It’s aliiiiiive! Here’s a little update on our urban victory garden. On the day Jared built the rain barrel, I also planted some vegetable seeds in little containers and set them on our window sills. And of course we reused some old lunch containers, tofu boxes, spinach plastic clam shells and styrofoam plates. Three weeks [...]

This week’s been a pesto-filled week for us at the Zhao household. I was going through our freezer the other day and realized we had one last batch of pesto left from last summer’s basil harvest. Score! Usually this means lots super quick and delicious pasta meals. On Sunday, Jared picked up a whole chicken [...]

Last Saturday, we called some friends over to have a very merry truffly dinner. This dinner served two purposes, first it served as a thank you to our friend for helping us do our taxes (I’d celebrate but we had to pay up, big time) and secondly to help make a dent in the large [...]

Spring is right around the corner, or atleast I am going to pretend it is. We’ve been waiting to step up our eco-friendliness game and set up a rooftop garden. Last year, we had only achieved the “starter” level of eco-friendliness by building planters and creating a small herb and cherry tomato garden off of [...]

Being an immigrant from China, Jared’s first memories of St. Patrick’s Day were not of the parades or the 4 leaf clovers or creepy little leprechauns that guarded the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, but it was a single t-shirt his mom bought him that said, “Kiss me, I’m Irish”. It [...]