Hey guys happy June!

Welcome back to the blog! It’s been almost a month since I’ve made my last blog post and recipe! How time has flown! To be honest over the last month I’ve been doing a lot of learning, internal searching, and reevaluating my life as well as my content.

I feel like as a creator we sometimes get lost in our feelings and forget that logically progress isn’t linear. So it’s important for us to have self-awareness for when we are feeling some type of way or falling in between the gaps. I think the thing that help me with the most is understanding that this is only temporary, this moment of what you feel may be failure – is only temporary. We just have to ride the wave out and everything will eventually be okay.

So anyways long story short, my content didn’t perform as well as I had expected in my mind. That was my first mistake right there. Expecting things to be a certain way. I came to understand that expectations set you up for failure. So I’ve learned over the past few months that progress is better than expectations. I needed to stop expecting certain results and certain things for myself just because it had worked for others.

I had to learn to dig really deep into the core of who I was and what I wanted. And how I wanted that to be reflected in the content that would’ve put out there. In order to do so I had to learn to be more authentic to myself and who I was, flaws and all. But in the end I learned it was my flaws that defined me for who I am, and truly was meant to be.

So I hope you enjoyed this little mental note. I hope to create these small mental notes as I progress in my journey in this life as a creator and can’t wait to share what’s on my mind every step of the way.

Back to the recipe, I wanted to do a full circle and create some recipes that I did when I first started creating content as a food creator. So one of my favorites is this mango sticky rice dessert. As an homage to my Vietnamese heritage I wanted to make a Pandan version of it and it was a hitter! It’s mango season right now in California and we have just been destroying all our mangoes just to eat with this dish. John loves the pandan flavor, and he doesn’t like Pandan usually so it says a lot. The recipe is below, until next time!

Pandan Mango Sticky Rice

Recipe by Jen H. DaoCourse: RecipesCuisine: asian, thai, vietnameseDifficulty: easy

Servings

4

servings

Prep time

10

minutes

Cooking time

17

minutes

Ingredients

• 2 c glutinous rice

• 1 tsp pandan extract

• 4-6 pandan leaves

• Coconut Sauce

• 1 can coconut milk

• 1/2 c sugar

• 1 tsp salt

• 1 tsp vanilla

• 2 tsp tapioca starch

• 1 ripe mango

Directions

• Soak glutinous rice in water overnight/minimum 4 hrs
• Rinse rice and mix with pandan extract. Place in steamer basket and steam for 17-18 minutes.
• Mix coconut milk, sugar, salt and vanilla together. Remove 1 c of coconut mixture for rice later.
• Take remaining coconut mixture and whisk in tapioca starch. Simmer on low heat for a few mins until it thickens, remove from heat.
• Once rice is done, add 1 c coconut mixture and mix throughly.
• Top rice with coconut sauce and mango slices.