Category Archives: shrimp
Not a Victory Garden
Many years ago, after spotting one dangling modifier too many in my local paper, I picked up the habit of reading the New York Times. Because I am a goddamn liberal, I have continued to read the New York Times … Continue reading
Filed under cantankerousness, noodles, salads and vegetables, shrimp
The Inimitable Shrimp Ball*
Despite what yuppies would have you believe, processed foods are found all over the world, not merely in the poorer and therefore less virtuous parts of America. Where the West has spam, bologna, and hot dogs, the East has fish … Continue reading
Filed under chinese-ish food, shrimp, whimsical and strange
Wine
Wine plays an important role in my family’s holiday celebrations, mostly because we can’t be bothered to drink it at any other time. My parents have a modest wine cellar — ok, a plastic wine organization cube from Target — … Continue reading
Authentic and inauthentic Chinese food
Because I learned to cook from a Chinese woman, namely my mother, many of these recipes will have an unmistakeable Chinese influence. None of them are to be mistaken for authentic Chinese cuisine. However, if you still crave authenticity, I’ll … Continue reading
Filed under chinese-ish food, shrimp
