FRIED RICE by Danielle Centoni | Cookbook Spotlight

Review copy provided by the publisher Danielle Centoni’s Fried Rice delivers bold, delicious dishes that’ll get you rethinking your notion of fried rice. Danielle Centoni's latest, Fried Rice, reminds us there's more to the dish than leftovers. She writes, “[T]his book takes the virtues of fried rice — fast, cheap, customizable — and runs with…

ByMichelleAugust 13, 20190Comments

Main Course Recipes

Deuki Hong’s Kimchi Fried Rice

My grandma's fried rice is sacred. It's been our house recipe since the time before time. But this weekend, I made Deuki Hong's Kimchi Fried Rice and if there's another version to add to your repertoire, it's this one. I tried my grandma's version and added kimchi, but it just wasn't as good as Deuki's.…

ByMichelleAugust 13, 20180Comments

Cooking Recipes

The Rule of Fried Rice

Grandmas are liars. There, I said it. Look inside their recipes boxes or the careful cursive recipes on scraps of paper stuck inside other cookbooks and you’ll know their dark hearts. Lists of ingredients, no amounts, sometimes no instructions. These lies aren’t intentionally meant to deceive. Or to maintain an illusion, like Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny or the Tooth Fairy. These lies are lesser crimes, crimes of omission. But lies nevertheless. Like with my Grandma’s Fried Rice.

ByMichelleMarch 2, 20141Comment

Restaurants

Seattle: Aloha Ramen in Greenwood

If there's a Starbucks on every corner in Seattle, right next to it is a teriyaki shop. We have more teriyaki joints (most of them unmemorable) around here than any other place I've ever lived. In fact, there's one right next door to Aloha Ramen, which just seems crazy to me. But there's no contest -- you want to go to Aloha Ramen. You think you want chicken teriyaki? No, no, you want karaage, Japanese fried chicken, right next door.

ByMichelleJune 28, 20110Comments