Gojiberries!
Despite its being Memorial Day, we had a simple Monday dinner last night. Pork and chicken bones boiled for several hours and then used to cook some ginger, gojiberries, white pepper, and thin Taiwanese noodles. Topped with scallions, of course. 
Gojiberries were always associated in my brain with Chinese medicine, but they're appearing in health food stores everywhere now. They're kind of fun to eat. They're a little tangy, a little sweet, and have a lot of tiny seeds that pop kind of the way strawberry seeds do. 
We also got a HUGE pot today. I wanted a bigger one but It wouldn't have fit on our stovetop or in our sink. A big yellow 16 qt. stockpot now means I have one big pot in every primary color: a red all-purpose non-stick thick-bottomed clad pot, a blue Le Creuset enameled cast iron, and now a big yellow relatively lightweight Tivoli enameled stockpot. What's cooking in it, you ask? You'll just have to wait to find out. I promise, it's different.
Gojiberries were always associated in my brain with Chinese medicine, but they're appearing in health food stores everywhere now. They're kind of fun to eat. They're a little tangy, a little sweet, and have a lot of tiny seeds that pop kind of the way strawberry seeds do. We also got a HUGE pot today. I wanted a bigger one but It wouldn't have fit on our stovetop or in our sink. A big yellow 16 qt. stockpot now means I have one big pot in every primary color: a red all-purpose non-stick thick-bottomed clad pot, a blue Le Creuset enameled cast iron, and now a big yellow relatively lightweight Tivoli enameled stockpot. What's cooking in it, you ask? You'll just have to wait to find out. I promise, it's different.posted by Pei at
8:01 AM
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Haha gojiberries - I never knew the name of those things. Same as you, i've always associated them with herbal medicine. Whenever I was sick, my mom would boil chicken forever with those gojiberries, chinese mushrooms and fish sauce. So good.
Now, that is one mean Le Creuset pot. I don't want to imagine how much that thing is. I have the same sized pot you do in the back (mine is yellow) and that killed my wallet. I wonder how many bowls of beef noodle soup and pho you can make in that.
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