Thursday, August 27, 2009

AFTERNOON DELIGHT #12 -- A taste of the Orient today!

How about a quick, refreshing nibble that is Chinese?
The day before go to the store and buy 2 chicken breasts (boneless & skinless), rice vinegar, sesame oil, scallions, 1 green pepper, 1 lime, cilantro and your favorite wraps. (For this, I like the ones that are flavored with garlic and green onions.)I hope you have soy sauce at home. If not, buy that, too.
Do add to your grocery cart, your favorite Chinese or Japanese beer. Yes, beer. Bubbly joy for the afternoon!
The night before, slice the chicken into long strips, then marinate them in 2 T. of rice vinegar, 1 T. of sesame oil, and the juice of the lime. Add black pepper and just a light dust of salt.
The next morning, as you wash your sheets and other linens in sea grass-scented fragrances, broil the chicken to a luscious brown. Cool.
Slice your green pepper in long lovely strips, and cut your scallions on the long bias. Yes, this is different, and it gives the impression of lovely lithe grasses blowing in the wind! Toss those together in a dusting of soy sauce and cilantro leaves you have plucked from the stems with your own fingertips! Warm the wraps if you wish before your Delight arrives.
Arrange all on a huge serving plate. Add o-hashi, or chopsticks to enable you to assemble your scrumptious repast.
Serve with cold beer, warm wet hand towels (like they do after a meal in the Orient) and a warm and loving heart!
Thank you. Or as the Chinese say, Shia, shia. Or the Japanese, Domo arigato!
Oishi des, ne? (Delicious, yes?)
(copyright 2009, Cerise DeLand)

7 comments:

Allie Standifer said...

You've made me hungry for lunch way to early! Sounds yummy and I can't wait to get my hands on another one of your very hot books. Keep those fingers flying.
Allie Standifer

Mia Watts said...

Well, shit. I just washed my sheets in vanilla and cinnamon for the All American dinner I'm preparing for Me, Myself, and I. I'll have to try this next time. ;)

Cerise DeLand said...

Allie and MIA!
I am soooooooo delighted to see you both here!
THANKS for cooking! I mean both of you with great books!
Hubba, hubba!
CIAO!

Unknown said...

Boy, yet another week and now I'm dying for Chinese!

Fran Lee said...

How do you say scrumptious in Mandarin?

Cerise DeLand said...

AMBER!
Food to write by...as well as a few other great things to make you FEEL good!

Cerise DeLand said...

FRAN!
Scrumptious....LOOKING that up! (Yep, I have my old Chinese-English transliteration here...somewhere.