From the category archives:

Rice & Noodles

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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Orzo with Brown Butter and Cinnamon + Winners of tsp spice contest

March 2, 2008

Learn how the Steamy Kitchen household decides what to eat…

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Vietnamese Pho: Beef Noodle Soup

February 9, 2008

What the Pho?!
I’ve been working hard perfecting the techniques and recipe for Vietnamese Beef Noodle Soup, or Pho, just for you. It’s taken years of kitchen experiments, eating out and scouring for good recipes. Of all the cookbooks that I own, the best recipe that I’ve found for Pho is from:
Andrea Nguyen’s Into the Vietnamese [...]

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Fried Noodles with Garlic Shrimp

January 26, 2008

Chinese New Year is coming up in just a couple of weeks! It will be the Year of the Rat!

I’ll be sharing some of my favorite Chinese dishes with you – easy meals that you can whip up for the holiday. Chinese are big on food symbolisms ….

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An Ode to Spam + SteamyKitchen Care Package Contest

December 28, 2007

Before we tie a big, fat bow on this year’s box of ups, down and go-arounds, I‘d like to give props to Spam, the wondrous food that started my relationship with Creative Loafing (the newspaper that I write a weekly food column for) earlier this year when I dared editor Max to lose his …

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