Dish du Jour: Vietnamese Lemongrass Chicken
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Awwwwwww J’YEAH! It’s on like donkey kong ya’ll. For those of us that are night owls, early birds (i.e. waking up before 12noon on a Sunday) or complete insomniacs… you now know what it is that we’re serving. Good on you!
We tried almost 10 different chicken dishes this week (read a previous post about CHICKEN EXPLORATION WEEK), and it held it’s own and we’ve found some future chicken dishes in the process!
Lemongrass, as an ingredient, is one that’s very popular and has a special almost marriage-like relationship with Vietnamese food. I KNOW because my mom SMS texted me confirming I’m Vietnamese! That’s how cool my mom is: SMS texts, IM chats AND she knows all the lyrics to R. Kelly’s “rap opera” Magnum Opus, TRAPPED IN THE CLOSET (I DARE you to click the link for maximum hilarity). Oh yeah, she MIGHT have told me Snake Eyes from G.I.Joe is a real person and COULD be my father… REALLY! (well, at least some of this stuff about my Mom is real ^_^)
Back to the main topic: LEMONGRASS. Well, this grass don’t taste like crap combined with lemon either. Once you taste this “grass” sent from the gods themselves in our chicken recipe… if you’re an Irish Catholic from Boston (or Ireland) you’re going to say to yourself “Jesus, Mother, Mary and Joseph”, because it’s THAT over. Flavor enlightenment my friends. FLAVOR ENLIGHTENMENT…
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Alright, alright. You might be saying to yourself, “Team Starry Kitchen, are you smoking crack,” and I would reply, “Naw, but lemon grass is kinda like that once you have it. Hell, everything Starry Kitchen serves has addictive flavor properties that church goers, talent agents, pharmacists and drug lords (one in the same if you ask me LOL) alike can put aside their differences (and uzis) aside to share the common bond of… you guessed it, flavor enlightenment.” ^^
Seriously though (only serious paragraph of this post), it’s good stuff. We definitely don’t want to blow it out of proportion, but it is quite tasty and we invite you and your friends to come and at least try a sample.
We’re going to have at LEAST two different sauces we’ll be serving too. First is the mango+avocado salsa, and secondly there’s what I like to call the GS3 (Ginger Sesame Sake Sauce). We had the same sauces when we had our version of the kalbi tacos two weeks ago, and that was…B-O-M-B (that’s vernacular for “Cool” Mom)!
Before I forget, here are a couple of quick pics from Pure Luck, and one of my old favorites - Scoops (I was there for the first/last kimchi flavored ice cream… I would concur with that choice not to revisit that idea ^_^). Since it’s getting late, quick summary: food is good and these jack fruit meat substitutions are very good in texture and flavor. Who would have thunk it?!?!
Jack Fruit “Carnitas” taco, “Carnitas” burrito & Tom BBQ Pork Sandwich (made up of jack fruit of course): |
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So come one, come all and please spread the love, word and support us as we continue out into the new frontier of Asian Mexi-Mix adventures.
Btw, you can come along for the ride on Wednesday nights too. We’re going to be doing our first service this Wed, June 10th. Time TBD, but most likely 6p to like 8p/9p
Much love to you all,
Team Starry Kitchen
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