Welcome
Embrace the chaos. Embrace the imperfection of life – and do it through cooking, growing, and eating good food. Do it with me.
Embrace the imperfection.
Let good food, stories from where we come from, and nature be our guide to finding the beauty in the imperfection of life.
If you’ve been at it for too long, stay for a bit.
What You'll Find...
Simple, cozy comfort dishes that blend family tradition and creative ways to “use what we got” — food scraps, left-overs, and ingredients grown from our very own regenerative Garden
Better known as Hongshao Paigu, 紅燒排骨 When I want traditional home-cooked Chinese food, I think of this dish. When I want something savory, tender, and soothing, I salivate at the thought of...
Cook like a pro without all that PFAS Steel pans are one of the few solutions to cooking without PFAS or “forever chemicals” because they’re naturally non-stick — if you know how...
Brussel sprouts are among our delicious and decadent vegetables list. Their buttery flavor and hardy texture makes it a great healthy side to balance out a good hearty main dish. What about...
Tom kha, a lemongrass coconut soup and a Thai classic. This is the ultimate soup for fragrant, bold, and pungent flavors. Just one sip and I'm immediately taken back to the markets...
Miso soup, but with a thicker and richer flavor using pumpkins. This Miso Pumpkin Soup serves as a vibrant and flavorful side or start to warm up any meal. Simple, flavorful, and...
See what’s growing in the Garden, and how we grow the vegetables and fruits that make up our recipes In the Kitchen. Hint: we grow our food using regenerative practices by putting soil health at the heart and center of everything we grow.
Regenerative Care, Hand-Pollination, & Delicious Recipes Passionfruit (Passiflora edulis), known for its tropical flavor and whimsical, vibrant features, pack quite a culinary punch to any dessert dish and cocktail drink. It's also incredibly...
Create the most memorable, fun-filled and tot (and mom)-approved construction-themed birthday activities by up-cycling and re-purposing what's readily available to minimize waste and keep costs low. Let's face it. Throwing themed parties can be...
Tis the season. You’ve got a tree exploding with lemons, but don’t know what to do with them.Sure, you love lemons, but surely not this many. More than lemonade and lemon bars Let's...
In the Outskirts
Discover. Feel. Taste.
John Muir, O.G. Hippie and ... Reluctant Fruit Farmer? The path crunches beneath my feet as I look ahead to the grove of little trees. Their trunks wind with character, weathered with age, just tall enough to support a canopy of shade.
Grow, heal, and feel connected through stories from others through their joys, their thorns, and the sweetest moments of life.
Fishing Vessel, Yu Dah. You came into this country without a lick of English.But you spoke another code.In your youth, you trained as a skilled morse-code operator. You studied...
Call it a mid-life crisis. Call it re-invention. Whatever it is, lean into it.
It takes a fire. Change happens in the least expected moments. Like loss, it has a way of taking over. Sometimes, in small and inconvenient yet still so pervasively...
Unpolished. Unrefined.
Unapologetically embracing the imperfection of life
Wabi Sabi. Imperfectly Wabi Sabi.
At Imperfectly Wabi Sabi, we celebrate the imperfections in life. We find beauty in the flaws and the chaos. We believe that damage from being weathered creates its own kind of shine. We’re with you through the journey to find that beauty by sharing stories of culture & identity, navigating life frustrations, and by making and growing good food, as inspired by nature and family traditions.
