Slice of Rice

Guess what?  We finally finished our week of Chinese New Year meals!  It only took a couple months...  When I first started posting a we...

There is a restaurant in the East Village called Mercadito that has the best shrimp tacos I have ever tasted.  They also make really goo...

Last June I saw this recipe on Serious Eats for Corn Som Tam and got all excited.  Then life got in the way and before I knew it corn ...

The funny thing about this recipe is that I started thinking about kung pao shrimp after Alex pulled down all of our various nuts and co...

This dish was something I randomly came up with one night a few weeks ago while trying to decide how to use the shrimp I had defrosted.  ...

We made chicken pho last weekend (which I will post about later this week - I promise) and we ended up with a ton of really good leftover...

Look - another seafood dish!  Go us!  And this will officially be your last seafood post from us (and potentially your last post) until a...

I am embarassed to say that I have been sitting on this post for a couple of weeks - long enough for me to forget the finer points I migh...

What do you serve when it is entirely too hot outside to cook, but you have raw shell-on shrimp in the fridge?  If you are me, you make ...

    This base recipe for Pumpkin Seed Pesto came from our Susan Spicer cookbook.  And then I took it and served it two ways - one as ...

A few days ago Alex made a comment about how long it had been since we made Asian food.  And looking back, it really has been awhile.  We...

I have been wanting to make Indian food for a few weeks now.  But something always got in the way.  Tonight we finally had the opportu...

Once again I have to thank someone else for finding this recipe.  Alex decided that he wanted to make pickled shrimp so I tasked him wit...

My one pet peeve with this recipe (and with a lot of Chinese cooking) is the amount of peanut oil that you end up using.  So much Chine...

I know that I periodically say that we need to make more Mediterranean food.  I'm not sure why we don't, but when I am menu pla...

Somehow this week has turned into a Mediterranean fiesta.  Can you even say that?  Who knows.  I am saying it anyway.  But thus far thi...

I have had many bowls of chicken tortilla soup over the years, but I have never come across shrimp tortilla soup.  So when I saw this re...

Up until middle school my Chinese grandmother ( popo ) lived with us.  And I always got excited when my other non-Chinese grandmother ...

Every once in awhile my mom will enjoy a recipe enough to pass it along to me.  This was a recipe that she gave me years ago and I neve...

When we got home yesterday after our shopping expedition to Chinatown I realized that we had far too many noodles in the apartment. ...