{"id":16668,"date":"2022-01-17T07:25:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T12:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/?p=16668"},"modified":"2022-01-17T07:25:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T12:25:44","slug":"kung-pao-in-the-time-of-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/?p=16668","title":{"rendered":"Kung Pao in the Time of COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"

\ud83d\udc68\u200d\ud83c\udf73 Cooking in the Time of COVID \ud83d\udc68\u200d\ud83c\udf73<\/p>\n

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\nAs a hedge against renewed COVID angst and the current wave of Kafkaesque national politics, I\u2019m cleaving to this course again for a little while, just until the omicron spike subsides. (Some say the graph is shaped like an ice pick but I can\u2019t help seeing it as an inverted hypodermic needle.)<\/p>\n

Because I ran out of Ben & Jerry\u2019s but I did have chicken and crunchy peanuts on hand, Kung Pao will have to do for today\u2019s comfort food.<\/p>\n

In addition to those two ingredients, I added red bell peppers and scallions along with dried chili peppers, Sichuan peppercorns, garlic, ginger, and yibin yacai<\/em> (preserved mustard greens) for the aromatic flavor burst component, and sugar, soy sauce, Shaoxing wine, Zhenjiang vinegar, and Guizhou fermented black bean chili sauce to keep it together.<\/p>\n

And apropos of keeping it together, I can’t help but wonder if it\u2019s possible that between the red bell peppers and the green scallions, I was subconsciously trying to keep Christmas around a little longer.
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\nStay safe, be well, and eat whatever it takes. \u2764\ufe0f
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