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What I Ate: July 1, 2009

Posted 1 July, 2009 at 11:04pm by Michael Chu
(Filed under: Food, What I Ate)

Lunch: I ate some left over deli items we had - mortadella, black forest ham, head cheese, cucumbers, and rosemary and olive oil bread with an egg fried sunny side up.
Cold cuts and an egg sunny side up

Dinner: Tina cooked an oxtail with daikon soup.
Oxtail and Daikon Soup

When she said we didn't have any carbs to pair with the soup (we had finished the bread), I suggested rice. She said that you can't pair rice with soup - it should be a bun or some other wheat product. So I jumped up and grabbed some flour and water to start a dough for cong you bing (scallion pancakes).
Scallion Pancakes

Tina also cooked a bowl of dried bean curd and bell peppers with spicy black bean sauce as well as reheating the leftover broccoli rabe.
Dried Bean Curd and Bell Peppers

3 comments to What I Ate: July 1, 2009

Don, July 2nd, 2009 at 7:00 am:

  • Maybe I'm strange but I've paired rice with soup before.

Tina Jiang, July 2nd, 2009 at 2:48 pm:

  • You are not strange… rice can definitely be paired with soup. It's just that I'm from northern China, and growing up we often paired dough things (steamed buns, scallion pancakes, etc.) with hearty soups and that's what I'm used to :).

Jeff, July 3rd, 2009 at 9:26 pm:

  • Do you have a recipe for the scallion pancakes?
    I'm guessing similar to a flour tortilla recipe but with some butter or shortening and baking powder/soda?

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