that ubiquitous wok

Yeah, yeah. I know I already signed off on China. But I was flipping
through my Chinese "recipes" the other day (long story as to why, but
we're getting desperate with the green beans) and came to some
subsequent realizations.

1. My note-taking skills are absolutely incomprehensible. Handwriting
not so good either.

2. The Chinese people don't measure. They're too cool. I find pathetic
attempts in my notes like "leetle cubes," "a lotta rice," "buncha green
beans," or "miniature-scripture-sized hunk of pork." Somewhere around
"approximately 50,000 previously boiled noodles" then I gave up
altogether and everything is "some." Some oil, some peppers, some
ginger. Whatev.

3. Freak, you can make anything in a wok. Except for maybe bread.

4. From what I can discern, many Guangdong dishes are somewhat
formulaic. The equation goes something like this:

*Note: c in this equation does not represent speed of light, but instead
"copious amounts of."*

5. The cooks, Michael and Denial (read: Daniel)? Pros.

1 comment:

miss independent said...

hahahah this is how old american women cook too! it is probably universal!! :) I must be OCD about recipes like I get anxiety if I don't know exactly how much... except cheese, you can always add more cheese :)