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Fast Recipes

“Meat” Fried Rice – Four Ways

July 8, 2008

My editor, Jeff Houck, sent over a picture of pan-fried Scrapple slice and my heart fluttered like crazy. “Scrapple? Scrapple! What’s Scrapple? I asked him,” and within 30 minutes was off to the supermarket to find Scrapple, a distant cousin to Spam.
Yes, I have an odd fascination with meat that comes in it’s own coffin.
“hmmm…I [...]

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Grilled Shrimp Lettuce Cups with Tropical Fruit Salsa

June 25, 2008

I just read an article about a man in India who created a tree that grows 300 varieties of mangoes.
Although the original tree is more than 80 years old, this man has grafted different mango saplings onto it. It’s kind of neat and strange at the same time.
But, it got me thinking: If I could [...]

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Long Life Fertility Noodles with Happy Shrimp

May 14, 2008

Note: this was written for the lovely wedding issue for the Tampa Tribune
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The Chinese culture is filled with food traditions and symbolisms, so much in fact that I could never keep up and remember them all. During the entire 6 days surrounding my wedding, I deferred to my mother to tell me what to eat [...]

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Roasted Duck and Pomelo Salad

April 30, 2008

I know this photo sucks – my kids played with the camera and did something with the settings and I didn’t find out until after the food was eaten!

from my column in Tampa Tribune
Two weeks ago, I took a trip to Los Angeles to teach a couple of cooking classes and to visit family. So, [...]

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Grapes and Grappa, Figs and Olives + Free Cooking Light Cookbooks!

April 25, 2008

Since I’ve been working on my cookbook, which is all about modern Asian cooking, almost everything edible that comes out of my kitchen has been Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Vietnamese, Malaysian or Korean. Yes, it can be tiring and I’m considering starting a new blog called “Steamy Kitchen, UnAsian” just to break the monotony. Gimme some [...]

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