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I did a lot of virtual cooking classes during the pandemic before things started opening up again after vaccines, and even though I attended...

A quick review for the chicken shu mai at Trader Joe's ($2.99 for 18 dumplings and one soy sauce packet): We love dumplings, so w...

I put off the dim sum challenge for a long  time. The challenge week was in July, and I didn't make anything for it until September. I...

Considering how many food options there are in Flushing, we don't get out there nearly as often as we should. It's only a (relativ...

Last weekend was the annual 9th Avenue International Food Festival in Hell's Kitchen. We've missed it the past couple of years bec...

A while back, we tried some Trader Joe's sriracha seafood potstickers in festive Christmas colors and really liked them. They had a n...

Writing our post about Dhaulagiri Kitchen  recently reminded us about another Himalayan restaurant we visited a couple of years ago - Hima...

Trader Joe's Fearless Flyer for December had tons of new appetizers and frozen items that we had never seen before but sounded exciting...

The Women's World Cup ended months ago, so we should probably finish those challenge recaps... After our Women's World Cup chal...

Early in the World Cup, we checked off South Korea for our WWC challenge. Technically, we didn't have to get Korean food at all for th...