Sunday, July 17, 2011

Free range chicken, simmered and chilled

7-17-2011 Sun. hot, sunny.


WEEKEND BREAKFAST
--- coffee | bread | brie | watermelon | peach with raspberry sorbet | cherries
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- tea
DINNER --- simmered and chilled chicken with ginger scallion sesame oil sauce | quinoa salad with black olive, Gouji berry, watercress, shallot, pistachio and cherry tomato | sauteed baby eggplants and spring onion | avocado salad with fennel, lettuce, radish, and cherry tomato | wine


白斩鸡
  • a Shanghai summer special ( should be as famous as Peking Duck) : whole chicken simmered in quite low temperature ( a Chinese version of Sous-Vide?) for quite a long time, then chilled, cut in pieces with bone-in ( have to use a cleaver ) , served with hot ginger scallion sesame oil sauce