Hello, and happy Saturday! Is everyone feeling bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, having fully shaken off the cobwebs of the last year, and eager to take on the adventures that await in 2025?

Yeah, me neither.

I can’t say that I’m feeling ready for a new year. (There are still folded stacks of 2024 laundry that need to be addressed.) But I do feel up for some refreshing recipes — colorful dishes with vivid flavors, maybe some ingredients I haven’t reached for in a while. I’m ready for recipes that are easy and breezy, reminders that cooking is equally joyful when it’s just for you as when it’s for a home full of holiday revelers.

What I want to eat is a poke bowl — a mound of vinegary sushi rice heaped with soy-dressed fish, pickles, fresh vegetables and furikake. Naz Deravian’s recipe is an excellent blueprint for the poke bowl of your dreams, with instructions for making your seasoned rice and marinated fish and suggestions for garnishes. I’ll throw some kimchi on there if I have it, especially if it’s Eric Kim’s cucumber “quick kimchi.” That’s something that came with a poke bowl I enjoyed in Honolulu, a place I like to return to mentally (if I can’t go physically).

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