Recipes

January 23, 2025

The Soup Chronicles: A comprehensive guide to the perfect vegetable soup

By Sneha Cheenath

The Soup Chronicles: A comprehensive guide to the perfect vegetable soup I moved into my Isla Vista apartment in June 2023 for the summer session after my freshman year. My roommates were only joining me in the fall, so ...

January 16, 2025

Super Antioxidant Tea Recipe

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.

November 18, 2024

Spice up your life with these fiery-peanut noodles

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 into the spice facto...

October 10, 2024

Your new favorite fall drink: Café de Olla

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 over your shoulder. A...

May 9, 2024

OTM presents: a collection of family recipes for Mother’s Day

By Abigail Monti, Urmi Mandal, Nina Timofeyeva, 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.

May 2, 2024

Nimbu pani, for a simply refreshing time

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 restaurant in downtow...

April 18, 2024

Colorful and carefree: a recipe for chuski and a smile

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 and sweat.

January 12, 2024

A simple yet flavorful strawberry & brussels sprouts chopped salad

By Katelyn Waters

Get ready to toss tradition out the window and join us on a culinary adventure where strawberries and brussels sprouts unite, proving that in the salad universe, odd couples are always the life of the party!

November 30, 2023

3 soup recipes to conquer the cold

By Felicia Lo

With a bowl of rice or some pasta, these soups can supercharge you and give you the energy you need during gloomy days.

November 9, 2023

Get a taste of home with this apple pie smoothie

By Steven Bizzoco

I have found the ultimate blend of smoothie ingredients to most accurately capture the taste of apple pie filling.

November 2, 2023

FALL in love with this butternut squash pasta

By Anya Kennelly

Why wait for Thanksgiving to have a good home-cooked meal that incorporates your favorite fall elements?

October 26, 2023

Foraging for wild blackberries and spooky stories

By Maya Salem

Regardless of folktales, the blackberry season is an indicator that autumn is coming, if not already here.

October 26, 2023

Bowltober: Dank Bowl Kitchen offers discount to celebrate 10th Anniversary

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.