Showing posts with label vegetarian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vegetarian. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Ginger-Scallion Sauce


I'm not a fan of Hainanese chicken. Chicken skin that's any paler than a Jersey Shores cast member's gives me the heebie-jeebies.  My mom even browns the chicken in tinola (a Filipino boiled chicken soup) when she makes it for me. But what saves Hainanese chicken is that delicious ginger-scallion sauce, because I think I would eat my cats if you smeared some of that stuff on them.

What??? I kid, I kid!
This sauce is so good, I'll use my chopsticks to painstakingly scrape off every single pallid little goosebump off my chicken, just so I can drown each slice in ginger-scallion goodness.

So anyway, this sauce has now become immensely popular in the US, thanks to David Chang of Momofoku fame, whose Ginger-Scallion Noodles have become a signature dish at Noodle Bar, his more affordable restaurant.

Recently, I came across Francis Lam's adaptation of Chang's ginger-scallion sauce.  Lam's version heats the oil to sizzling and then pours it on the ginger and scallions, cooking the mixture and mellowing its bite. Liking the sound of sizzle, I decided to get going.

Monday, January 28, 2013

Parmesan-Roasted Cauliflower



Hush, dear readers, there, there. I know I've been a very derelict sort of blogger, but let me make it up to you by offering you some words of wisdom: Eat your veggies.

Yeah, that's pretty much it, sorry.  Hey, I'm a food blogger, not the Dalai Lama. HOWEVER. Here's a recipe that should make eating your veggies a real treat, even for the hardcore carnivores among you. And by you, I mean us. Okay, me.