[Sca-cooks] Okay, it's that time again...
Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius
adamantius1 at verizon.net
Sun Feb 11 18:25:08 PST 2007
...wherein I post the tentative menus for the arrival of the lunar
Year of the Boar next Saturday evening.
As in the past couple of years, we've been trying to simplify things
a bit, but as there are certain dishes more or less required for the
night of the actual new Moon, and we always try to do a minimum of
nine dishes on the first full day of the new year, we're going for
much pre-prep and sort of modular preparations.
New Year's "Eve" -- the usual suspects:
Soup TBNL -- possibly shark fin
Two Fried Fish and steamed lop cheung sausages (eaten the next day
but prepped before sundown, we usually make extra lop cheung and eat
some of them)
Poached Chicken
Plain dry-sauteed shrimp or ketchup shrimp
Plain blanched veg -- probably bok tsoy with a little oyster sauce
drizzled on top
Steamed rice
Fruit -- generally oranges and lichees/longan
New Year's "Day":
Wunhun Mein -- Wonton Noodle Soup to you...
The Aforeseyd Fish and Lop Cheung
Xi yu gai -- Soy-sauce Chicken
The Other Half of the Poached Chicken
Bean Curd "Mock" Duck (stuffed bean curd sheets, braised)
Pei-Dan Dowfu (a.k.a. Chinese Egg Salad, wrapped in lettuce leaves)
Kwangtung-va Chuen Guen, Or, Adamantius Revisits The Old-Fashioned
Cantonese "Egg Roll"
Bacon-Wrapped Shrimp Rolls -- the cheating dim sum version
Jai -- a.k.a. Buddhist Delight, mixed veg and dried mushrooms,
braised with cellophane noodles
Twice-Cooked Pork
Sesame Noodles (actually, sesame dressing and garnishes for those
that don't want their noodles in their wonton soup)
Pickles: shallots, soy-pickled gherkins, shrimp pickled with
shredded green papaya, and bamboo shoots in chili oil
Possibly another quick shrimp dish, maybe salt-baked with chilis and
five-spice
Fruit, see above, plus cold almond-agar soup
Gung hey fat tsoy!
Adamantius
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