Creamy Tteok, Famous Pumpkin Cookies, and my Grill Pan Manifesto
And September's books! ....Kind of
Hello hello! I hope you didn’t miss me last week, I took Labor Day weekend off the newsletter because these past two weeks have been WILD. Fall is my busy season (remember how I said I wasn’t a fall girl last week? Well, the 65 degree weather has changed me) and I needed to get ahead on some things before I go to Ireland next week! I’m going with Kerrygold and we get to visit farms! I’ll meet COWS and I’m already dying about it.
But don’t worry, you’ll still have your regularly scheduled programming of Tues/Thurs/Sat recipes on IG and ~recipes whenever I feel like it~ on my other platforms. It’s not an exact science, and I keep it that way ;)
Now for the weekly round-up!
Fresno romesco on steamed tteok, a Catalonian/Korean fusion recipe I wasn’t sure about, until I was totally sure about it. Video here, recipe here.
Lemon Dill & Red Pepper Beans - a one-pot transition recipe into fall (it’s pepper season too!), and honestly, this is how I would cook every day if I could. Video here, Recipe here.
How to make apple flowers! So cute for fall and if you’re into charcuterie boards, I highly recommend. Video here.
Grilled corn salad with crispy tempeh and farro - another great transition-to-fall recipe. Video here, recipe here.
Lemon, parmesan & black pepper chickpea crisps - add them to soups, salads, popcorn? Ideal snack. Video here, recipe here.
My grill pan manifesto, along with some “grilled” green tomatoes and cornmeal crusted tofu. Video (Manifesto) here, recipe here.
And every year I have to stake my claim on the pumpkin cookie. I swear, this is the best one you’ll ever have. Recipe here and video below:
And favorites!
This week’s favorites are also going to include the reviews of August’s books! Making this a looooong newsletter, but whatever, it’s cute and we can pretend we’re friends drinking coffee together on a Sunday morning and chatting idk?
So obviously the first favorite is this couch I bought from All Modern. It’s emerald green, it’s gorgeous, and it’s SO COMFY. We’re in the midst of doing a budget-decoration of our apartment (since we never really decorated it in the first place) and this couch is a splurge, but the best thing we’ve gotten so far. Even Eric agrees and says it is excellent for napping purposes.
And along the lines of furniture, this rattan console is back in stock at Target and I can’t recommend enough. I found it on TikTok and bought immediately, and it’s now our couch’s bff <3
Book review
If you remember, last’s month’s book was Dear Miss Metropolitan by Carolyn Ferrell and wow. It is such an emotive and hard read. To summarize, the book documents the lives of three girls who were trapped, tortured and enslaved in a house in Queens for 10 years. It follows both the victims and their children, and I had to set it down just to ~breathe~ multiple times. This book is a “hard” read in the way where the writing is excellent, but it’s something you can’t just breeze through. You have to fill in a lot of gaps and context, and there’s a level of poeticism to it. Similar to Lincoln in the Bardo, it’s not a book I’d revisit again and again, but it has a writing style so unique that I’m glad I read it.
BUT I definitely need something light for September, something breezy that I can read as I drift on an Irish airplane to go meet dairy cows y’know? Will keep you posted, but recs are always welcome!
As for Molly Baz’s Cook This Book, I’m going to sit with it another month before giving my hot and spicy take, I still need to cook more from it, and I’m not mad at having the bright blue aesthetic against my kitchen shelf for a little while longer.
Until next time!
Xoxo,
Snacks