I wasn’t going to. I wasn’t going to write the ubiquitous blogger’s Resolution list. I figured any blogger who’s anyone is posting the behavior changes they’re hoping for most this year, and the world sure doesn’t need one more of those lists. But, I changed my mind. Only because I was inspired* to create the…
Bibinka
Tonight will be an Asian Feast re-run, but instead of the Korean pancake, Hotteok, for dessert, it will be the Filipino sweet rice and coconut cake, known as bibinka. Such a delightful word. This recipe comes courtesy of one of my favorite cooking authors, Mark Bittman. I recently treated myself to his expansive and wide-ranging…
First Food Challenge of 2020
Having spent nearly the entirety of both (our)Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Eve cooking, I find I’m facing a question that has never occurred to me before. What, exactly, do I like to cook? And, inevitably, that question led to more. What, in fact, do I like to eat? Perhaps what prompted this is my reflection…
My Vanity Fair Interview
This post is inspired by the last page of Vanity Fair, a magazine I subscribed to on a whim a few years ago. Of course, the writing is excellent, and the fashion and extravagance of the lifestyles they feature provide a decadent escape into a completely foreign world to mine. In every issue, the last…
A Relaunch, of Sorts…
In Which I Broaden My Scope When I first launched Rebellious Belly, I meant the content to always be linked to food. It was summer, I was on vacation from teaching, and I had all kinds of positive energy behind this project. I had a vision in my mind that the enthusiasm I felt at…
The Rotation- Part I
In Which I Decide What Meals Make the Cut Everyone who has prepared food, whether a cooking devotee or not, can relate to the moment of complete brain freeze when thinking about what they want to have for dinner. I have been cooking for myself, and then for my kids, for nearly twenty years now,…
The Two Posts that Almost Were…
In Which I Present Two Half-Developed Posts from 2018 Starting a new habit is hard, even when it’s something you’re passionate about. After many years of thinking about writing about food, 2018 was finally the year I actually started doing it. And it’s hard. And I’m not terribly good at it. I’m even worse about…
Food Bloggin’ ain’t easy
No doubt a lot of bloggers will disagree with the title I chose for this blog post, my very first post of many to come. Those bloggers…..they might be right. But I say bloggin’ ain’t easy, at least for me, because I’ve been “working” at it for a few weeks now, and these first sentences…
The Boy’s Birthday Feast
In Which We Celebrate! For as long as forever, my kids’ birthdays are celebrated with a feast of their own choosing, and whatever birthday cake they want. About a month ahead, planning begins with them deciding their special dinner. They can choose anything they can think of, but it seems that usually they pick something…
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