Category: Cooking

Recipes for edible creations

  • roasted cauliflower and garlic, sprinkled with ground pepper

    Garlic Roasted Cauliflower

    Cook garlic roasted cauliflower. Recipes comes with notes on varying the ratio of garlic and advice on ways to cook it quicker.

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  • An out of focus closeup of a shiitake mushroom's gills gives the photo a dreamy quality.

    Shiitake Mushrooms

    At the end of last year, I started growing my own oyster and shiitake mushrooms. Watching the shiitakes grow beyond the stage where you would normally pick them has showed me that I really didn’t know shiitakes like I thought. Their shapes can encompass so many frills and scallops that I don’t normally see in…

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  • deli sandwich cut in half seen in elevation

    Vegan Chicken Experiments

    A few months ago, I started trying to make vegan deli meat. The goal was to make vegan, gluten free, soy free meat for sandwiches because I haven’t been able to find a substitute that accommodates all of my food allergies and intolerances.

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  • white models on a white background, from left to right: speaker, drawer pull, speaker, lamp, chess piece, speaker, door handle

    The Cai Modeling Materials, MDes Thesis pt. 1

    For my industrial design masters thesis at the University of Illinois at Chicago, I developed plastic-free modeling materials. Cai Board can serve as a replacement for extruded polystyrene foam. Cai Clay is an air-drying clay that is an alternative to plastic-based clays.

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  • torso reflected in a pot of grease, making the image abstracted so it's difficult to tell what body parts are being depicted

    Eating Myself

    Chinese women and Chinese cuisine are fetishized and made palatable for the consumption of Westerners. I have a number of food allergies and intolerances that have cut me off from eating my grandmother’s food, my Chinese heritage. Experimenting with allergen-friendly versions of the dishes I grew up with is a way to reclaim my heritage.…

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