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which_chickThis evening I did the dinner idea I mentioned on Monday night, the hot-peanut-vaguely-asian sauce thing with nice noodles and kale. It came out better than you probably think. I know it came out better than I thought it would. The sauce was mostly Kikkoman with a dash of mirin, some merlot (I didn't have any white wine), a little water to thin, four cloves of box garlic sliced thin and a smallish handful of crushed peanuts, salt not washed off. Also two pointy knife tips of ground red pepper, which was plenty. Crush the peanuts by putting them in a ziplock and rolling over them gently with a rolling pin.
I used potato starch noodles -- they're white when dry and get clear and kind of chewy when they're cooked. I got mine at the Han Ah Reum nearnot_your_real's digs when I was helping Sector R with his garage problem. Presumably they are a brand but the packet is in Hangul (script for Korean) which I have no hope of reading. Anyway, I like these clear, flavorless, nameless noodles for use with heavy-duty sauces. Good thing, too. It was a large packet what I bought and I'd hate to not like them.
The kale, I washed and chiffonaded. It's frilly so it never looks as aesthetic as collards. It also doesn't roll as tight. I like collards better. Probably I only eat kale so that I can be happy that it's collard week again next week. If every week were collard week, I wouldn't get to have that. I also sliced and cooked some mushrooms with the kale.
Assembly: Cook sauce. Cook noodles. Cook greens and mushrooms. Drain noodles and veggies. In large bowl, toss everything together. Eat.
Damn. Damn that was good. I had two bowls. It is only with considerable effort that I am not currently eating a third bowl. I'm going to have the third bowl for breakfast tomorrow, possibly with a scrambled egg on the side.
I used potato starch noodles -- they're white when dry and get clear and kind of chewy when they're cooked. I got mine at the Han Ah Reum near
not_your_real's digs when I was helping Sector R with his garage problem. Presumably they are a brand but the packet is in Hangul (script for Korean) which I have no hope of reading. Anyway, I like these clear, flavorless, nameless noodles for use with heavy-duty sauces. Good thing, too. It was a large packet what I bought and I'd hate to not like them.The kale, I washed and chiffonaded. It's frilly so it never looks as aesthetic as collards. It also doesn't roll as tight. I like collards better. Probably I only eat kale so that I can be happy that it's collard week again next week. If every week were collard week, I wouldn't get to have that. I also sliced and cooked some mushrooms with the kale.
Assembly: Cook sauce. Cook noodles. Cook greens and mushrooms. Drain noodles and veggies. In large bowl, toss everything together. Eat.
Damn. Damn that was good. I had two bowls. It is only with considerable effort that I am not currently eating a third bowl. I'm going to have the third bowl for breakfast tomorrow, possibly with a scrambled egg on the side.
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Date: 2005-02-10 03:35 pm (UTC)Wow. This DVD burner of which you speak is truly a marvelous thing, methinks. I'm just happy that I got (though haven't installed - I want somebody here to watch me get electrocuted, and Mr. Not Your Real is stuck late at work this week) the new power supply for the BSD box.
As for the rest of our disposable income... house.
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Date: 2005-02-10 03:46 pm (UTC)As I mentioned, I also bumped the laptop RAM up to a gig, and I gotta say, that was also worth every freaking penny.
These little upgrades do mean that I don't get to buy a smaller, cuter laptop for another two years at a minimum... *sigh* Smaller, cuter laptops call to me. Their voices are hard to resist. Quick, somebody tie me to the damn mast!