Edible Memories

Chili-topped garlic cheese grits

nobody@vox.com(Lucy) — Sat, 17 May 2008 18:06:15 -0400

Story time! So I'm feeling under the weather this weekend. I thought I was getting another wave of allergies, but then my throat started to feel sore, and pretty soon I was feeling weak and mildly feverish. I realized that I must have a cold of so...

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Shanghainese stir fried rice ovals (上海红烧炒年糕)

nobody@vox.com(Lucy) — Sun, 11 May 2008 22:44:02 -0400

The Chinese sure seem to know how to make dozens of starch variations using rice. Aside from white rice, there are rice noodles, rice noodle sheets, edible rice paper, rice milk, rice flour, glutinous rice and its various incarnations. One particu...

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Essential Baking Repetoire: Chewy Sugar Cookies

nobody@vox.com(Lucy) — Thu, 08 May 2008 01:18:16 -0400

I told you that my favorite sugar cookie recipe of all time was coming up, and now I'm finally delivering. This chewy sugar cookie recipe is one that I hold absolutely dear to my heart. It was one of the first cookies that I made successfully when...

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Yang Chow Fried Rice, Improvised

nobody@vox.com(Lucy) — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:34:08 -0400

On a night when I was particularly busy trying to meet a submission deadline by midnight, I asked my boyfriend to make dinner for us (which I planned to shovel into my mouth at light speed before returning to work). He wanted to do something simpl...

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Simple oven dinner - baked sweet potatoes and drumsticks

nobody@vox.com(Lucy) — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:06:34 -0400

There are days when I just can't bear the thought of firing up a skillet and hovering over a stove for an hour just to make dinner. For those times, I like to rely on my trusty drumsticks and a coating of Shake 'n Bake to take over. But as the pri...

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Happy belated birthday to me :)

nobody@vox.com(Lucy) — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:48:56 -0400

Yesterday (which was just an hour ago) was my 23rd birthday - the beginning of the age when we are expected to suddenly go from college students to being grownups. How intimidating! Things have been going quite smoothly in my work life, and in the...

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Coconut Banana Trifle with Orange Chiffon Cake

nobody@vox.com(Lucy) — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:32:27 -0400

Updates have been sparse lately because I had a wisdom tooth out earlier this week and was not up for cooking nor blogging, but I'm happy to say that I'm back to eating solid foods again :) Last night I found myself once again the usual predicamen...

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Essential baking repertoire: Chocolate chip toffee blondies

nobody@vox.com(Lucy) — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 15:03:57 -0400

Although I strive to bake interesting and creative items when I can, there are certain classic baked goods that I want to make sure I've made at least once and succeeded at, if only to be able to whip out a simple dessert for a backyard BBQ somewh...

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Pan-seared silken tofu with pork & onion gravy

nobody@vox.com(Lucy) — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:10:45 -0400

I know, I know... nobody uses silken tofu to make pan fried tofu chunks because it falls apart too easily. But I had a dinner to whip up and what I had at hand was silken tofu. My boyfriend told me that his family sometimes makes a dish where they...

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Dry fried beef chow fun

nobody@vox.com(Lucy) — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 21:33:45 -0400

I think dry fried beef chow fun is one of those Chinese restaurant dishes that you either try and love or you get unlucky with a badly done dish and hate it. For the most part, I think it's hard to mess up - the usual culprit in a bad beef chow fu...

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