It's chicken with a red wine, mushroom, bacon sauce. I mostly followed this recipe and I'd highly recommend it. The sauce is killer. The real French recipe is meant to tenderize rooster meat, but who eats rooster?
I used a moderately priced pinot noir. Really cheap five buck chuck type wine like you typically use in cooking probably isn't the way to go with this dish since the wine is a central focus. You're also only going to use maybe 1/3 of the bottle, which leaves you drinking the rest. So pick something you would like to drink and use that.
I keep eating at Han Dynasty, even though it's clearly too spicy for me. Usually it's just a general anesthetic that numbs my face and give me a runny nose. But today my ears felt like they were going to implode inward into my skull. Food was good.
the symptoms for me to slow down is when my scalp starts sweating. fairly normal for that to me when i eat some beef noodle soups, generally a vietnamese dish called bun bo hue.
I made some super delicious pork and green chili but the chilies are so freaking hot I can only eat a little at a time and then the second visit is even worse. I need to find some mild green chilies.
I think I've found the best all around method for making good coffee: Italian Bialetti Moka pots. Almost 100% of Italian households have a Bialetti, and now I understand why. It makes really good espresso, only takes about 3-5 minutes to make multiple espresso shots, and is super easy to clean. It's also dirt cheap compared to using a pod machine like a Keurig or Nespresso. I like my Nespresso. I just don't like spending $100 every two weeks on coffee. Good lord those pods are expensive. And no one other than Nespresso sells them (well Amazon does, but they actually cost more than they do from Nespresso). Still not as expensive as going to Starbucks all the time, but not far off either.
I had a job once in college where I got free espresso, and that taught me to stay away from espresso. It's like legal meth.
It's good stuff man. Espresso = real coffee Good coffee is supposed to make you feel like you just did some coke or meth.
I started out with one shot, and quickly escalated to three. Had I continued, I would have ended up toothless, shirtless, and living out of a van down by the river in South Florida.
But it would have been worth it right? Here is one of my favorites that I don't have very often because I assume it's really bad for me. Also it takes so much patience.
I'm so glad I don't regularly drink coffee or caffeine in general. Watching other people every morning... they do behave like junkies. I did get addicted to Starbucks for few months once, went everyday at lunch. I would get into work at 8am and roaming the halls asking who wanted to go to Starbucks at noon.
Coffee I can handle, but I try not to drink any outside of the AM. It doesn't give me that hollow-eyed, shuffling feeling when it wears off like espresso does.