Kristina Cho

Savory Millet Jook 🍲 This is a recipe I've turned to again and again during my pregnancy as I've navigated loss of appetite, food aversions, and the dreaded gestational diabetes. It's delicious, comforting, and stabilizes my blood sugar! Feeding my...

Learning to cook sideways and a few inches further during this third trimester 😅

Cantonese Beef and Bean Curd Stew 🍲 a nostalgic meal I've been enjoying practically my whole life ☺️ I made this twice for my in-laws in December and my parents made a version with oxtails for the holidays and still not sick of it! Perfect winter foo...

This Year's Holiday Cookie Box! Hand-formed Pistachio Butter Stuffed Shortbread Sparkly Gingersnaps Miso Browned Butter Buckeyes Mocha Matcha Festive Cacti Chinese Five Spice Glazed Tiles Recipe details are in this week's newsletter!

A long day prepping for our holiday party ✨officially done hosting for the year 🙃 Our menu: Latkes with sour cream and applesauce Flat and Crispy Shrimp Dumplings Shrimp Cocktail and Dungeness Crab Tower (thank you for the gift of crab!!!) Chili Ph...

Japanese Sweet Potato Coffee Cake with Butter Glaze 🍠🧈🍯 need I say more? Recipe is in the latest newsletter and linked in my bio!

A casual day cooking Thanksgiving dinner! Started at 10am, ready to eat by 4pm! The night before I prepped my dough, puff pastry, and broke down/dry brined the turkey to save a couple hours! Recipes are on my newsletter unless otherwise noted! The...

Dungeness Crab Mac and Cheese 🦀 A cozy Bay Area Thanksgiving tradition! Full recipe is in the latest newsletter and linked in my bio!

Char Siu Stuffed Bo Lo Bao 🍍 I know we're hyperfixated on Thanksgiving food but I really couldn't move on with my life until I satisfied my craving for these. If you cross the recipes for Bolo Bao (pineapple buns) and the Char Siu Bao (bbq pork bun...

Feeling thankful about our sweet little squash and so excited to stroll through our favorite farmers markets as a family of three next year 🥰

My award medals just arrived and I am freaking out all over again! I was not able to go to the awards because I was busy getting married and I found out I won right before putting on my wedding dress. So it was really difficult for me to process my ...

🍋 Meyer Young, our little MY Guy 💛 named after his great great grandpa and great Goong Goong! He joined our family in the early morning of Pi Day, which feels so appropriate. Parenthood has been the most beautiful, deeply transformative, and tiring ...

Today's afternoon coffee break: Iced Coffee with Strawberry Cold Foam made with ! I look forward to the ritual of making my special afternoon coffee just as much as actually drinking it. I used Peet's Middle Ground, which is half caffeinated and ha...

☑️ Breakfast Moo Shu-ritos! Crossed these off the postpartum freezer meal prep list but I think I need to make another dozen because I fear I'll eat all of them before baby gets here 🌯 each is filled with soft scrambled eggs, hoisin mushrooms, caram...

☑️ Steamed Egg Breakfast Sandwiches! One more item off the postpartum freezer meal prep list! I made a dozen of these in about an hour thanks to my new favorite way to make a slab of tender eggs! Full recipe is in today's newsletter and linked in m...

Postpartum Freezer Meal Prep Part 1: Dumplings! ☑️ Har Gow/Shrimp Crystal Dumplings (recipe is in Mooncakes and Milk Bread) ☑️ Cho Family Dumplings (recipe is in Chinese Enough) ☑️ Spiced Chicken Momos (recipe is in my newsletter)

Spend a morning with me and a warm mug of ! Mornings lately have been starting with a pot of Peet's newest medium roast, Middle Ground, which is a blend of regular and decaf beans, making it perfect for someone like me, who is watching their caffein...

Chia Pudding but in the style of Chinese Dessert Soups! Currently loving a mix of black sesame and matcha flavored puddings 🩶 think of the seeds like sago or the thick texture like the sweet soups thickened with glutinous rice flour. Next I want to m...

Happy Year of the Horse 🧧🎊🍊🐎🏮 We normally celebrate with a big Chinese dinner but I'm taking it easy this year by growing a Fire Horse instead and making a dinner for 2 of Scallion Oil Noodles (with handmade noodles!) topped with Tea Brined Duck Bre...

Giveaway time! I'll make us some Torched Salmon Dons for lunch while you win a BALMUDA the Toaster Pro and a copy of For The Love Of Kewpie! Here's how to enter the sweepstakes:⁠ Fill out the entry form linked in my bio and follow , , and . All qua...