All posts tagged sesame oil

By Jessica | January 3, 2010 | In The News, Main Courses, Other People's Recipes, Projects, Recipes | 1 Comment

Saw Food, Inc. Kill me now.

My New Years resolution (besides working this fat ass out) is to shop at more farmers markets and eat smaller portions with the goal of being a bit more conscious of my consumption. Ima also do my best to plan out meals so I can double up on the ingredients I buy. How many times does your recipe call for scallions, you buy the bunch, use half, and throw the rest out a week later? So yeah, that shit cannot be happening.

Here is mine and B’s meal plan this week, all different meals that use many of the same ingredes:

Bright and Spicy Citrus Salad Over Rice

That Soba Noodle / Shiitake / Spinach jam on the NYTimes most emailed list for the past couple days.

B and I used to wok up some rice on the daily, haven’t in a while, looking to get back to our roots with some Pork Fried Rice. (wok, peanut oil, chopped pork chop, cooked rice (brown?), cabbage, carrot, siracha, sesame oil, cilantro, basil, bam.)

Although I get my Ashe on, on the reg, I also got a need for the chipotle to hit that tongue as well. I’ll be doing this poached shredded chicken breast with chipotle dressing this week as well.

Oh, and something with a sweet potato. All yall healthy people been squawkin about this shit for a while, I really wasn’t down, but I’m going to try it for lunch. I’ll let ya know how it goes.

By Jessica | July 30, 2009 | Main Courses, Snackin, Salads and Apps | No comments

I make my hunger diversify its preoccupation with asian food at least. You don’t see biff and broccoli up in this bitch everyday, do ya? Didn’t think so. But I suppose you do get a lotta shit with soy sauce. Sorry? Or… you’re welcome.

I’m working in Chinatown at my day job that does pay these bills (cause yall see that ad to the left? please know fo sho that that shit ain’t puttin food on the table). There is this vietnamese spot near my office that I like to go slam 4.75 on the table of and order a big fat hardy bowl of rice/salad/beefy shtuff. I recreated it for you here. You can substitute the rice for rice noodles if you want. Or, if you are an atkins freak that thinks bacon is better for you than bread, remove the rice product all together.

Vietnamese Salad

By Jessica | June 25, 2009 | Main Courses | 1 Comment

Soba Noodles are my schmack foreal. I have always been a noodle nut but thought I would leave those brown healthy buckwheat noodles to the same freaks that are trying to eat fat free cheese and grilled tofu breasts. Little did I know I had no idea what I was talking about. Doesn’t sound like me, does it.

So, during my failed vagitarian trial, I thought I would go full hog and eat some cardboard noodles. But alas, no cardboard up in here. AND simple as shit to enjoy.

You know what else makes me jealous about Japan? They sell these noodles on the street and in train stations. What a goddamn upgrade from NYC’s dirty water dog and pretzel bricks.

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Soba Noodles
Dried noodles for 2
Soy sauce to taste (go quality here, Japanese style or even tamari sauce instead)
Some sesame oil
A dab of chili oil
Sirachi to taste

Boil the noodles according to the instructions on the package. Add to your eatin bowls and throw on your oils and sauces. Eat with chopsticks cause you feel much more cultured that way.

What else yall think I should eat with this?

By Jessica | June 3, 2009 | Main Courses | 1 Comment

I swear, I should have been born in Korea or China or, or, Laos or something cause I love the gotdamn food. I probably don’t even cook Korean, Chinese or Laosean but think I do cause I eat the shmack with chop sticks. At least I’m self aware of my ignance.

Now that I’m a vagitarian (including no fish shticks), B and I gots to get creative with the cookin and the eatin. I can’t tell you how hard it is when I drink mama’s milk (vodka) and alls I wants to do is eat a burger slapped between two steaks. Oh well. Three more weeks or something totally impossible like that…

Anywho: Kimchi Rice with Broccoli, Sesame and Poached Egg

1 stalk and head of broccoli
olive oil, a bit
1/4 cup water
1 cup of cabbage based kimchi (spicy, if you nasty)
2 cups of cooked rice (sub with brown rice if youre feelin)
sesame seeds, to your desire
2 cage free, organic eggs, poached
soy or tamari
hot chile oil, a bit
sesame oil, oh, just a bit
scallions, sliced
sirachi, if you feel it
Serves 2 constantly hungry vegetarians.

Get your rice cooked and hot. While that’s working, lop the bottom of your broccoli stalk and then slice thinly up the base until you have slices and small florets. Heat your olive oil in a deep frying pan. When hot, add the broc and saute for a minute or two. Add the water and cover immediately so the broccoli finishes cooking via a good steam. After about 3 or 4 minutes, remove the cover and cook out the water. Now add your kimchi and saute all together until hot. Add sirachi until your desired spice.

