Welcome to a Place for Sharing

I started Dash of Soy culinary school in April 2019 because I wanted to share with the world my love for home-style cooking, especially for the type of food I grew up with that is very under represented in the mainstream.

One year later today, I am starting this blog on Day 13 of self-quarantine for COVID-19 outbreak in Seattle to continue that mission online. In-person cooking classes have been stopped since mid-March and I don’t know when that will restart. But I couldn’t stay idle. Because now more than ever, people are cooking at home and could use extra ideas, inspirations, and instructions to make healthy yet delicious meals for themselves and their loved ones.

To stay true to the Dash of Soy cooking classes I have been teaching in Seattle WA, I will be sharing detailed recipes on this blog but also posting the illustrated, step-by-step recipes for you to view or print at home. I am offering this as a free service because I truly think the recipes will help make cooking a new dish or cuisine more accessible. Hopefully when the time comes for me to publish my illustrated cookbook, you will still support me by buying a copy (or two!).

We are all in the midst of it and it feels scary and sad. But all will pass. I am a natural optimist so I am hopeful that despite all the losses and grief and hardship, we will come out the other side…better. Better connected to each other. Better to mother earth by being less wasteful. Better at being grateful. And of course, better at cooking!

This blog started during the COVID-19 outbreak. The pandemic will pass. But the blog will stay.

Stay safe everyone and hope you will try some of the recipes at home.