Discovering a Love For Cooking + Pumpkin Soup {The Grove: Recipe Box}
When I first moved to China over 6 years ago, I didn’t know how to cook anything. My greatest feat was boiling eggs to make an egg salad sandwich....
Category: Cooking Overseas
Jungle Camp’s Favorite Chocolate Cake
Before we moved to China, my husband did most of the cooking. Once I became a stay-at-home-mom or non-teaching spouse or (insert organizational label here), however, I figured it...
You’re Speaking My Taste Buds
Food is a language of its own. I moved six hundred miles away from my hometown to go to college. For every reasonably-long holiday, I’d...
Loco Moco – That’s Fun to Say!
I’ve picked up plenty of treasures from my travels around the world, but looking around my house you’d never know it because my collection is a book of recipes...
How to Make Your Table Holy Ground
The train would roll into town in the wee hours of the morning. After a summer away, we were, with a sense of both relief and exhaustion, returning home. Home...
