Recipes

Rice, Noodles, Pasta

“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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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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