Quite a delay since my last post, it seems! I’m just going to throw it out there and blame it on the snow (as opposed to laziness or spending too much time playing video games).
February is chock full of special events. It’s Black History Month; there’s Valentine’s Day and Groundhog Day, and tonight marks the start of the 2010 Winter Olympics. All of these events require a special attention towards food, and as such I celebrated the Chinese New Year (though technically it’s on the 14th this year) by whipping up some Eastern cookery for dins.
The menu consisted of:
- dandan-mien (for those of you familiar with Japanese, we call it tantan-men), spicy noodles with ground pork
- steamed dumplings (mushi-gyoza in Japanese)
- crushed cucumber salad
- Sichuan-style green beans
No pics of the beans, but you can take a gander at the rest of the lot (recipes to follow).
Yay, now I know how to use the steamer. I wasn’t sure if the saute pan would work, but clearly it does. Now just to steam some shit.