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Tight but Polite
Is anyone here any good at cooking it?
I'm kind of okay as far as I can get with a few recipes, a basic understanding of how flavours work together, and a bit of soy sauce / tofu / ginger / seitan / whatever, but I'd kind of like to get better.
So can anyone help?
What are the ingredients that you keep around the place? I tend to get the idea that something is really essential and then buy some and discover that I'm stuck with a huge amount of something that I actually only have one recipe for and that goes off in 3 days.
Are there any recipe books worth having? Something with decent amounts of veggie stuff would be a bonus, I'm not 100% bothered about 'authenticity' but I am interested in a decent degree of variety and ideas beyond 'stir fried stuff in soy sauce based goop'.
Any other thoughts on the subject? Ideas, things to try? 99.99% of Chinese restaurant food in the UK seems to be generic and somewhere between awful and mediocre, but the good stuff I've had - home cooked or in better restaurants - has been awesome. Also, I'm aware that 'chinese food' is a slightly silly term given the diversity of culture and styles of cooking that have traditionally existed within china, so feel free to go off on one about regional styles.
I'm kind of okay as far as I can get with a few recipes, a basic understanding of how flavours work together, and a bit of soy sauce / tofu / ginger / seitan / whatever, but I'd kind of like to get better.
So can anyone help?
What are the ingredients that you keep around the place? I tend to get the idea that something is really essential and then buy some and discover that I'm stuck with a huge amount of something that I actually only have one recipe for and that goes off in 3 days.
Are there any recipe books worth having? Something with decent amounts of veggie stuff would be a bonus, I'm not 100% bothered about 'authenticity' but I am interested in a decent degree of variety and ideas beyond 'stir fried stuff in soy sauce based goop'.
Any other thoughts on the subject? Ideas, things to try? 99.99% of Chinese restaurant food in the UK seems to be generic and somewhere between awful and mediocre, but the good stuff I've had - home cooked or in better restaurants - has been awesome. Also, I'm aware that 'chinese food' is a slightly silly term given the diversity of culture and styles of cooking that have traditionally existed within china, so feel free to go off on one about regional styles.