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Quick food update
27 May 2020 23:23Currently chomping up the bang bang chicken + Lao Gan Ma eggplant, both cold, and om nom nom. I cut down on the sugar in both sauces drastically, which was for the better. I did my bang bang chicken in two batches (and for the second batch, exfoliated my little finger with a kitchen knife while chopping the cucumber *g*) and downscaled the vinegar and sesame oil from the first version, which fit me better.
Other updates from last food post: Beijing duck went wonderfully, A+, duck tastes excellent. I did manage to make decent-ish mandarin pancakes without a rolling pin, though they were quite small. After that luxurious meal, I turned the rest of my scallion, cucumber, and cantaloupe sticks into a salad by adding the tiniest touches of soy sauce, rice vinegar, and white pepper, then ate that with rice and duck slices. Sichuan boiled beef, noodle soup version, was wonderful. Would eat again.
Next up: 15-minute lazy noodles (with bok choy), braised turnip rice bowls, ants climbing a tree, and Cantonese beef rice bowls in an effort to make a dent into my frozen ground meat collection. I'll need some vegetable-y sides for the rest, too – bean sprout stir fry and garlic snow peas stir fry? I'll have to buy turnip, and refresh my stocks of scallion (which is unfortunately a seasonal product here) and ginger, and see if I can fill up my freezer with aromatics again. I also have tomatos, so tomato egg stir fry plus some oyster mushroom eggdrop soup should I have excess eggs + mushrooms available then. (The larger store has a number of nice things not available in the closest one. Like bok choy and more than one sort of mushroom.)
Other updates from last food post: Beijing duck went wonderfully, A+, duck tastes excellent. I did manage to make decent-ish mandarin pancakes without a rolling pin, though they were quite small. After that luxurious meal, I turned the rest of my scallion, cucumber, and cantaloupe sticks into a salad by adding the tiniest touches of soy sauce, rice vinegar, and white pepper, then ate that with rice and duck slices. Sichuan boiled beef, noodle soup version, was wonderful. Would eat again.
Next up: 15-minute lazy noodles (with bok choy), braised turnip rice bowls, ants climbing a tree, and Cantonese beef rice bowls in an effort to make a dent into my frozen ground meat collection. I'll need some vegetable-y sides for the rest, too – bean sprout stir fry and garlic snow peas stir fry? I'll have to buy turnip, and refresh my stocks of scallion (which is unfortunately a seasonal product here) and ginger, and see if I can fill up my freezer with aromatics again. I also have tomatos, so tomato egg stir fry plus some oyster mushroom eggdrop soup should I have excess eggs + mushrooms available then. (The larger store has a number of nice things not available in the closest one. Like bok choy and more than one sort of mushroom.)