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
Chicken Ideas
March 21, 2008 Food No comments chicken, thoughts
I was going to go for a pizza chicken packet that I’ve read about. The idea was chicken, pizza sauce, mozzarella cheese, pepperoni, onions, peppers in a packet. I was getting the things together and pulled out the pizza sauce. I opened it up, and there was something that wasn’t pizza sauce on the top of it. It might be possible to remove it and go from there, but I’ve got this ingrained idea of food back when I worked at a Boy Scout camp. The commissary rule was “If in doubt, throw it out.”
Peppers, Bamboo and Beef
March 10, 2008 Food No comments bamboo, beef, tin-foil
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.
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.
Mustard Chicken
March 8, 2008 Food No comments chicken, mustard, tin-foil
I have a fondness for mustard. Simply said, it is the greatest of condiments. Unfortunately, I haven’t had the opportunity and guidelines to mix that into the recipes I’ve worked with. I found a recipe for honey mustard chicken, but I wanted to try something with some more zing to it (especially after the bamboo and beef).
Bamboo and Beef
March 7, 2008 Food No comments beef, tin-foil
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.
Pineapple Chicken – Take 2
March 3, 2008 Food No comments chicken, pineapple, tin-foil
Learning from previous experiments I tried this again while it was still fresh in my mind. Mixing the sauce beforehand and doing it as a sauce rather than separate ingredients lead to flavor that stuck to the chicken which was very good. The pineapple and peppers where there, and I didn’t put any pearl onions on top, though I did add a good amount of water chestnuts on top.
As I said, the flavor stuck and the meat was prepared well. I’ve got to get a oven top grill to work that some time. All in all, it was good.
On portion sizes, I’d have to go and look at sizes agin. Something to pay attention to in the future. I’ll probably go get more groceries tomorrow (I’m down to one salmon fillet).
Pineapple Chicken
March 2, 2008 Food No comments chicken, pineapple, tin-foil
I have two bags of chicken fingers in the freezer. Now one… Safeway had some chicken fingers that where reasonably small that I could split it up into two freezer bags that were about one portion each. From what I’ve had, thats about right.