Anyone looking back at what I’ve cooked can immediately see I’m relatively carnivorous. I like my meat. However, both of my siblings are vegetarian – one is even vegan and I’ve often eaten at a vegan restaurant. On my most recent grocery shopping I saw some fake chicken and beef and thought I’d give it a try.
Sautéed Chicken – another try
April 18, 2008 Food No comments chicken, skillet
I tried the chicken again. I had the Foster Farms chicken thawed and when comparing it to the size of my skillet, it was a bit much.
I forgot the salt and pepper – eating it now, its a bit bland – the salt and pepper are critical. Instead of olives, I went for a combination of onions, a orange bell pepper and some water chestnuts. They work nice in the mix, but with the chicken being bland – they help, but not enough.
I’ll have to remember to do this on the wok next time rather than the skillet.
All in all, it was just ok.
Thoughts for awhile
April 13, 2008 Food No comments thoughts
It has been awhile since I’ve written. I’ve picked up some things, and tried some things.
I have a stir fry sauce that works quite nice in a stir fry. No surprise there. Just adds a nice traditional flavor to it.
Lemongrass Beef
April 3, 2008 Food No comments beef, lemongrass, stir-fry, thoughts
Previously playing with lemongrass chicken, I was curious about how something else would go. I’ve got three types of frozen meat in my freezer – chicken, beef, and salmon. Some day I might add some pork to the freezer bags… but anyways…
Chicken is nice for this because it doesn’t have much flavor. There is no conflict of flavor in there. Beef on the other hand has its own flavor. This is often a good thing, and in the lemongrass beef, it wasn’t a bad thing. But it wasn’t a particularly good thing either.
Just some salmon
April 3, 2008 Food No comments pepper, salmon, tin-foil
After a few nights of stir fry, I wanted to go back to something I was familiar with – a hunk of salmon. Thats not the most descriptive word, but its a good name for it.
Hot hot hot
April 1, 2008 Food No comments beef, stir-fry
I pulled out the stuff for doing a beef stir fry. This morning I took some beef from the freezer and put it in the fridge. Found out it was the stroganoff cut again. Chopped up an onion, and put it in a bowl, and a pepper third. Then I opened a can of crushed pineapple, and a can of bamboo shoots – about a half a can of each in a bowl.
Lemongrass Chicken
March 30, 2008 Food No comments chicken, lemongrass, wok
Common to Thai food is lemongrass. Occasionally you see lemongrass at some trendy place, and I knew it was supposed to have a lemon flavor to it, so I wanted to play with it.
Asian Market
March 30, 2008 Food No comments
I knew that the things I had just wouldn’t work for the full range of stir-fries that can be done. I didn’t have any chili paste, nor any hot oil… and safeway didn’t have any either in the asian section (about 3 shelves 3 feet wide). Fortunately, there is a corner near by that has two asian food stores. One was more an import items, the other was a grocery store – I went to the grocery store.
The Wurst
March 28, 2008 Food No comments
Brautwurst, mustard, onions on tortilla
Bratwurst that is. I’m originally from Wisconsin. The state that has Green Bay and cheese heads. Sheboygan, Wisconsin – bratwurst capital of the world. The state (the story goes) that when Madison went to the Rose Bowl in ’94 Anaheim ran out of bratwurst in the stores.
A simple stir-fry
March 23, 2008 Food No comments bamboo, beef, wok