bestie just flew in to nyc/nj to suprise me!]

OMG. my partner Allison Joy & homey Rebecca just surprised me! Rebecca just flew in for a visit! i am SOOOOO excited. we are gonna eat some delicious things and talk about what what annoys us and revel in how we are and have been changing the world.

[this is us baking last winter. we have these bake-a-thons sometimes.
it’s a lot of cookies in the kitchen, i’m sayin’.]

#bestie #wegongoeat #familyishere #toobadthewinterstinks