Food! Lazy Dog's French Toast, Homemade Char Siu Chow Mein

[tuftears]

What are we looking at here? That's french toast made with some pretty thick bread, slathered with generous amounts of orange marmalade and a cream cheese flavored with vanilla.

dracosphynx had been singing the praise of this french toast for a while so I was curious. It was actually pretty good, but I wished I'd asked for a side order of bacon or sausage to go with the thing. As it was, I went home and nuked a couple pieces of bacon, since I wanted to clean them out of the freezer anyway. :)



Maybe you remember that I finally found a char siu recipe that I liked. Well, I had a few pieces of pork in the freezer, and had a yen to try making chow mein with Trader Joe's "papardelle" egg noodles.

I gotta say, I don't think the chow mein part works all that well. I have no idea how to separate the noodles -- once I take it out of the boiling water, cool it down and then place it into the wok, it just tends to stick together. The sauce was terrific though-- it was the leftover marinade from making the char siu, thickened with a little corn starch. The veggies are just fine, and the char siu is delicious.

So, moderately successful cooking experiment but one there's no point in repeating.

Comments

[okojosan.livejournal.com]

Hmm, the noodles... I don't know if this is that kind of recipe, but when I boil spaghetti pasta I usually pour a teaspoon or so of olive oil into the water as it's boiling. It seems to help keep the noodles from sticking together. Otherwise the char siu looks really tasty!

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

That could work.

The char siu was *delicious*. ^_^

[centauress.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was my mother's method, too.

You can also toss some in when you do the rinse before putting them back in the wok for the second turn.