Revolving Dinner: October 10, 2005

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  • Bitter Melon, Sake, and Plum Wine apertif

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    Ingredients:

    Mascerated Bitter Melon
    3 Bitter Melons: Cored and cubed
    Juice of 1 lemon
    1 cup sugar

    1 bottle Sake
    1 bottle Plum wine

    Lemon twists (for garnish)

  • Pork and Bitter Melon egg rolls

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    Ingredients:

    Ground Pork
    Bitter Melon, cored and thinly sliced
    (Chinese) white wine (what’s it called?)
    Chinese 5-spice
    Grated ginger
    Garllic
    Hot peppers
    Soy Sauce
    Egg roll wrappers
    Peanut Oil

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  • Seafood Bitter Melon Coconut Milk stew

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    Ingredients:

    Broth:
    5 cups Vegetable broth (home-made or already prepared)
    Yellow pepper: Sliced
    Carrots: Sliced
    1-1.5 cans coconut milk
    Yellow curry powder
    Garlic
    Grated fresh ginger
    Garam Masala powder
    Salt
    Pepper

    Additions to prepared broth:
    Mussles
    Calamari
    Scallops
    Shrimp (shelled, tail-on)
    Clams
    Peapods
    Yellow Pepper: Sliced
    Bitter Melon: Sliced

    Jasmine Rice

    Garnish:
    Diced scallions
    Shredded carrots
    Flash-fried puffed rice noodles

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  • Shitake Mushroom and Bitter Melon egg rolls

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    Ingredients:

    Re-hydrated shitake mushrooms, stems removed and chopped
    Bitter Melon, cored and thinly sliced
    Grated fresh ginger
    Garlic
    Hot pepper
    Soy sauce
    Rice vinegar
    Sugar (dash)

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  • Vanilla Ice Cream with Lemon-cardamom cookies and Mascerated Bitter Melon

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    Ingredients:

    Cookies:
    INGREDIENTS:
    8 ounces butter (2 sticks), room temperature
    1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
    2 cups all-purpose flour
    1/2 teaspoon baking powder
    1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
    1 teaspoon lemon zest
    1 teaspoon powdered green cardamom

    Mascerated Bitter Melon
    1 Bitter Melon: Cored and cubed
    Juice of 1 lemon
    1 cup sugar
    1 tsp. corn starch