Everything but the kitchen sink sandwich recipe

January 23, 2025 by Pihu Jain

This sandwich certainly packs a powerful, flavorful punch and is sure to fill your belly for hours on end.
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New year, new pasta salad

January 20, 2025 by Pihu Jain

As the new year begins, I find myself looking back on my food favorites of 2024. The late-night kimchi fried rice and grilled cheeses were up there, but it was the truckloads of pasta that sust...
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Super Antioxidant Tea Recipe

January 16, 2025 by Pihu Jain

This recipe is highly colorful, refreshing and energizing early in the morning, with cooling effects that are much to be desired as the weather (hopefully) starts to get warmer.
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Spice up your life with these fiery-peanut noodles

November 18, 2024 by Pihu Jain

Everyone has a vice that gets them through the winter months, whether that be pumpkin spice lattes, chai, a favorite scarf or a partridge in a pear tree, you know the stuff. For me, I especially lean ...
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Holiday cheer salad: a recipe to remember

November 7, 2024 by Pihu Jain

I don’t know about you, but the moment the clock strikes midnight on Nov. 1, it’s “White Christmas” and hot cocoa all the way until Jan. 1 (honestly, most years I even start in August, but tha...
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Your new favorite fall drink: Café de Olla

October 10, 2024 by Pihu Jain

The weather recently in Isla Vista has been the harbinger of spooky season: foggy, eerie, the windshields misted with cold, gray air that blankets all, every corner dark and menacing, always looking o...
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Strawberry Avocado Toast: A Summer Delight

July 18, 2024 by Pihu Jain

Whenever I wake to the sweet smell of coffee and a ruckus in the kitchen, it only means one thing: dad is cooking. My father has a flair for the dramatic. Though he is a quiet man, he certainly...
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California Strawberry Festival

May 23, 2024 by Pihu Jain

This past weekend, I had the pleasure of attending the California Strawberry Festival, located in the Ventura County Fairgrounds not more than 45 minutes from UCSB. The festival’s roots can be trace...
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OTM presents: a collection of family recipes for Mother’s Day

May 9, 2024 by Abigail Monti, Urmi Mandal, Nina Timofeyeva and Pihu Jain

In preparation for Mother’s Day — coming up on Sunday, May 12 — On the Menu writers came together to compile a list of our favorite family recipes.
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Nimbu pani, for a simply refreshing time

May 2, 2024 by Pihu Jain

Something deep within my memory was unlocked after months of dormancy as I sipped on nimbu pani (which translates to “lime water” and is the Indian version of limeade) at the Apna Indian Kitchen r...
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Colorful and carefree: a recipe for chuski and a smile

April 18, 2024 by Pihu Jain

Chuski (or gola, depending on what part of India you’re from), is something akin to shaved ice. It reminds me of the summers of my youth, one hand in my nana’s, the other sticky with sweet syrup a...
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Bananas today, gone tomorrow?

February 15, 2024 by Pihu Jain

Layers. Multiple of them can be found in onions, people, paint on walls … too complicated, a lot to reveal, often deceptive once you chip away at them. But you know what is almost exactly what i...
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Bowltober: Dank Bowl Kitchen offers discount to celebrate 10th Anniversary

October 26, 2023 by Pihu Jain

In a clever celebratory and promotional scheme, Dank Bowl Kitchen released a $10 deal for all bowls in the month of October, also known as Bowltober, to celebrate its 10-year anniversary.
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