Recipes

1 Pan Gochujang lentils stir fry with veggies, served over noodles or rice with pickled cucumber, is a super quick weekday meal. Lentils are the protein for this one-pan vegan dinner, so no tofu or meat substitute needed. [feast_advanced_jump_to] You make this super easy and super delicious gochujang-based sauce that gets added to the lentils and then thickened with bell pepper and onion. I also make some quick pickled cucumber, because they just go so well with these lentils and freshen up the whole bowl. You can also add other veggies, like thinly-sliced carrot and onion, to the pickling mixture. ...

Tucker Carlson and Elon Musk have more in common than you might think — and it isn't just the fact that they shared two hours of giggling bromance on Fox News in what turned out to be Carlson's last major interview before he was fired. In many ways, they've been living parallel lives, from the heights of privilege to the lows of troll-baiting outrage. Both men are on the elder side of Gen X (Carlson was born in 1969, Musk in 1971). Both watched their multimillionaire dads (Dick Carlson, journalist and diplomat, and Errol Musk, part owner of the emerald mine...

MOVIE REVIEW “To Catch a Killer” Rated R. At theaters. Grade: B+ In what could be the first of several films, Shailene Woodley stars as Baltimore Police Officer Eleanor Falco, a deeply troubled, not very well-educated young woman who finds herself in the middle of a giant manhunt when she is chosen by leader Geoffrey Lammark (Ben Mendelsohn) to help head the operation. The target is an unknown man, who has murdered 29 people near the harbor with a Vietnam-era sniper rifle, using the noise of fireworks to cover up his shots and his location. Eleanor has scars on her...

      Puerto Rico is 100% one of my favorite travel destinations that I've visited in the past several years. Whatever expectations I had about visiting San Juan beforehand were wildly exceeded! My Puerto Rico trip was in July 2022, but I was still taking my extended blogging break, hence why I'm finally recapping the trip for you now (nine months later!). This post contains affiliate links. Thank you for supporting Southern Belle in Training!      In March 2021, my friend Liane visited me in Virgnia Beach. She works as a Spanish and French professor at a college near...

Jin Wee Restaurant has Hainanese zi char in East Coast Sometimes, the East makes it really hard to dispute that it is the best side: Jin Wee Restaurant, or Jin Wee Coffee Shop, is the latest discovery to add to the growing list of Eastside gems. Image credit: @n810el Located along East Coast Road, in the Siglap enclave, Jin Wee Restaurant has been around since 1963 and serves old-school Hainanese zi char. The family-owned eatery is popular with many in the ‘hood, and is said to be regularly packed, especially on weekends. Image credit: @feedmethatnow One of their signature dishes is (Charcoal)...