Catalan Salad
This light, fresh and flavoursome salad makes an unusual but delightful accompaniment to many dishes.
Catalan Escarole
A quick and delicious recipe from the Chicago Tribune that makes delightful use of our garden bounty of escarole. We have made a nice vegetarian dinner of this with freshly steamed rice. Of course, then this only served two instead of the listed four (LOL). They said, “Jose Garces uses dried guindilla chilies, but more common Anaheim, California or guajillo chilies can be substituted. This recipe is adapted from his book, “Latin Evolution.””
Stir-Fried Scallops With Lettuce
From Wei-Chuan’s Cookbook, Chinese Cuisine. This is an authentic chinese recipe. The dried scallops or dried shrimp lends a complex aroma to the clean crisp lettuce. Dried scallops are expensive, but they lend a sweet seafood taste and is much preferred, the dried shrimp is tasty too, but the flavor is more robust. Although I made this as is with the dried scallops –it was excellent, and I loved the texture of the lettuce, I find iceberg void of the nutrients of true green leafy vegetables favored by the Chinese. Therefore, this dish can be made with romaine lettuce, baby bok choy or pea shoot leaves (which are abundant in late winter and early spring in chinatowns in major cities.) We actually ordered this dish with scallop/pea shoot leaves recently over Chinese New Year in a restaurant and it would’ve been tastier with this sauce!
Noble House Prosperity and Good Luck
This Chinese New Year dish is one offered by a local chinese restaurant. The lettuce represents growing wealth for the coming year.
Pea Shoots (Stir-Fried Pea Shoots — Chow Dau Miu)
Pea shoots are the tips of the vines and the top set of leaves of the pea plant. I was introduced to these by my BIL a couple of years ago. I found no recipes for it here or on line. Which lead me to add my recipe.
