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For anyone seriously interested in doing their own cooking, stir frying is an easy skill to master and very worth the effort. The only tricks are a really sharp knife to cut thin and draining on the hot side of the wok to get rid of most of the fat.

You have complete control of how much meat, which veggies and how much rice to eat with it. You can go from meat free to meat lover with complete control. You do not have to add chinese things like bamboo shoots and water chestnuts or lychees. You can add fruits for variety. Everything works. Incredibly everything works. I assume that comes from the fat used for sauteing things.

For that you can render fat from the meat or use peanut oil, high temp oil. Everything works about the same just different flavors. For veggieheads tofu works just fine. You can clean out a fridge and make a unique meal that you will like.

Very few things do not work without extra prep like potatoes. But they are not much different from the ever popular carrots in cooking time. The special treatment needed for some things is most of the learning curve. But save for things potatoes, half raw is a nice variation. But over cooked is so American and British that they work too.

I never found a meat that does not work nor a quality of meat that made much difference. The slicing is so thin and the cooking so easily longer with cheaper meats that it is sort of a waste to buy expensive cuts.

I assume there is a lot I learned I am not explaining but I always ate my product and never produced anything inedible. What I learned from eating only guided making it better. I fed guests with this who asked if I was going to do it again on the occasion of the next invite in an eager sense. The same sense as when they invited themselves over when I had a batch of mead ready.
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Fake seafood salad, blue cheese stuffed olives, and a cheese danish. Washed down with extra pulpy orange juice and cola.


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Braising some lamb shanks in Merlot and stock with mirepoix, garlic, shallots, tomatoes, rosemary and thyme. 2 hours to go!



30 minutes to go, then I have to reduce the sauce. The entire house smells like wonderful cooked lamb, Merlot, rosemary and thyme.

Good enough for Jehovah!




Easy, now. Put the rocks down.
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Funny (strange) I'm doing Roast Lamb & Veggies tonight.


Yours sounds much more creative...gotta get me a "Slow-Cooker"
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(May 22, 2013 at 3:32 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: Funny (strange) I'm doing Roast Lamb & Veggies tonight.


Yours sounds much more creative...gotta get me a "Slow-Cooker"

It was delicious - melt in your mouth tender. You don't need a slow cooker, I used a Dutch oven on the stove.
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(May 22, 2013 at 3:44 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:
(May 22, 2013 at 3:32 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: Funny (strange) I'm doing Roast Lamb & Veggies tonight.


Yours sounds much more creative...gotta get me a "Slow-Cooker"

It was delicious - melt in your mouth tender. You don't need a slow cooker, I used a Dutch oven on the stove.

Don't have "Dutch Oven" either Sad
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
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(May 22, 2013 at 4:02 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote:
(May 22, 2013 at 3:44 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: It was delicious - melt in your mouth tender. You don't need a slow cooker, I used a Dutch oven on the stove.

Don't have "Dutch Oven" either Sad

6-10 liter pot with a lid?
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(May 22, 2013 at 7:40 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:
(May 22, 2013 at 4:02 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: Don't have "Dutch Oven" either Sad

6-10 liter pot with a lid?

Nope. Sad little bunch of pots and some baking trays. Only excuse is lack of funds. Still got to get me a slow cooker/ hotpot.
Oh and children didn't like what they deemed as " boil-ups"

So what's on the menu for tonight?
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
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Nothing special. Hawaiian pulled pork with rice. Most nights I don't cook and eat out instead. Cooking for one is usually more trouble than it's worth.
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Hmm I have to check the freezer (for the meat) but I think an easy meal might be in order. Zen is getting a bit over weight with my cooking.

Spaghetti Bolognese might fit the bill
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