Daily writing prompt

What’s your favorite recipe?

View all responses

Morning.

Well, I would usually be posting another piece of writing advice today (or better still, yesterday), but once again I’m stumped – I don’t quite know what people exactly need help with and, if I do, I need time to put it into words. Might as well make it a fornightly thing to give me more time to mull it over. Anyway, let me know if there’s some elements of novelry you’re struggling with.

Now, in the meantime, I might as well stay accountable by responding to (ugh, god) another random prompt – what’s my favourite recipe?

Now, as I have said before, I do like to cook a variety of stuff. Though I can make a neat stir fry and a edible pasta dish (I make too much carbonara), my savoury speciality has more than a cup of sugar in it. I first learnt of “chinese orange chicken” from, er, binging “Binging with babish”. Panda Express isn’t available in my country – all the other takeaways don’t have anything similar on their menus, but I had to try it after seeing it! It sounded like a superior duc l’orange – deep fried, sticky nuggets of fowl upon a bed of steamy rice. Might sound horrible to some of you, but for me, my first tasting was well worth the 3 hours I spent preparing it – double battering takes a long time. I make it every season or so as a special treat for my family. My way of saying thanks for putting up with the mess I leave in the kitchen.

The recipe I have actually taken to using isn’t the Babish original, but rather Melissa Stadler’s “Modern Honey” recipe available through this link: https://www.modernhoney.com/chinese-orange-chicken/

Now, chinese orange chicken is not a British speciality – in fact, I don’t think it’s part of wider chinese-american cuisine, let alone among the original nations many cultures. For my favourite rustic recipe, I give you a rather cheap recipe for Toad in the hole by the reader’s Digest (See “Amazing meals for less than £2.50 per person). I can’t find a copy of said recipe online and can’t be arsed to type it up at the moment – maybe another time – but I absolutely beg anyone abroad to try and cook toad in the whole. Nothing to do with frogs, it’s basically sausage fried in yorkshire pudding batter – simple but the pinnacle of the otherwise mediocre state of british cuisine. Great for a winter dinner, lemme tell you!

Well, hope that’s given you an appetite for the day. I’ll shut up now and leave you to enjoy your life. Please, let me know if there’s any writing advice you’d like me to disgorge.

Have a nice weekend toad in the hole, seriously.