{"id":240,"date":"2004-06-21T00:26:36","date_gmt":"2004-06-21T00:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2004\/06\/cooking-with-goya\/"},"modified":"2004-06-21T00:26:36","modified_gmt":"2004-06-21T00:26:36","slug":"cooking-with-goya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2004\/06\/21\/cooking-with-goya\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooking With Goya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I cooked with goya(bitter melon) for the first time, and it turned out awesome! I first tried goya in Okinawa as a component in a chop suey-like dish, and made it with the help of a friend. After you try this dish, you might grow to love the bumpy-cucumber-like hunk of bitterness.<br \/>\n<b>Goya Champura<\/b><br \/>\nIngredients:<br \/>\n1 goya, cored and sliced thin into half-rings<br \/>\n1 onion, cut into (half) rings<br \/>\na few cloves of garlic, minced<br \/>\none half a loaf of SPAM, chopped into thin slices<br \/>\none block of firm tofu, cubed<br \/>\nfour eggs, scrambled<br \/>\none teaspoon of sesame oil<br \/>\none teaspoon of olive oil<br \/>\ntwo heaping tablespoons of miso paste<br \/>\none tablespoon of toubanjan (red chili paste)<br \/>\nDirections:<br \/>\nFry the goya, onions, and SPAM in the oil on high heat, until the onions become translucent and then add the garlic along with the miso and toubanjan and cook for a few more minutes. Add in the tofu and the eggs with some salt and pepper and cook until the eggs are done.<br \/>\nThis dish shows off the versatility of spam, in its ability to tame a food as bitter as goya. Like it or hate it, but above all, respect the SPAM.<br \/>\nNote:<br \/>\nDue to the high sodium content of SPAM, I suggest going light on the salt. If you want to get seriously Okinawan, then you should eat this with a slowly stewed pig&#8217;s foot (this is so f*cking delicious that all negative connotations of pig&#8217;s feet will disappear once you eat it), grilled lobster and steak, a small, deep-fried red snapper without its filets (basically the head, bones, and tail), and some awamori, aged 20 years (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sake-world.com\/html\/shochu-awamori.html\" target=\"_blank\">100% kusu<\/a>, of course!).<br \/>\nFor more info on goya, and another goya champura recipe, check <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jetanuki.com\/inside\/island_izakaya\/food.htm\" target=\"_blank\">this page<\/a>. Mmmmm&#8230; Goya Beer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I cooked with goya(bitter melon) for the first time, and it turned out awesome! I first tried goya in Okinawa as a component in a chop suey-like dish, and made it with the help of a friend. After you try this dish, you might grow to love the bumpy-cucumber-like hunk of bitterness. Goya &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2004\/06\/21\/cooking-with-goya\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}