[Sca-cooks] So... Lunar New Year coming up again!
Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius
adamantius.magister at verizon.net
Sat Jan 28 22:09:42 PST 2006
Hullo, the list!
I've been disgustingly busy and my computer is dying slowly (a
replacement arrives Tuesday, I hear), but the show must go on. The
Lunar New Year arrives in less than 24 hours, and this time I'm not
doing the cooking.
We went to a sort of preview at my sister-in-law's house this
evening, and had a family-style dinner with winter melon soup with
Smithfield ham shreds, followed by stir-fried watercress with
fermented bean-curd sauce, chopped-up roast pig with hoisin dip, soy-
sauce chicken with ginger-and-scallion oil, shrimp and roast pork
stir-fried with asparagus slivers and black mushrooms, plain blanched
bok choy, more shrimp stir-fried with garlic chives, red-cooked
cuttlefish, and, for some unaccountable reason, chopped pig's feet
braised with white radish.
With the exception of the roast pig (bought at a restaurant, I
assume), my mother-in-law did the cooking.
Tomorrow we're going to get up early, see what looks good at the
markets (if we can find a Chinese market open) and go over and cook
dinner at my Mom's house. We brought home a whole soy-sauce-braised
chicken from this evening, so that's one dish, then we have to come
up with a shrimp dish, jai/Buddhist Delight, 2 fried fish and at
least two steamed sweet Chinese sausages, and probably a pork dish
and maybe cilantro egg-flower soup, which is a favorite of my mother's.
Normally, at home, we do a minimum of nine dishes, but my Mom's
kitchen is a little small and we're not ultra-familiar with
everything there, so keeping it just a tad simpler seems like a good
idea.
We'll do our usual household dinner next week; I'm not sure yet what
we'll serve.
Happy New Year to all, and to all a good night!
Adamantius
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