lokokitchen

Date: December 28, 2017

Grape balls of fire! 🍇🔥

Date: December 26th, 2017

I must be a doughflake because I’ve fallen for you. ❄️| We got a rare white Christmas in Seattle, and I could not have been more stoked to stay inside all day, cozy in my fugly sweater and surrounded by my boisterous family and endless salty snax. 🙌🏽| I didn’t spend much time on @instagram, but was frostsmitten by your @lokokitchen creations! 😍I know I missed a ton, so give me a shout and tag me in the photos! I dough want to see. ✌🏽

Date: December 22nd, 2017

Shingle bell rock. 🔔| I keep trying to make holiday-themed happen. It’s not that I don’t carrot all, but then nature shows up being all LOOK AT DEEZ COLORZ and I’m crust at her mercy. 🤷🏻‍♀️I Earlier this week, I popped into the @allrecipes test kitchen to do a lil’ pie demo and the step-by-step is in their story highlights!! Look for the little circle highlight labeled @lokokitchen! Light and love and the biggest slice of pie to you all this season! 💛

Date: December 20th, 2017

Blue, what, where, when, pie.🕵🏻‍

Date: December 14th, 2017

Right back matcha. 🍵| @oh_sweet_day’s matcha custard tart with a coconut crust and a full slate of dragon fruit tangrams. 🐲| Attention: PIE PEOPLE. 🚨 Are you still holiday shopping and looking for the perfect present for the bakers in your life (fun ones only, plz)? My friend @dobey562 invented a real board game called Pie Town 🥧 and it’s officially available @amazon and local game stores!! Prime that ish and get it in time to supies your peepz Crustmas morning. 🎄Link in my story! #notsponsored, I just have really cool friends! 😎

Date: December 12th, 2017

Over the river and through the woods, to cranmother’s house we go. 🔴| Fresh @paradise_meadow_cranberries cozily nestled in @emcdowell’s peanut butter pie crust to bring a festive twist to the age-old PB&J pairing. Want to get in the holiday spirit but still need the comfort of the classics to get you through the cray? Take my crand and don’t let dough. #sponsored

Date: December 4th, 2017

Friend or foetato? 🥔| Spud redux of my pear tart with red, purple, New, and sweet potatoes (all hand-sliced because I’m a masochist and I still can’t decide on a mandolin) and melty Raclette. Carbz and cheese: the lifespud of Mondays, amirite? 🧀

Date: November 28th, 2017

Together, we are inquinceapple. 💪🏽| There’s a contingent out there with v strong feelings about the fact that I don’t *always* publish post-bake photos to my feed (keep an eye on my stories!). No, the crust designs are never as precise afterwards (I’m not butter sorceress @karinpfeiffboschek). Yes, this clearly means I’m a fraud. 👻 #yeahbutwhatdoesitlooklikebaked is now our favorite joke to throw around at home (find yourself a nice troll/bae tho). Brb, getting bumper stickers printed for Christmas. 🙃

Date: November 24th, 2017

Lost for curds. 🤭| Cranberry curd tart with persimmon tangrams. Three months ago, I started @lokokitchen to separate all my dopey food photos from my personal account. And by some stroke of wild internet magix, here we are. 😳 I’m perpetually shocked, a bit overwhelmed (omg, I can’t keep up...sorry if I’ve missed your tags/comments!), but mostly just really grateful. There are legitimate food legends advocating for me, strangers from all over the world cheering me on, and a deep reserve of family and friends so generously sharing their expertise and resources to propel me on what is now a real journey. I’m truly just a humble nerd puttering around in her home kitchen. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Thank you for your enthusiasm and excitement. Pie’m so thankful you’re here. 🙏🏽

Date: November 21st, 2017

Go boldly where no cran has gone before. 🔴| Preempt any holiday piesaster and snag a bushel of plump, fragrant, and most notably, high in pectin cranberries from @paradise_meadow_cranberries for a guaranteed jammy filling. Last year, I brought an overly juicy, undercooked pie to Thanksgiving dinner and had to sit by mortified as my in-laws politely insisted on eating their slices, oozing raw bottoms and all. Crust me, it was a dough blow. SAVE YOURSELVES FROM IMPENDING DOOM—do what you cran, do what is pieght. 💪🏽 #sponsored

Date: November 16th, 2017

Baby, it’s gold outside. ✨| When time is limited (that 8-5 grind, amirite?) and the weather outside is actually frightful, I’m constrained to the ingredients in my fridge. Not sure there are many pomegranate goldenberry tarts out there...especially not ones that accidentally embody a vague bacon aesthetic. 🤣🥓| Don’t forget to peep my story takeover @food52! My purple sweet potato pie crust tutorial (and #pundercover treasure hunt) is only up for a limited time! 😘

Date: November 14th, 2017

More than sweets the eye. 👁| @food52’s Sweet Potato Pie with a PURPLE sweet potato twist! A spudderly fun and colorful option for the Thanksgiving table among the traditional golden, orangey hues. A tutorial for constructing this crust will be out sometime this week. Keep an eye on my stories for the exciting details!

