Comments on: IMBB: Use Your Noodle–Lo Mein http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2006/01/27/imbb-use-your-noodle-lo-mein/ Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:22:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on IMBB: Use Your Noodle–Lo Mein by: Jim http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2006/01/27/imbb-use-your-noodle-lo-mein/#comment-56538 Fri, 16 May 2008 00:29:45 +0000 http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2006/01/27/imbb-use-your-noodle-lo-mein/#comment-56538 I made this recipe tonight. I made the following changes: 1. I omitted the mushrooms because I forgot about them. 2. I had ground pork instead of chicken breast, so I used the pork in place of the chicken. I also like pig. 3. I omitted the chiles because it would render the dish inedible to my 8-year-old. 4. I couldn't find chinese noodles at the fancy grocery store, and the Chinese grocery store is 45 minutes away. So I used dried udon instead. The udon killed the dish. It didn't "kill" the dish in the sense that it's some kind of cultural sin to use a Japanese ingredient in a Chinese recipe. It killed it because it made the texture gummy and diluted the flavors. I was pretty bummed about it. Next time: use the correct noodles! It does matter! (Which means I won't be making lo mein anytime soon.) I made this recipe tonight. I made the following changes:

1. I omitted the mushrooms because I forgot about them.

2. I had ground pork instead of chicken breast, so I used the pork in place of the chicken. I also like pig.

3. I omitted the chiles because it would render the dish inedible to my 8-year-old.

4. I couldn’t find chinese noodles at the fancy grocery store, and the Chinese grocery store is 45 minutes away. So I used dried udon instead.

The udon killed the dish. It didn’t “kill” the dish in the sense that it’s some kind of cultural sin to use a Japanese ingredient in a Chinese recipe. It killed it because it made the texture gummy and diluted the flavors. I was pretty bummed about it.

Next time: use the correct noodles! It does matter! (Which means I won’t be making lo mein anytime soon.)

]]> Comment on IMBB: Use Your Noodle–Lo Mein by: Sandra http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2006/01/27/imbb-use-your-noodle-lo-mein/#comment-52200 Sun, 24 Feb 2008 17:50:03 +0000 http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2006/01/27/imbb-use-your-noodle-lo-mein/#comment-52200 I am so glad I came across this blog. It has the best instructions on the preparation of lo mein that I have seen. I wanted to learn to prepare it myself instead of getting it from the Asian take out place that we go to. Theirs is greasy and they don't have a lot of variety. After finding this site yesterday I was able to produce a lo mein that was better than any we have gotten. A new Asian market has opened in our area and they carry the frozen noodle plus a wonderful selection of other items. I made ours with staw mushrooms, hot chinese sausage, black bean and garlic paste, shredded chicken poached in water and fish sauce, onions, peas and carrot pieces. As well as soy, sherry and corn starch with some vegetable broth. It came out so great that I worry it won't be the same the next time I make it. My husband loved it!! Many thanks! Sandra I am so glad I came across this blog. It has the best instructions on the preparation of lo mein that I have seen. I wanted to learn to prepare it myself instead of getting it from the Asian take out place that we go to. Theirs is greasy and they don’t have a lot of variety. After finding this site yesterday I was able to produce a lo mein that was better than any we have gotten. A new Asian market has opened in our area and they carry the frozen noodle plus a wonderful selection of other items. I made ours with staw mushrooms, hot chinese sausage, black bean and garlic paste, shredded chicken poached in water and fish sauce, onions, peas and carrot pieces. As well as soy, sherry and corn starch with some vegetable broth. It came out so great that I worry it won’t be the same the next time I make it. My husband loved it!! Many thanks!
Sandra

]]> Comment on IMBB: Use Your Noodle–Lo Mein by: Barbara http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2006/01/27/imbb-use-your-noodle-lo-mein/#comment-40007 Fri, 24 Aug 2007 04:25:48 +0000 http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2006/01/27/imbb-use-your-noodle-lo-mein/#comment-40007 No worries, Rob! I am glad to help. No worries, Rob! I am glad to help.

]]> Comment on IMBB: Use Your Noodle–Lo Mein by: Rob http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2006/01/27/imbb-use-your-noodle-lo-mein/#comment-39949 Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:03:23 +0000 http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2006/01/27/imbb-use-your-noodle-lo-mein/#comment-39949 Thank you Barbara, its nice to have you by my side when I cook Rob Thank you Barbara, its nice to have you by my side when I cook
Rob

]]> Comment on IMBB: Use Your Noodle–Lo Mein by: Barbara http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2006/01/27/imbb-use-your-noodle-lo-mein/#comment-39930 Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:39:45 +0000 http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2006/01/27/imbb-use-your-noodle-lo-mein/#comment-39930 For that amount, Rob, you have to cook in batches. I'd cook half the chicken, take it out of the pan/wok/whatever, and set it aside, then cook the other half. Then, at the end, toss them all together with the noodles. The only way to do it all at one time with a ten inch pan is to have 2 ten inch pans going at once, like they do in restaurants. (Two, or four or five saute pans at once, really. Saute station sucks, let me tell you....) For that amount, Rob, you have to cook in batches. I’d cook half the chicken, take it out of the pan/wok/whatever, and set it aside, then cook the other half. Then, at the end, toss them all together with the noodles. The only way to do it all at one time with a ten inch pan is to have 2 ten inch pans going at once, like they do in restaurants. (Two, or four or five saute pans at once, really. Saute station sucks, let me tell you….)

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