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Gōyā chanpurū!
Been a long time since I used the Farmer's Market Dinner tag, but this is really the first thing I've had in a while that qualifies.
The farmer's market has a lot of repeat vendors, of course, and Nichol's Farm has shown up a lot in previous farmer's market dinner posts. Last week when we went, we found that they inexplicably had a bunch of gōyā (Okinawan ゴーヤー, "bitter melon") and were talking about it to another customer. I told![[instagram.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/profile_icons/instagram.png)
sashagee that we had to buy one and I'd cook with it and she agreed, and when I brought it up to the counter, the farmers asked me if I knew what it was. I told them that I used to live in Japan and I had made gōyā chanpurū before, they were surprised and asked that I show them pictures when I was done and tell them how it went, so that'll happen next farmer's market.
Traditional gōyā chanpurū has pork in it, like most Okinawan cuisine, but while we didn't have any beef hayashi like I wanted--sashagee wasn't feeling well most of last week and didn't make it to the store like she planned--we did have ground beef, so I used that instead. You can see the rest of the recipe here, and we fortunately had the rest of the ingredients on hand--and for extra farmer's market credit the eggs came from Green Fire Farms, and honestly the tofu might have come from Phoenix Bean Tofu since they're a huge national supplier even though at the farmer's market they only sell ready-to-eat meals. I sliced the gōyā and salted it to remove some of the bitterness, cooked the tofu, then then cooked the gōyā, then cooked the beef, then put in everything else, topped it with katsuobushi that I had stuck in the back of our pantry, and served it:
Also visible is our new dinner table made by my father.
I thought it was amazing. Gōyā is extremely bitter, but the egg and the meat and the soy sauce all together helped mitigate the bitterness on any particular bite.sashagee did not agree--she took a few bites and then said that it just wasn't her thing. Laila was in the middle. She'd eat some, and every time her tongue touched a bit of gōyā she'd make a brief 
face...and then she'd take a few more bites until it happened again. I'm proud of her for continuing to try even though there was something in it she clearly didn't like.
I made a whole pan of it and it looks like it's almost all for me! I can't wait.
The farmer's market has a lot of repeat vendors, of course, and Nichol's Farm has shown up a lot in previous farmer's market dinner posts. Last week when we went, we found that they inexplicably had a bunch of gōyā (Okinawan ゴーヤー, "bitter melon") and were talking about it to another customer. I told
sashagee that we had to buy one and I'd cook with it and she agreed, and when I brought it up to the counter, the farmers asked me if I knew what it was. I told them that I used to live in Japan and I had made gōyā chanpurū before, they were surprised and asked that I show them pictures when I was done and tell them how it went, so that'll happen next farmer's market.Traditional gōyā chanpurū has pork in it, like most Okinawan cuisine, but while we didn't have any beef hayashi like I wanted--
sashagee wasn't feeling well most of last week and didn't make it to the store like she planned--we did have ground beef, so I used that instead. You can see the rest of the recipe here, and we fortunately had the rest of the ingredients on hand--and for extra farmer's market credit the eggs came from Green Fire Farms, and honestly the tofu might have come from Phoenix Bean Tofu since they're a huge national supplier even though at the farmer's market they only sell ready-to-eat meals. I sliced the gōyā and salted it to remove some of the bitterness, cooked the tofu, then then cooked the gōyā, then cooked the beef, then put in everything else, topped it with katsuobushi that I had stuck in the back of our pantry, and served it:Also visible is our new dinner table made by my father.
I thought it was amazing. Gōyā is extremely bitter, but the egg and the meat and the soy sauce all together helped mitigate the bitterness on any particular bite.
sashagee did not agree--she took a few bites and then said that it just wasn't her thing. Laila was in the middle. She'd eat some, and every time her tongue touched a bit of gōyā she'd make a brief face...and then she'd take a few more bites until it happened again. I'm proud of her for continuing to try even though there was something in it she clearly didn't like.I made a whole pan of it and it looks like it's almost all for me! I can't wait.