WW- Ying Yang Beans

Wow, I can't believe that it's almost been a month since my last post.

I joined the group Wok Wednesdays, cooking  out of Grace Youngs' cookbook, Stir-Frying to the Sky's Edge, twice a month  and have been terrible about keeping up with the group. There were
issues, not with the group, but with me that kept me from posting and cooking with them.

When I saw that we were to make Ying Yang Beans I was excited. This has been a favorite of my
family for quite some time.

HMarket recently opened in my neighborhood so I am blessed to have a place to shop where I can find
all the ingredients I need for any Asian inspired recipe.

We love Sesame Seeds so I added some and I also added some pickled vegetables.

There's never any left overs!  Grace's recipe was easy to make and delicious.

This weekend I am scheduled to tape a segment for Neighborhood Chefs. I am so excited! Check back
with me. I'll post some photo's of my big day. I'm still tossing around ideas as to what I'm making. If I
can pick enough zucchini blossoms I will definitely makes those along with another dish.

I know I've been terrible about posting with regularity and it's not about to get any better in the
immediate future. I've got a few busy months coming up!

I will be posting pictures to my Pinterest account, so if you aren't following me on that and want to see previews of what I'll eventually be blogging about, check me out on there.

Until the next time!

Buon Appetito
xoxoxo
Lorraine

Wok Wednesdays!

While surfing around the other day I found a blog that I would like to share with you all.  Matt from GreenEatsBlog was encouraging other bloggers to participate in Wok Wednesdays.  If you would like to participate, please go to Wok Wednesdays blog and sign up!

On selected Wednesdays  a recipe will be featured out of Grace Young's cookebook, Stir-Frying to the Sky's Edge.

Yesterday was our first Wok Wednesday, with a very simple Stir- Fried Garlic Spinach! This was very fast and yummy. It took me longer to clean the spinach than it took to cook it.

I purchased 3 bundles of fresh spinach thinking that would probably give me the 16 cups of spinach that the recipe was calling for.  I've forgotten what a pain in the a$$ it is to clean fresh spinach. I've gotten very used to the triple washed, cleaned and trimmed spinach that you can purchase these days! haha!

I cut off the bottom of each bundle of spinach.
I filled the sink with the spinach and then ran cold water over the spinach and let the spinach sit. I removed the spinach from the water, cleaned out the sink, there was plenty of sand and dirt on the bottom and repeated the cleaning process. I think I did this 3 times to make sure there was no dirt left anywhere! There is nothing worse than chewing on sand! So when you think it's clean, clean it again!

The Woking part was easy! I heated the oil and waited until it was hot enough, added the garlic and worked quickly so the garlic didn't burn. The spinach was added and tossed and then sprinkled with a little salt and tossed again.

Out of the wok, and into a serving plate, right to the table.
Enjoyed by all!
I'm looking forward to woking again. We'll be making a chicken dish. Check back soon!

Buon Appetito
祝您好胃口
xoxoxo
Lorraine