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Lemongrass Beef

April 3, 2008 Food No comments , , ,

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.

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Hot hot hot

April 1, 2008 Food No comments ,

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.

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A simple stir-fry

March 23, 2008 Food No comments , ,

I previously got a wok – a nice cast iron one.  Cast iron requires ‘seasoning’.  With some lard or other saturated fat and heating the iron forms a bond with the fat to make a permeant non-stick surface.  It looks ‘dirty’ or like teflon, but quite a bit more natural.

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Peppers, Bamboo and Beef

March 10, 2008 Food No comments , ,

I had pulled out the beef the last night and poured a little bit of teriyaki sauce in the bag and put it in the refrigerator to thaw.  Its nice having the meat marinated, adds more flavor.

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A layer of white onions (using the last of them, back to red onions).  Then the beef, and then a bit of red pepper flakes on top of that.  Those peppers were very noticeable in the ultimate flavor.  Then the second half of the can of bamboo, a few pearl onions (well, more than a few, the rest of them), and then a small red pepper on top of that.  The teriyaki sauce that I had was then poured over to it and then a little bit of ginger.  I couldn’t quite pick out the ginger in the flavor.  Next time, I’ll try it with no red peppers and instead just ginger to see if I can detect that flavor.

Bamboo and Beef

March 7, 2008 Food No comments ,

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Being a little bit more adventurist, I tossed a few items together.  The first was some onions.  Red onions are less tear inducing than white, but white have a nice zing to them that red just lack.  On top of that was some beef from a round cut.  The meat was precut for a stir-fry.  Then some teriyaki sauce on top of that.  Over that was half a can of bamboo shoots and then two small red peppers.

The beef and the bamboo had a nice flavor combination together, but overall it lacked something – some zing of some sort.  Maybe some red pepper on the meat?  Dunno.  Something to think about, but it worked nicely, just a bit bland.