That One Time I Tried Growing Saffron... Almost.
So, last summer, right? I was totally gonna get into gardening, you know? Like, not just, you know, petunias (boring!). I wanted, like, saffron. Cause...
The Thread of Gold and My Messy Kitchen Counter.
Okay, so, like, saffron. We’re all obsessed with it, right? I swear, my Instagram feed is nothing but golden rice pics these days. But, and here's the...
So, I've been on this weird saffron kick lately. Like, obsessed. Not, “I-have-a-problem” obsessed, more of a “whoa, what even IS this stuff” obsessed. It’s just, a little threads of color, you know? How...
The Gilded Dust and My Nasal Nightmare: A Saffron Experiment.
For years, my sinuses have felt like a particularly gloomy subterranean system. Perpetual stuffiness, a nagging drip, pressure that could...
Okay so, last year, my cousion's wife made this fancy, shmancy, basmati rice with something yellow. I’m thinking tumeric and the kind where they all sell near the market but they’d said no. turns out,...
The air in my kitchen, a place usually vibrating with the chaotic hum of family life, felt heavy with illness. It had come with the speed and quiet fury of a particularly nasty cold—the kind that settles...
So, like, I've been on this whole 'trying-to-adult' thing lately, which apparently includes not living off ramen alone. And you know, the internet rabbit hole led me to saffron. Not just for, like, bougie...
Okay, so last week i wuz like, finally gonna bake the “fancy” cookies I saw on that food blog. Recipe called for “top-notch saffron”, yeah rightt, easy for them to say. i felt a tiny heart atttack imagining...
saffron. Like, it's pretty, right? And makes everything taste kinda magical. But also, kinda expensive. So, like, you really don't wanna get scammed with the fake stuff. I once got this thing that tasted...