Bang Bang! Noodles

This week's dish comes courtesy of a friend. He posted this recipe for Biang Biang noodles onto Facebook and I knew right then and there I needed to make them. 

So I did. 

These noodles hail from the Shaanxi province in China, so whereas last week's dish was Chinese-American, this dish is firmly Chinese. 

It was my first time with hand pulled noodles. I would recommend first watching some videos of people doing it. Don't try for perfection, the flavor will make up for appearances. 

Lordy these are good. Make them. 

Riz Frit

Most of my recipes are done on weekends, when I can spend the day (and daylight) shopping, prepping, photographing and such at leisure. But there's at least 15 other meals that don't fit into those two, all too short days. 

Fried Rice is great for weeknights, as all the components cook up quite quickly. The trick is to get your Mise en Place on point, as working with a wok can go very wrong if you're not ready. 

I used the Fried Rice recipe from Peter Meehan's Lucky Peach Presents: 101 Easy Asian Recipes. I also got to break in the flat bottomed wok my sister gifted for Christmas. Since I like to pretend I'm healthy 5 days a week, I subbed Trader Joe's Riced Cauliflower for actual rice.