It’s time for yet another installment of 8-bit felt fun-ness in the Zhao household! I made these as birthday gifts. The recipients were a 3 year old boy and a 1 year old girl (brother and sister), so something gender specific was definitely in order. I had already started on these t-shirts when Google celebrated [...]

First things first, Alice and I have found it incredibly difficult to come up with a post that could possibly follow after our epic interview with Chef Curtis Duffy. It felt like we just set the bar for blog posts even higher for ourselves. We couldn’t go back to just posting recipes from our midweek [...]

After our awesome meal at Avenues, we had a chance to interview Chef Curtis Duffy and to talk about the James Beard Award gala, his dishes and to also take better photos to justify his amazing dishes. Chef Duffy has been in the business for over 18 years. In his career, he has worked with [...]

A few weeks ago when it was finally warm enough to transplant our seedlings, we picked up 5 plastic bins and eight 40lb bags of soil. All of which we had to haul up 4 flights of stairs to get it to our rooftop. Um, do I have to continuously be reminded of how out [...]

This past Thursday I turned 30. I have been dreading this since the day I turned… 29. I have this completely abnormal fear of getting older and every year this fear only grows. It’s not that I necessarily want to stay 20 something forever. But looking back, my 20s were really amazing years though of [...]