Comments on: Lunar New Year Birthday Party http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2006/01/30/lunar-new-year-birthday-party/ Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:23:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on Lunar New Year Birthday Party by: Barbara http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2006/01/30/lunar-new-year-birthday-party/#comment-2114 Thu, 02 Feb 2006 21:08:26 +0000 http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2006/01/30/lunar-new-year-birthday-party/#comment-2114 In the summer, I always grow my own basil--both Italian and Thai basils, because all summer long, I make Thai curries and pesto. When we lived in Pataskala, I had huge gardens, so I started my own basil plants and ended up with over a hundred of them all over the garden--and we ate so much pesto, you would think we would tire of it, but we never did. I grew my own Thai bird chiles and dragon chiles, as well as some Pakistani chiles. Tomatillos went wild in the garden and took over, we had strawberries, and tomatoes. Definately, if I were you, I would grow some good cherry tomatoes, cilantro, a couple thai bird chile plants, basil, rosemary, thyme, sage and oregano. That is the absolute minimum. This coming year is when we start terracing our back yard which is all steep hillside, so we can put in a new garden. I miss my roses and the ability to grow fresh vegetables and fruits. In the summer, I always grow my own basil–both Italian and Thai basils, because all summer long, I make Thai curries and pesto. When we lived in Pataskala, I had huge gardens, so I started my own basil plants and ended up with over a hundred of them all over the garden–and we ate so much pesto, you would think we would tire of it, but we never did.

I grew my own Thai bird chiles and dragon chiles, as well as some Pakistani chiles. Tomatillos went wild in the garden and took over, we had strawberries, and tomatoes.

Definately, if I were you, I would grow some good cherry tomatoes, cilantro, a couple thai bird chile plants, basil, rosemary, thyme, sage and oregano. That is the absolute minimum.

This coming year is when we start terracing our back yard which is all steep hillside, so we can put in a new garden. I miss my roses and the ability to grow fresh vegetables and fruits.

]]> Comment on Lunar New Year Birthday Party by: Benjamin http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2006/01/30/lunar-new-year-birthday-party/#comment-2113 Thu, 02 Feb 2006 20:41:07 +0000 http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2006/01/30/lunar-new-year-birthday-party/#comment-2113 Too bad I don't live in Chilicothe anymore. That would have been much closer to Athens than Chicago. I was curious whether you guys grow any of your own produce? I am planning on starting a container garden on my apartment building roof and I was wondering whether you have any favourite herbs or vegetables that you grow yourself? It would be so much easier for me to have a chile pepper plant, I think, than to keep running to the asian grocery store every other day. : ) Too bad I don’t live in Chilicothe anymore. That would have been much closer to Athens than Chicago.

I was curious whether you guys grow any of your own produce? I am planning on starting a container garden on my apartment building roof and I was wondering whether you have any favourite herbs or vegetables that you grow yourself? It would be so much easier for me to have a chile pepper plant, I think, than to keep running to the asian grocery store every other day. : )

]]> Comment on Lunar New Year Birthday Party by: Barbara http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2006/01/30/lunar-new-year-birthday-party/#comment-2096 Wed, 01 Feb 2006 21:10:14 +0000 http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2006/01/30/lunar-new-year-birthday-party/#comment-2096 Thank you, Benjamin--I would be happy to cater a party for you--if you lived here! (Or, you could just come to my house to eat.) Thank you, Benjamin–I would be happy to cater a party for you–if you lived here! (Or, you could just come to my house to eat.)

]]> Comment on Lunar New Year Birthday Party by: Benjamin http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2006/01/30/lunar-new-year-birthday-party/#comment-2095 Wed, 01 Feb 2006 15:19:08 +0000 http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2006/01/30/lunar-new-year-birthday-party/#comment-2095 If only I could hire you to cater one of my parties! It sounds like you guys had a magnificent time. Bows down and worships the kitchen goddess. smirk If only I could hire you to cater one of my parties! It sounds like you guys had a magnificent time.

Bows down and worships the kitchen goddess.

smirk

]]> Comment on Lunar New Year Birthday Party by: Barbara http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2006/01/30/lunar-new-year-birthday-party/#comment-2093 Wed, 01 Feb 2006 13:56:05 +0000 http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2006/01/30/lunar-new-year-birthday-party/#comment-2093 Thank you, Shirley--Mummy had fun, too. Except for having my finger burned by boiling oil--(a scallion pancake made a bubble that popped, spewing oil onto my hand--ow) it was a great party! Rose--the idea of scallion pancakes from street vendors is just too amazing for words for me. You are probably right--very few Chinese Americans make them if they can get them elsewhere. Funnily enough--the first place I had them was in Athens at China Fortune, and then when we left, and went to Providence, Rhode Island, we couldn't find them. We got them in Boston, and they were good, but it was in Providence that I learned to make them for myself. For myself, and all the Chinese and Asian kids in culinary school, that is. Once NeeWee and Chris found out that I had learned how to make them, they would come over for some after class, or when we worked on Saturdays helping out with various events the school put on, I would make batches of them for us for lunch. When we got to Maryland, we found one place that made them--and those were filled with a minced pork filling, which I also learned to make, because the restaurant closed down! And then, the only places that had them used two tortillas with scallions inside. That is not a scallion pancake! So, now I am in the habit of making them, though we will still head out to China Fortune for them now and again. It is almost like we have gone full circle! Sher! Glad you found it--I forgot to put the link in! Gah. I will go back and do that today! Thank you, Shirley–Mummy had fun, too. Except for having my finger burned by boiling oil–(a scallion pancake made a bubble that popped, spewing oil onto my hand–ow) it was a great party!

Rose–the idea of scallion pancakes from street vendors is just too amazing for words for me.

You are probably right–very few Chinese Americans make them if they can get them elsewhere. Funnily enough–the first place I had them was in Athens at China Fortune, and then when we left, and went to Providence, Rhode Island, we couldn’t find them. We got them in Boston, and they were good, but it was in Providence that I learned to make them for myself.

For myself, and all the Chinese and Asian kids in culinary school, that is. Once NeeWee and Chris found out that I had learned how to make them, they would come over for some after class, or when we worked on Saturdays helping out with various events the school put on, I would make batches of them for us for lunch.

When we got to Maryland, we found one place that made them–and those were filled with a minced pork filling, which I also learned to make, because the restaurant closed down!

And then, the only places that had them used two tortillas with scallions inside. That is not a scallion pancake!

So, now I am in the habit of making them, though we will still head out to China Fortune for them now and again.

It is almost like we have gone full circle!

Sher! Glad you found it–I forgot to put the link in! Gah. I will go back and do that today!

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