[Sca-cooks] Late-breaking, tentative Chinese New Year Menu

David Walddon david at vastrepast.com
Mon Jan 31 20:55:56 PST 2011


Some day I must accidentally book a business trip to NYC right around Chinese New Year! 
Sounds delicious. 
Eduardo 


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David Walddon
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On Jan 31, 2011, at 8:39 PM, Philip Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:

> Based on what we were able to shop for today; we may end up snowed in to
> some extent for New Year's Eve and the following day. We're sort of
> semi-postponing our usual New Year's Day celebration for Saturday, so
> the Evil Spawn can make it home (he's got a weird school schedule and
> it's right around mid-terms).
> 
> So, after shopping today and with the realization that what is in the
> house right now may constitute our New Year's menu, here it is:
> 
> New Year's Eve (Wednesday evening after sundown -- in China it's
> midnight, but the 19th-century Chinese immigrants, and many of their
> descendants, stick to the older tradition that goes by the rising of the
> New Moon) --
> 
> -Fried Whole Fish -- two, porgies this year
> -Steamed Lop Cheung (sweet dried pork sausages)
> -Poached Chicken
> -Stir-Fried Shrimp (maybe with green peas or in an omelette)
> -West Lake beef and cilantro soup
> -Steamed white rice
> -Fruit
> 
> New Year's Day (for us, this year, probably Saturday)
> 
> -Fried fish (reheated, probably refried and served with chili sauce and
> the sweet-and-sour sauce from...)
> -Steamed Sausages
> -Fried, battered prawns with sweet-and-sour sauce with pickled ginger,
> pineapple, cucumber pickles and scallion
> -Five-Spice Beef
> -Soy Sauce Chicken
> -Stir-fried, diced poached chicken and ham with celery and pine nuts
> served in lettuce leaf rolls
> -Iron Steak (fried, mallet-tenderized flank steak slices, stir-fried
> with oyster sauce and black mushrooms
> -Soup -- if we can get out again we'll try to pick up some winter melon,
> otherwise dried bean curd sheets and dried mushrooms in chicken broth
> -Jai -- Buddhist Delight -- yes, there will probably be dried shrimp
> and/or scallops in this in with the fresh and dried vegetables and
> cellophane noodles, please don't bother telling me you know a Buddhist
> who is a strict vegetarian; Siddhartha apparently wasn't one. The jai
> may end up rolled up in spring rolls.
> -Another shrimp dish, either barbecued shrimp in the shell or
> bacon-wrapped shrimp rolls
> 
> If for any reason there's not enough food I have about ten bags of
> frozen, high-quality steamer juicy buns with pork and shrimp filling,
> and various other comparable items.
> 
> Spouse wants to make steamed Cantonese Dai Bao (sinister significance of
> the lard that magically appeared in the shopping cart today) with pork,
> sausage, shrimp and hard-boiled egg filling... that could actually
> happen...
> 
> As usual, no one is invited, and no one unwelcome.
> 
> Happy New Year, all! I probably won't put in an appearance for a day or
> two after Wednesday afternoon.
> 
> Adamantius
> 
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