Though I have a couple of Chinese food cook books, when I do stir fry, I typically just play it by ear. A few years ago, that would not have been the case; I don't know why it was post-college before I really knew how to cook. I did, however, benefit from a Chinese food cooking lesson before that time, from my aunt and uncle. We picked recipes, went shopping for the ingredients (in Philadelphia!), and made the meal. I think that was also the first time I'd encountered a rice cooker (I have my own now).
The above stir fry was beef (sirloin tips were on super sale, mysteriously), green beans, ginger (fresh is best), garlic, Five Spice Powder, Sriracha, soy sauce (of course) and sesame oil. Unless I'm baking, I frequently won't measure things either, just eyeball them. This typically works out well, but makes replication (or recipe relation) difficult.
Though Elka does not mind Sriracha (we used it to try and stop her from chewing on the walls in the kitchen when she was a puppy; she licked it off), I saved some green beans for her before all of the spicy goodness was added. It's amazing, how much this dog loves green beans!
Ermahgerd, green beans!
Looks good but we will leave it for mom
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Gotta love siracha sauce! It's a staple in my household, but then again, we are Asian :)
ReplyDeleteI kind of made up my own stir fry sauce one day when DK was heavily lacking in the kitchen department. Equal parts soy sauce and honey and a couple cloves of garlic. Yum :)
The stir fry does look quite good!
I think "made up stir fry" is the best kind! I've followed recipes before, but they alway seem to need tweaking. Your soy-honey-garlic sounds tasty!
DeleteOh, that looks good!!! Ma is all droolin' now.
ReplyDeleteElka, you can have my green beans....YUK! Hate me some veggies.
Drives Ma crazy....
Kisses,
Ruby
Looks yummy and not too much chopping involved. :)
ReplyDeleteI confess, I will frequently use frozen veggies in my stir fries, especially in winter. Why buy slightly grody green beans AND snap them when I can just have a "nice" batch from the freezer?
DeleteLooks really good. Can't beat fresh ginger. Toby loves green beans, and Meadow tolerates them, but Leah will actually pick them out of her food and spit them out on the floor.
ReplyDeleteWe've tried giving ours green beans and they won't touch them! I'm glad Elka likes them! That food looks fantastic, too, btw!
ReplyDeleteKoly & Fe will throw themselves if I have green beans out! The stir fry sounds great! We'll have to try it.
ReplyDeleteOh yum! That makes me so hungry! I learnt to cook only after I got married. Hated the kitchen as a kid though my parents tried their best to get me in there. I hardly could make a coffee or boil an egg in college, yup that bad. I could not live without my rice cooker! I don't think I even know how to cook rice by boiling. We have a fresh pot made up every 3 days or so for Georgia. What is Sriracha? I'm pretty clued in to Chinese/Asian cooking but have never heard of this.
ReplyDeleteSriracha is a Thai chili sauce. I've heard that it isn't "authentic Thai", and was rather invented by a Thai-American in order to mimic sauces of his homeland or some such. I like it with beef especially (as in this stir fry, or in the ground beef when I make burgers, or (lightly!) as a condiment on a roast beef sandwich. It has HEAT, but still has a lot of great taste. They seem to have it pretty much everywhere in the "Asian section" of grocery stores, or at least at the stores I frequent. It's decently priced as well (though most Asian ingredients tend to be, in my experience)
Deletehttp://www.amazon.com/Huy-Fong-Sriracha-Chili-Sauce/dp/B0002PSOJW
Thank you! I use Thai sweet chilli sauce a lot. NOT good for the waistline LOL. Must be like California rolls and fortune cookies ;)
DeleteI not like green beans but a stir fry woulds be yummy! Might skip the hot sauce an soy too. Elka you gots a tough tummy!
ReplyDeleteNice recipe, I already try to cook it and it was really delicious. By the way, can I have a request? Can you make me a stir fried chicken recipe? I don't know on how to make it. Thanks in advance.
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