Add your cooked rice to two eatin bowls. Garnish with soy to taste. Add a bit of chile oil. Top with the kimchi and broccoli mixture. Now the sesame seeds. Now the sesame oil. Now the poached eggs. Now the scallions (or as B likes to call them, scallios.)

Eat with chop sticks and hate on Miley Cirus for making fun of us. Bitch.

By Jessica | April 8, 2009 | Main Courses, Recipes | 1 Comment

Do you ever decide that Tonight is Thee Night that you are going to get hammered? Yeah, me too. Luckily, B thinks it’s funny when I throw up. But you know what he doesn’t think is funny? My face getting splattered with hot wok oil. I think that’s why he took over the cheffing of our Duck Fried Rice the other night. You knew that duck fried rice was coming, right? Cause I made duck breastesess the other night and you know I didn’t finish my plate. And what’s better than eating duck for dinner? Eating duck for leftovers the next night. Wordemup.

I don’t usually put pics of the ingredients /\ but thought it would save some time so yall would know what I was blathering about.

Duck Fried Rice

1/2 or 1 cup spicy kimchi
fermented beans, korean style, if you can find em. If not, no big woop.
carrots, julienne
cooked duck, cubed, however much your fat ass wants
1 scoop of bean paste
5 cups of cooked rice
1/8 c of soy or tamari
1 cup of cilantro, chopped
2 scallions, sliced
sesame, drizzled on top
Sirachi, for garnish, if desired
Serves 2 drunk mother fuckers.

Heat your wok. Depending on how well seasoned it is (seasoned means oily), you may or may not have to use a bit of oil. Veg or peanut oil work juuuust fine. Heat your work and add the oil. When the oil is hot, throw in your kimchi. For this recipe, I like to use the one with all the veg in it and not just the cabbage. When heated through, throw in the beans and the carrots. After the carrots are heated through, toss in your meat. Add in a generous dollop of bean paste and mix. After 60 seconds, move it all to the side and add your rice. Fry for a smidge and then stir well until everything is incorporated. Add the soy sauce or tamari – which ever one you are using. When everything is nice and hot and you’re drooling, serve into two eatin bowls. Garnish with cilantro, scallions and sesame oil. I also add… wait for it… sirachi. Duh.

By Jessica | March 18, 2009 | Main Courses, Recipes | 3 Comments

Since I had bacon for breakfast, and two dinners: buffalo wings and beer, then ramen with pork later that night, my heart was banging and begging for some heart healthy love. So I set about creating a fat-free, sugar-free, guilt-free, and everything else bad for you-free meal for me and B. Since we recently became obsessed with the spicy green papaya salad from thai restaurants, I built a larger meal around that idea. And hot damn that shit is good. I mean, not as good as how much we need to help the US citizens of South Africa get more maps, but probably almost as good, you know, for our kids, such as, I believe. Maps.

Spicy Mango and Shrimp Salad

1/2 head of bibb lettuce, tore apart
1/2 cup of fresh cilantro, chopped
1/2 cup of fresh basil, chopped
1 jalapeno, finely diced
1/2 inch ginger, peeled and finely diced
1/2 almost ripe mango, cut in thin, 1 inch strips
1 scallion, cut in thin, 1 inch strips
1 carrot, peeled and cut in thin, 1 inch strips
1/2 cucumber, peeled and cut in 1 inch strips
1/4 cup of salted peanuts

Shrimp:
20 medium shrimps, peeled
1 tbs of paprika
1/2 tbs of cayenne
drizzle of olive oil

Dressing:
2 parts soy sauce
2 parts rice or white vinegar
1 parts sirachi
1 part sesame oil

Serves 2 hungry heffers.

After your shreemps are peeled and washed, sprinkle with the spices and mix in the olive oil. Let sit for 20 minutes while you chop your veg and get your dressing on point.

Mix your greens, cilantro and basil together, and divide in two eatin bowls. Sprinkle the jalapeno and ginger over the greens. In pretty little piles, place mounds of the mango, scallion, carrot and cucumbers around the outer edge of the bowl over the lettuce. Don’t mix – it will look awesomer this way.

Combine the first 3 ingredients of your dressing. Slowly whisk in the oil. Feel free to play with the amounts to achieve success for your taste buds. Now pour over your prepared salad.

Heat your stove top grill pan, or skillet and place the shrimp. After a minute and a half, flip. Cook for another minute and a half. Grab and place in a delicious little pile in the center of your salad.

Sprinkle with the peanuts. Write me a note and tell me you sweat this salad.