Date: November 9th, 2017

A breath of fresh pear. 🍐| Cardamom-spiced cream and cinnamon-scented wine-soaked pears layered on buttery shortbread. It’s crust pearfect for fall.

Date: November 7th, 2017

Ring around the cozy. 🧡| @taraobrady’s Chai Masala Pumpkin Pie via @food52. Considering my lifelong allegiance to Team Apple, this was a wildly convincing argument for the Pumpkin Posse. You’ve gourd to give it a chai. 🙃

Date: November 2nd, 2017

Puns N’ Roses. 🌹| I know, snore, everybody’s doing the rose apple thing and no one can touch Queen @julie_jonesuk’s technique, but I had to try it (verdict: v slippery). Pink apple rose tart with dulce de leche crème and sugared pecans for glittery crunchy bitz.

Date: October 30th, 2017

Not for the faint of tart. 👹🖤| Eva from @bakestreet did this incredible weave with bread and I couldn’t get it out of my head. Her video tutorial made this gory Halloween variation unboolievably accessible. @bakingamoment’s chocolate pie crust with a jammy strawberry-cherry-raspberry filling. | Quería intentar el diseño que hizo @bakestreet con pan pero yo con una tarta (masa de tarta de chocolate por @bakingamoment). Gracias por el excelente vídeo, Eva—fue súper fácil seguir. Acá tienen tarta tipo Halloween de fresa-cereza-frambuesa. 👻

Date: October 26th, 2017

I’ll make it worth your argyle. 😘| Almond Cream Tart à la @davidlebovitz with spiced red and white wine poached pineapple quince (hey there heyyy, @westseattleproduce!). You guys, the internet is such a crazy thing. I’m over here trying real hard to be cool but...OMGGGGG HIIIIIIIII. And thank you. 🤓

Date: October 24th, 2017

Quince U Been Gone. 👋🏽| Quince, apple, and cherry (last of my freezer summer stash 😭) as a hodgepodge backup because I accidentally made an #illuminati crust this weekend and that obviously couldn’t be posted. NOT TODAY, SATAN. 👁

Date: October 19th, 2017

PSLs are how eye roll. 🍂☕️🙄| A tiny pie reprieve with pumpkin spice latte cinnamon rolls as I queue up all my pie-deas for the coming weeks! @sallysbakeblog’s pumpkin cinnamon rolls plus cream cheese icing and espresso glaze.

Date: October 17th, 2017

Caught in the cross pears. ✖️🍐| Miso Caramel Pear Pie with @food52's miso caramel (never making any other caramel) and @handletheheat's crust. Tastiest pie EVAR.

Date: October 12th, 2017

Starry, Starry Nut by Vincent van Dough. ✨| My most cringe-inducing caption yet! Coupled with @joythebaker's (omg, ultimate life muse, amiright??) Bourbon Pecan Pie with Dark Chocolate.

Date: October 10th, 2017

There are far cheddar things ahead than the ones we leave behind. 🏔| @food52's savory Sausage and Apple Pie with a Cheddar Crust. 🧀 MAKE THIS CRUST IMMEDIATELY. RUN GO HURRY.

Date: October 5th, 2017

Cross my tart and hope to pie. 🖤| Cream cheese shortbread tart with Dapple Dandy Pluots(!) from our amazing @tilthalliance CSA.

Date: October 3rd, 2017

Making the best of a plaid situation. 🍁| Heavy-hearted over the current state of national and international affairs. Is it truly so hard to look beyond oneself for a second and exercise compassion and be kind?

Date: September 28th, 2017

I'm not ganache you again... | @livforcake's dark chocolate ganache is berry luscious and rich and tartally acceptable as dinner tonight. You deserve it.

Date: September 26th, 2017

When knit hits the fan. 💩| @batterednbaked is the genius behind this sweater crust, and a sweet little hangover gets the credit for my lack of precision. But since this took FOREVER, I'm probably never attempting it again, so for sweater or worse, this. Love me.

Date: September 21st, 2017

Resting peach face. 🍑| Everyone is deep into fall flavors already, but I'm clinging to every.last.second of summer (even if the infamous Seattle gloom has returned). Also, OMG, HELLO, NEW FRIENDS! 👋🏽 Thanks for all the blueberry love! 😘 Stay tuned for so many more pies to come!

Date: September 19th, 2017

Too bluetylicious for ya babe. 🔵| Yet another trusty pie filling from @bravetart, whose recipes have clearly sustained and enhanced this summer. 

Date: September 14th,  2017

Tomahto never dies. 🍅| @halfbakedharvest's Cheddar Tomato Tart (but I substituted my own carrot pesto).

Date: September 12th, 2017

Well, I'll be yarned. | A slightly modified version of @bravetart's Late-Summer Mixed-Fruit Pie via @seriouseats

Date: September 7th, 2017

Love makes the swirled go 'round. 💛🌎| Apricot Cream Tart

Date: September 5th, 2017

Cluck bait. 🐓| Chicken pot pie with herringbone crust à la @bravetart and @seriouseats

Date: August 31st, 2017

Ombré as the main ingradient.

Date: August 29th, 2017

Life's a peach, and then you pie.