I’ve got a bunch of links I want to post before they disappear from my history list, but I’ve been very busy working the last few days. However, I had to take some time out to post about my lettuce experience this morning because I’m very excited about it.
I’ve been trying hard to
reduce our food wastage in the last few months. This is especially
important now, since I’ve just built an experimental indoor composter and
it
has fairly limited capacity. So I decided I would have to find something
to do with a head of romain lettuce and a bag of baby lettuce greens that
we
hadn’t eaten yet. My first idea was to make the lettuce into soup, which
is apparently quite possible.
Here,
for example, is a recipe for “Lettuce soup- for lettuce haters”. So this
morning I fried up a nice onion from our local farms market (yay!) and
chucked in the lettuce. Quite frankly, I was expecting to be disgusted by
the
mushy mess I expected the lettuce turned into. I figured I would avoid
looking at it, puree it quickly, and
move on. Instead what happened was that delicious smells started to waft
from the wok- smells like Bok Choi and Stir Fried Chinese Greens. The
lettuce also looked surprisingly tasty in its cooked state. So I tasted
some and it tasted like… bok choi and stir fried chinese greens. It was
delicious! So instead of making it into soup, I ate it for breakfast.
Apparently, according to this article
“Although cooking lettuce is an idea unfamiliar to most Westerners, the
Chinese have been doing it for centuries. Michael Chu, who gave us this
recipe for grilled scallops with braised romaine, had never eaten raw
lettuce until he came to this country from Hong Kong.” So there you go.
Just think of it as stir fried chinese greens.
posted at 12:32 on Wed, 19 Jul, 2006 |
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