It is 2020 and We Are Food Blogging, Baby!

For the last couple of days I've been feeling a... tingle in my throat. Maybe imagined? I don't know. I can't tell. So anyway, the thing I want to head off a cold is always my mom's chicken soup. I'm in Taiwan, and I'm also finally out of mandatory two week quarantine. That doesn't mean that I'm wandering around a lot for fun, though. To be frank, I find the outside world incredibly frightening, even though Taiwan supposedly has it under control and contained right now. But who knows?? It only takes ONE person to spread it around because they want to eat at the buffet, right? So I've been going out minimally, mostly for groceries that I hose down with alcohol spray as soon as I get home. Anyway, yesterday I went out to Nanmen Market which is one of two wet markets near my apartment. Yes, I have TWO. One that is a traditional open air market that is crammed in the maze of alleys behind a bunch of store fronts and is only bustling early in ...

Like Vivian, I too have been re-watching Vanderpump Rules for a significant chunk of the past several days. But I have also been cooking and trying to virtually help others with their cooking, because not everyone is used to making so many meals for themselves, and I wanna help!  Full disclosure: I tend to improvise a lot in the kitchen and rarely use precise measurements. My base knowledge for cooking comes from both of my grandmothers, and they seem to share a kitchen philosophy that's summed up by "idk cook it until it's done." I will try to be as specific as possible when sharing recipes but no promises! Yesterday, I had some fresh tomatoes that I needed to use up because access to fresh produce is probably going to be dicey for the next few weeks and I don’t want anything in my fridge to go to waste. Soup is always an easy thing to do with random shit I’ve got, and that seems to be especially true during self-quarantine. Soup! The ideal social-distan...