Oh, hi, hello!

Nice to meet you. I'm Linh.

I started this blog in June 2021, when the world was still recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic. The blog was created and continues to exist as a way for me to express myself through food. In the early days of the pandemic, I found myself getting into sourdough baking, just like everyone else who was all of sudden stuck at home. I wasn't too good at it though. There were so many recipes online, each slightly different than the last, and every single one of them sounded so technical. I felt so defeated, thinking sourdough baking was only meant for professionals (or fancy-pants Instagram food bloggers, or my friend, Chris, whose bread causes major envy). Everything changed when I started to embrace my lack of effort. I began trying my hand at no-knead bread and slowly evolved to creating my own sourdough sandwich recipe. A very simple one at that, but it works everytime.

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I'm sharing my recipes here as I make them but to you, they should only be a suggestion. Everything in this blog is. I'm not here to tell you you can't make substitution. You can, and you should. Experiment with different ingredients, flavor, texture. Fail, (cry), re-evaluate, adapt and try again!

I can't tell you how my times I've cried over ruined cake. Every single time, my husband, Barry, reminds me that the journey is just as important as the result and the process of baking and cooking itself brings me so much joy. There is joy in trying out new recipes or ways of cooking, modifying a recipe to fit my liking or what I have available to me, creating a new one from scratch or cooking entirely by feel. There is also tremendous joy in finally tasting something amazing that I've made myself and sharing it with husband, family, friends and community.

Whether you cook for the journey or the result, thank you for being here. Thank you for cooking. Thank you for doing this for yourself as a form of self-care. Thank you for sharing the fruit of your passion with the people around you. Please don't forget to take care of yourself and if you can, people around you.

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