{"id":1615,"date":"2010-01-06T16:01:59","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T21:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1615"},"modified":"2010-01-06T16:01:59","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T21:01:59","slug":"country-fried-chow-mein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1615","title":{"rendered":"Country-fried chow mein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/l-chowmein-4.JPG' title='l-chowmein-4.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/l-chowmein-4.JPG' alt='l-chowmein-4.JPG' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Frankly, I&#8217;m pretty bad at cooking Chinese food. I often wonder if one doesn&#8217;t need to be born Chinese to do it properly. But, if you&#8217;ve got a pile of home-grown mung bean sprouts, what are you gonna do?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the noodles that make the chow mein. I have no idea where one might get proper chow mein noodles around here. But whole wheat linguini will do in a pinch. After the linguini has been cooked, brown the noodles lightly in an oiled pan and add some soy sauce, then add the vegetables and stir-fry.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/l-chowmein-1.JPG' title='l-chowmein-1.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/l-chowmein-1.JPG' alt='l-chowmein-1.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>You do make your own sprouts, don&#8217;t you?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/l-chowmein-2.JPG' title='l-chowmein-2.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/l-chowmein-2.JPG' alt='l-chowmein-2.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Mushrooms, onions, garlic, and celery &#8212; easy winter vegetables<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/l-chowmein-3.JPG' title='l-chowmein-3.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/l-chowmein-3.JPG' alt='l-chowmein-3.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>You know you like &#8217;em fried.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frankly, I&#8217;m pretty bad at cooking Chinese food. I often wonder if one doesn&#8217;t need to be born Chinese to do it properly. But, if you&#8217;ve got a pile of home-grown mung bean sprouts, what are you gonna do? It&#8217;s the noodles that make the chow mein. I have no idea where one might get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1615\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Country-fried chow mein&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}