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August
Things from the Dirt - Moo Shoorito
The ‘Moo’ comes from Moo Shoo as in the
flimsy little tortilla type thing that you get when
you order this dish at a Chinese restaurant. In
talking to a Chinese girl, she told me the
authentic translation for this term is
‘pancake.’ Damn that’s original!
Well, those pancake things always fall apart so
this recipe calls for tortillas. Now there’s a
wrap that’ll hold anything. Since it’s a
tortilla, I took the ‘rito’ away from
‘bur’ and there it is.
This is a great meal if you are with a girl who
is a vegetarian. So, when she shows up with the
leather Gucci purse and peels of her leather Calvin
Klein jacket to stay awhile, you can show your
sensitivity to her needs by serving this
‘veggie’ dish.
Ingredients
1. 2 cups of frozen vegetables (fresh if you
prefer to work harder by chopping them). The ones
you want will have to have some water chestnuts,
bell peppers and some small pea pods. Really, to be
easy about it, just look for frozen vegetables that
have that words stir-fry, Asian or Oriental or
something
2. A package of flour tortillas
3. Hoi sin sauce. This is found in the ethnic food
section of any major shopping chain. If you go to
the ethnic section of the store and find only
macaroni and cheese, white bread and cheese whiz,
this means that you are in Chinatown and have to go
to their regular sauce and dressing section
Directions
See that the vegetables are cut into small
pieces with none larger than a dice. Toss a little
water in a pan, maybe about ¼” deep and
heat it up. Put the chopped veggies in there and
get them so they are warm. Keeping the vegetables
crisp but warm/hot is the best, as they taste
better. But, as they are frozen, they have probably
lost all their taste anyway. So, put a teeny bit of
soy sauce in there. Soy means salt in Japanese and
Chinese.
Serving
To serve this meal, drain the veggies and put
them in a covered bowl so that they will stay warm.
Also, have the hoi sin in a bowl with a nice little
spoon and then put both it and the veggies on the
table. Then, take a flour tortilla, put it on a
microwave safe plate and nuke it for 22 seconds.
You want the tortilla to be warm and pliable which
is pretty much how you want your date to be later.
Get two of these going as close together as
possible so that you can eat together.
When the tortillas are set, bring them out and
demonstrate the proper technique. Put a bead of hoi
sin in the center of your tortilla and on top of
it, put a nice line of vegetables. Roll it up like
a burrito and there you are. Ah, so good!
©2008, by Ron
DesMarais
Related Books
Ron
DesMarais started life in Charlottesville, VA and
has lived in several parts of the United States.
When people hear the number of times he has moved,
the question invariably arises as to whether or not
he was an ‘Army Brat.’ There is only a
half-truth there and that is found by dropping
‘Army’; unless, you consider ‘Army
of Darkness.’ After moving with his parents
for several years, Ron continued his nomadic ways,
which were spurred by his mother’s finding out
where he currently lived. In the process of
changing dwellings and never getting rental
deposits back (which he claims were never his
fault), Ron’s financial status required that
he start cooking for himself, as he could not
afford eating out. This resulted in his quickly
getting bored with Top Ramen and deciding to get
creative in the kitchen. Soon, a list of recipes
with a limited number of inexpensive ingredients
started coming together. What really bolstered the
creation of his book Cavemen
in the Kitchen, and the
writing of it as not just a cookbook but a
‘dating aid’ as well was when Ron ended
up at a date’s house after a financially
draining evening out. As both were hungry but Ron
too broke and both too tired to go out somewhere,
Ron dug through her cabinets, found some items to
work with and based on a recipe he had created
earlier, he created a meal for both. She loved it
and the results of the meal were amazing in ways
those under 18 should not hear about. From that
point, dates for Ron consisted of cooking dinner,
either at his house or the date’s house, and
afterwards, either watching a video or doing
something else. Click here
to order a copy of the book (Contains adult
content.)
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