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Chinese Comfort Food
Tonight I made what I consider to be Chinese Comfort Food. When I sat down to my bowl, I felt reassured, familiar, and at home. Obviously, one’s background plays a major role in what is comfort food, but this was it. I spent some time this morning with The Breath of a Wok, and came out with these dishes: Dry-Fried Sichuan String Beans, Sweet and Sour Cabbage, and Drumsticks with Caramelized Onions.
I started in the middle of the day with the beans, since Grace recommends that they taste best after standing for several hours. This made sense, since it would give the beans time to absorb the flavors of the oil and vinegar. This dish is beans, fried until wrinkled, then added to some fried ground pork, ginger and sauce. It tasted fantastic. The Princess was insisting on eating all of them before dinner after I foolishly gave her an early sample.
The cabbage was actually the last thing I cooked. The flavor was good, but due to some nap issues my wokking was distracted by a persistent small child and I ended up overcooking the dish. The end result was a tasty but mushy cabbage and carrots. Ah well. At least I had tasty.
I cheated. I used my turkey thigh instead of drumsticks. Also I made this in a sautee pan. To make this dish you start with some garlic, ginger and onions sauteeing. When they are “make tasty” as Marcella says, put them in a bowl and set aside. Then cook your poultry. I tried to vigilantly flip my 2 lb turkey thigh, but it was taking forever so I threw the whole thing in the oven. Nothing suffered, and my attention thanked me. After it was done, I put the onions et al back in the pan, added the oyster sauce and sesame oil, and scraped the turkey goodies off the All-Clad into my favorite sauce of recent memory. Also I chopped the turkey into large chunks after letting it rest for about 10 minutes. This made it easy to toss it with the sauce.
I cooked up some rice in the cooker, and dished it all up. The girls were happy, although I still don’t think J knows there was pork in the beans. Shhh. All the recipes were beautiful, easy enough to cook, and the only failure in the whole evening was my fault. You can’t ask for much more than that.
p.s. for full size pictures, head to my flickr page.
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That is one righteous looking meal!
posted by: jimus | March 22, 2006 08:41 AM
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