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ABOUT CHUNGAH
I am the founder, creator, food photographer and recipe developer of Damn Delicious®, a website established in 2011. What started as a grad school hobby using a simple Tumblr account has transformed into my full-time job and business, connecting with millions of readers all over the world with recipes that are regularly featured in major media such as People, TODAY, and Bon Appetit, among many others.
Moving away from sunny Los Angeles, I now reside in the Midwest with my family and corgi crew, cheering on the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Why use Damn Delicious® recipes
- Trusted recipes. With thousands of recipes to choose from, I work with a team of women to test and re-test each and every single recipe to ensure that it comes out successfully in your kitchen (along with hundreds of five star reviews from fellow readers), whether you’re a seasoned chef or a first time cook in your college apartment.
- Focusing on quick and easy. Here at Damn Delicious®, we focus on quick, easy, and effortless dinners for the everyday home cook to show you that it doesn’t take much to make a homemade meal, especially during those busy weeknights between school pick-up and soccer practice.
- Easy to find ingredients. The recipes you find here require minimal prep and feature easy-to-find ingredients, making them no-fuss, affordable, and speedy. We’re talking minimal clean up, versatile pantry staples, one pan dinners, and budget-friendly meals with bold flavors for the entire family or weekend company.
- Tips, tricks, tutorials, and videos. Each recipe will feature helpful tips, tricks, smart shortcuts, and step-by-step videos setting you up for complete success in your kitchen every single time.
Cookbooks
- Damn Delicious: 100 Super Easy, Super Fast Recipes – My first cookbook features 100 recipes including quickie breakfasts, 30-minute skillet sprints, and speedy takeout copycats, inspiring you to whip up fast, healthy, homemade meals that are truly “damn delicious”.
- Damn Delicious Meal Prep – This cookbook is here to help you live a healthier (and more delicious) life! By taking the time to plan your meals, prep ingredients, and do some cooking ahead of time, it’s easy to have perfectly portioned healthy options at your fingertips for any time of the day—all while saving money.
Meet the team
CHUNGAH RHEE
New York, New York
Chungah, born and raised in Queens, is the founder and creator of Damn Delicious, established in 2011. She loves to travel, find new donut shops, and cheer on the Los Angeles Dodgers.
JANA NAWARTSCHI
BIELEFELD, GERMANY
Originally from Germany, Jana is a Boston-based actress, artist, and writer. When she is not on set or roaming the stage, Jana works behind-the-scenes, taking care of all things operational at Damn Delicious.
MARIAN COOPER CAIRNS
BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA
Marian is the food stylist, recipe developer, and art director at Damn Delicious. Based in Los Angeles, you can typically find her eating nachos, pizza and hot dogs for breakfast.
REN FULLER
CHISINAU, MOLDOVA
Ren is the newest addition to the Damn Delicious team as a food photographer. When she’s not shooting or directing, she’s usually adventuring outside, building something for her home, or perfecting the perfect smash burger.
JENNIFER CHONG
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
Jennifer is a food photographer based in Los Angeles. When she isn’t behind the lens, she is adventuring outdoors, traveling across continents, or chasing after her daughter.
KATHERINE IRWIN
NAMPA, IDAHO
As a lifelong food lover and creative spirit, Katherine started working on food photography, prop styling, and food styling in 2020. She loves listening to audiobooks while she crafts, cuddling with her cats, spending time in nature, and enjoying a good iced matcha latte.
LAURA HELLER
LINDSBORG, KANSAS
Laura is a cinematographer and creates the awesome how-to videos for Damn Delicious. When she isn’t behind the camera, you’ll find her songwriting in her home music studio, perfecting a new song on the piano, going on a hike, or getting a drink with friends.
BUTTERS AND CARTMAN
COLFAX, CALIFORNIA
Butters and Cartman are employees of the year for Damn Delicious. You can find them typically sleeping on the job by the toilet or stealing all the underwear and socks.
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Beautiful story – your website, recipes look great and I love your story. I can’t wait to try your scallops tonight. Thank you for your positivity and ray of sunshine in this unusual summer.
Ahhhhh OMG the corgis are too fricken cute and your photography is amazing
Hi Chungah! I am a Covid Cook (meaning Covid has given me an 3 hours of commuting back and I now learning to cook :)) and want to make the garlic lemon chicken thighs on the grill! I can do the marinade and everything but sadly, I am a newby with grilling! Can you tell me how long I cook them for on the grill? We have a super big brand new one so it is amazing to cook ok!!
Thank you so much!
Barbra
Congrats I bought some of your wedding favors at the thrift store today!! Lol
Congratulations on your wedding! Everyone looked fabulous
I’ve been missing your Instagram posts lately and was wondering ( and hoping) all was ok with you, Ben and the puppers?!
During Covid I’ve been cooking up a storm with recipes from your cookbook and emails. Love everything I’ve made and bought a copy of your book for my sister….she loves it too!
Stay safe and I look forward to more great recipes!
