{"id":2877,"date":"2015-06-01T07:11:12","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T05:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=2877"},"modified":"2015-09-04T11:00:27","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T09:00:27","slug":"restaurant-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=2877","title":{"rendered":"Restaurant Quality"},"content":{"rendered":"

Winter has hit Cape Town. Wet, cold and miserable. The perfect weather for staying indoors and cooking soup.<\/p>\n

I found some whole baby clams at the Fruit & Veg. Just the thing for clam chowder (something I’ve been wanting to make ever since having the Real Thing in San Francisco. Problem being that Tanya doesn’t like fishy dishes, so I needed an alternative.<\/p>\n

Enter General Tso’s chicken<\/a>, another recipe that’s been keeping a tab open on Firefox for quite some time.<\/p>\n

Basically, you dredge the chicken (breast fillet cubes) in cornflour and fry it, then it goes into a slow cooker with a Hoisin \/ soy \/ rice vinegar sauce for four* hours. Add some more sauce at the end and you’re done.<\/p>\n

For the chowder, I used Christina’s recipe<\/a>, except that I had whole clams which I first needed to steam open. I then incorporated the water \/ clam juice into the white sauce, boiled the potatoes (small cubes) and onions, and added the bacon and chopped clams at the end.<\/p>\n

Now I need to figure out how to make a sour dough starter<\/a> so that I can serve the chowder properly<\/a> next time.<\/p>\n

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* Recipe calls for four hours. We were hungry well before the three hour mark, so that’s how much time we gave it. Worked well enough.

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