I’ll TAKE YOU OUT!

Grannie had a serious Jones for some General Tsao’s Chicken! Been asking me for weeks now! We always loved it from a particular restaurant in DC, but that was many moons ago, when take out was a regular; so, it’s been a long while since I’ve even picked up Chinese Takeout.

So, I do what I do! I make it from scratch with all the fresh stuff - garlic, ginger, red hot chili peppers, orange zest (the rhine, the juice & the pulp), black strap molasses (instead of white sugar), a splash of rice wine vinegar, sesame & peanut oil, a little soy, not so salty, not so hot! I always prefer roasted vegetables and notice, no rice! Whaaat, No!

OhMaGawd, yes, with so much flavor, truly, you won’t even miss the rice, the egg rolls nor those little packs of HBP sauces! The General Tsao sauce speaks loud and clear! Let’s errrybody know, Um here! Like when you KNOW you gotta good man, grown, lets it be known, “Baby, YOU, all I need!” That, that, that’s the kind of a relationship with, uh, uh MY FOOD - reeks of flavor - lingering down the hall, bouncing off the walls, oozing out of the woodwork, wait’n on THAT call! Yes, I deliver! How may I serve you? Hee, hee!

I’LL TAKE YOU OUT! Y’all here me!

Okay, okay, I can get carried away! Back to reality, still and though I put heat five ways in that sauce (red chili peppers, red pepper flakes, Grannie’s Lemon Pepper AND my homemade hot sauce), Grannie said it wasn’t spicy hot enough for her - a higher tolerance!

Which just means, it’s perfect for most of us; I think I’ll put this on the menu for the next COLORED WOMEN’S EATING CLUB this October 19th!

Mark your calendars for, of course, guiding our light, we’ve the honor and pleasure of THE Sandra Mizell Chaney! Oh, having her back, now that’s hot and just the takeaway WE ALL NEED - fresh, real and from the soul! It’s a spiritual delivery!

Anyway, my take on take out this Labor Day! #ThingsThatMakeYouGoOom