"As the only Serious Eats blogger in the contest, I had to represent." My Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie entry. Click here for the recipe » I've only been blogging for a few months now, so I was very surprised when Bon Appétit invited me to take part in their first ever Blog Envy Bake-Off on December 10. The first place prize was an all expenses paid trip to Las Vegas for the magazine's Vegas Uncork'd festival. Some of the other competition. To be totally honest, I didn't think I had any chance of winning. I felt like Anne Hathaway going up against Kate Winslet, Angelina Jolie, and Meryl Streep for Best Actress at last year's Academy Awards. Sure, I was... More

As a Korean-American, I am definitely in the pro-kimchi camp. If you're not in my spicy, fermented camp, then please don't friend me on Facebook. I won't defriend you for a Whopper, but for kimchi? All bets are off. Marc, of No Recipes, is definitely in my kimchi camp. He combines classic ingredients from Korean and American culture to create kimchi pork belly pizza, a tasty amalgam of spice, fat, pork, and dough. Just don't kiss anyone afterward. Unless you really love them. Then again, kimchi breath is nothing to be ashamed of.... More

Marc of No Recipes marinates his char siu, or Cantonese-style barbecue pork, for 48 hours before roasting. A mix of hoisin, chili, oyster and dark soy sauces give the meat its gorgeous red color, and maltose (liquid barley sugar with a tar-like consistency) adds crazy, alluring sheen. Don't take your chances with the "overly sweet, grisly, artificially colored" char siu sometimes found in Chinatown. Buy yourself a slab of pork belly--one of the cheapest cuts there are--and follow Marc's recipe to make your own.... More