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[austin_tycho]

I had a craving for Chinese from Mama Fu's, which we had ordered from Dine On Demand a few nights ago. They were started by someone who branched off from the big delivery service in town, and being a sucker for an underdog story (the bigger place reportedly said they would crush the upstart; now is that cool, I ask you?) I decided to give them a try. So we had Chinese the other night, with options to add more veggies or meat, and the option of brown rice.

Nobody seems to make brown rice. I hear it's a lot bigger pain in the ass to make, so it's understandable. But I'm also told that white rice is like unto poison to my people (lard-asses) so I was happy to have the opportunity to try it. And it does taste a lot better than white rice. The same goes for pasta- I made a lasagna with wheat noodles, and it really added a lot to the flavor, I thought. I think I still prefer white bread over wheat, but for everything else I've tried so far- rice, pasta, tortillas- I'm down with brown.

When I got home last night Eric was with the gaming posse, so I ordered Chinese. I tried the 'Thai Cashew Stir Fry' with extra shrooms and onions. But there was a $15 order minimum, and even getting lettuce wraps didn't get it there. I noticed they had edamame, the not-lima-beans I enjoyed on my salad yesterday, so I got an order of that.

Well, it came in pea pods. No problem. I popped one in my mouth thinking they were like snow peas. Oh lord are they not. The pea pods are completely, totally, utterly inedible. So I had to dissect them all. It was not a big deal, but I was amused. They sent a lot too, and between them and the lettuce wraps, I didn't really have any room for the Thai Cashew Stir Fry. I tried it and found it very yummy, but am having most of it for lunch today.

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[idadebeautreux.livejournal.com]

I had edamame for the first time yesterday, heh!

They're actually soybeans, which aren't designed to have edible husks. If they beans were cooked properly, they should split apart at the seams easily. You just take hold of one end and use your teeth to squeege out the individual beans out of the pods and then toss the pods out. The light sautee oil on the outside is sufficient to flavor the beans once they come out of the pod. You usually get an enormous plateful when you order 'em. Which for me was good, because I found them to be really addictive.

[mielikki.livejournal.com]

That's more or less how I ended up eating them, but it was a pretty amusing trial and error process to get there. When I had them on the salad yesterday, it was just loose beans. Tasty!

[idadebeautreux.livejournal.com]

I was lucky enough to have the benefit of having a friend along who knew what they were and how to eat them :)

They are very tasty, and supposedly you can get them in the frozen food section of most stores. Which is bad/good for me to know, because I'll probably be getting them all the time now: they're pretty high in calories, but also high in protein, I think. I need the protein because I'm too poor to get meat most of the time (alas, grad school saleries...).

[austingoddess.livejournal.com]

I like the brown rice at Zen and at Casa De Luz, but other places make it too thick and sticky.
If you haven't seen it yet, I found a pasta called Dreamfields at the HEB a few days ago. More fiber and a third the glycemic load found in regular pasta.

[mielikki.livejournal.com]

Huh- thanks. I shop at HEB, so I may already have some of that. I'll keep an eye out for it if not. Fiberrific!