Known for her candid writing, witty sidenotes, and beautiful Instagram page, food blogger Mandy Lee isn’t your regular foodie. Known as Lady and Pups, she launched her blog as an outlet (“a phoenix rising out of the tormenting flames of living there with all its misery,” she writes poetically).
Now with her own cookbook and over 125,000 devoted fans on Instagram, Lee’s blog has outgrown it’s humble beginnings. Born in Taiwan, raised in Vancouver, and slow-aged in New York, and now based in Hong Kong, her recipes include a healthy dose of humor. “For those who are in their mid-30’s sliding towards the big 4, spoiler alert, it’s all downhill from there,” she writes in a recent post, where she shares a photo of spinach pasta. “Nowadays pasta is just a Trojan horse for daily vegetable intake, the ratio of which has gone from 7:3 to 5:5, and something tells me that eventually a plate of spinach garnished with a couple strands of spaghetti is all but inevitable in the very near future. Don’t worry, it won’t be long now.”
Another post includes a tasty looking chicken burger. “Too long has this noble bird been ignored in the race to find an alternative for ground beef in the wake of its impact on global warming,” Lee notes. “And I would just like to say that before you turn to meats grown in a petri-dish, this bird has a secret weapon to be unleashed.”
According to Lee, her recipes are written intuitively, just like the way she cooks. She also admits that before her blog she never used to measure anything during cooking, nor has she ever precisely followed a recipe successfully. But she trusts that you follow her instructions!