Thank you!
also, have you ever grown your own mushrooms? it is super easy and tastes wonderful. i used to be able to buy a box all ready to go but i have also bought packets of the internet. i also remember a greeting card with mushroom spores in it. the fancy mushrooms. you just need a dark area. it is so cool and fulfilling to check on it and come away with handfuls of little gems. I have even gotten a box going with the dirt and white stuff (so scientific) that you can find at the bottom of commercially bought mushroom containers.
your just adorable ! found you on a google search for marinated mushrooms and have bookmarked you to explore your other recipes. thanks for sharing some of your personal stuff. the wedding looked great! it seems your a happy, positive person and boy do we need that now. keep on cooking and thank you.
hi. i didn’t know there’d be another chungah. my korean name is yun chung ah and i hated my name growing up. kids would call me chung chung chicken so i changed it to cassie. but anyway, i found your zucchini recipes and will give them a try. you don’t have the zucchini pancakes recipe though. you should give them a try. congrats on your nuptials. i’m also in chicago.
Hi There,
I go to the blog daily and love your recipes but often don’t make a lot of them because there are no videos to accompany them. Most food blogs have the videos of the recipe being done which makes it super helpful for the person making something for the first time.
I love the recipes and would just love to see the videos too!
Thank you for making such wonderful looking food!
Hi Patty!
We have videos for only select recipes at this time. It is hard to produce them with our team during COVID-19 as we are all safely quarantining. We hope to produce more videos when it is safe to do so.
Stay safe!
A stunning couple Great recipes are just a click away.
Stay safe young lovers & enjoy marital bliss
I just wanted to let you know that I love, love, love your recipes!!!! Also, CONGRATULATIONS on the wedding!! Such a beautiful bride!! The four of you make a beautiful family!!! My husband and I have been married for 27 years and our kids are 2 Jack Russell’s, a yorkie mix (rescued living in the woods behind my husband’s work), a chihuahua that is beautiful little beast and a chihuahua/dachshund (rescued hiding under a semi-trailer in my husband’s work parking lot, in the middle of a storm, scared and hungry)! We enjoy watching Butters and Cartman every day, so thank you!
Congratulations on your wedding! I first stumbled on your website yesterday (7/22/20), when my cell battery died and I asked my 14 y.o. son to look up a recipe for beef Stroganoff, and text it to me for later after my battery charged. He randomly found your Stroganoff recipe at damndelicious, and I made it last night—mmm…mmm…good! My wife loves it. I just had a bowl of leftover Stroganoff just now (7/23/20)—so good! I made it because I knew my wife was going to have a difficult and emotionally taxing zoom meeting at work, and I wanted her to have some “comfort food” for dinner (we both grew up in the 1970s eating Stroganoff maybe once a month)–and I know your recipe made her feel better. I will pass your recipe on to my 6 sisters, who I am sure will love it too. Thanks!
Dearest, dearest!
Congrats to both (or all 4) of you. Your celebratory date happens to be also my only sons’ b-day (1974) and today, actually, your first month anniversary. Enjoy!
A retired single senior and life-long restaurant worker, I find the recipes you offer simple, fresh, healthy & very easy to implement. Very ‘handy’ for singles, especially in light of COVID-19 with its’ restrictions & recommendations.
Stay safe & remain in good health,
George
Congratulations. I admire you going with the flow and making changes. It’s the marriage that is important, not the wedding. Very best wishes.
Love the recipes, go to them often. Love the blog and latest about you, Ben, Butters, and Cartman. Congrats to you all on the Rooftop wedding ceremony. Nothing like Chicago in the summer. I unfortunately/fortunately grew up in the NW suburbs of Schaumburg and Hoffman Estates and now live in a pizza vacuum here in Minnesota. In a toast to your blog, we’re having the damn delicious beef and broccoli tonight. Cheers!
I just found and made the chicken broccoli Alfredo recipe tonight. We all loved it! Coincidentally, we’re currently living in Seoul (I’m from the US, hubby is Korean…a lawyer ). I’ll definitely be making this again and coming back here for more damn delicious recipes. Congratulations on your wedding!
First of all, Congratulations to you and Ben! I hope your newlywed bliss lasts forever! My wife and I are still honeymooning after eleven years together as of June 7th.
Your Brown Butter Sweet Potato Gnocchi is the perfect finishing touch to my latest fusion recipe — Shakshuka, plus pulled pork, then replacing poached eggs with sweet potato gnocchi! Yummers! I’m sure I’ve corrupted shakshuka so much that I would offend any purists by calling it that, so I’ll work on a new name for it.
Just wanted to say Thank You Chungah for your inspiration!
Love the bio and the wedding story. I’m sending a link to your site to my wonderful Korean-American daughter-in-law.
I’m making your risotto with mushrooms tonight.
Thanks for sharing wedding pictures…they’re great “pick me up” during these trying times of isolation and your recipes. Will be preparing your instant pot lemon chicken thighs tonight. Recently retired with expectation that I would share dinner preparation with my wife after rarely (really never) cooking during my workaday life (opted for clean up instead). Try to use instant pot as it limits the clean up to one container plus peripherals for spices, etc. Wife insists on side dishes to go with the “pot” so must learn to multitask after years of resistance, e.g., please don’t ask me to fix the toilet while I’m mowing the yard.