Fight 4 Taste

I love Char Siu!  That delicious boneless roast pork that you get in the finer Chinese restaurants. The cheap takeout restaurants try to make their own version which is known as boneless spareribs, but the real deal is mouthwatering life experience. You can make this at home. There are recipes on the Internet and on YouTube that will show you how to make the most wonderful  Char Siu ever.  For the past couple of years I have been making a recipe that is posted on YouTube by Ci Ci Li.  It is a simple easy to make recipe and the young lady in the video explains how to do it very well. I have brought the results of this recipe to work a couple of times and people have just crazed how wonderful it is. I decided to try another recipe this week by Mike from Strictly Dumpling. His YouTube channel does a wonderful job of selling the excitement that a meal can give you he is very animated and he makes you want to make what he is making, which is a very nice talent. The recipe...

so I was trying to decide what to cook.  In the fridge I hade a flank steak I 5awed a few days ago. Naturally I was thinking Asian. I wanted to see what others might marinade bier flank steak in. One person was boasting a genuine Carne Asada. While it literally means “grilled meat” it is a   a  Mexican  and  Central American  dish of grilled and sliced  beef , usually  arrachera ,  sirloin steak ,  tenderloin steak  or  rib steak , that is charred enough so as to bring the char into the flavor. But I then stumbled upon a quick YouTube video of Katie Brown the craft girl on public tv.She was making flank steak pinwheels. I decided to try them. She was using basil but I wasn’t listening and bought baby spinach.

J

Thank you YouTube,you just saved me a ton of investigative work. The snow has got to melt sometime...if new snow ever stops falling.  So the mad dash for gearing up is well under way in 2018. We have to backpack this year with all of this investing going on.  But what about food? I have plenty of books that tell you how to make Trail meals. But those do not really have practical application in their entirety. There is a 10% return Factor on those things, and which you can apply something that you learn from them into something that you were doing. But that is about it. So we cannot all afford Mountain House meals for every meal as they average about $10 a meal. So last year when I bombed out with Lipton and knor pasta sides, I wondered what to do next. Should I dehydrate all my own food? Should I find something else? Thankfully I found good instructions and cooking the times are adjusted to cozy cooking times. I also learned the cozy cooking almost never works with noodle side...

For five years I have been making Chinese dumplings that most restaurants could never duplicate, but I have been using store bought dumpling wrappers. The natural evolution of cooking demanded that I  make the wrappers from scratch.  My experience with dough is like years ago when I really wanted to cook, but had no idea how things fit together in the food world. It seems weird to be there again with dough. It’s so picky but precise. Today was the 2nd time in a week we used homemade wrappers. So another happy mistake happened. Market basket was out of ground pork so I had them bring up southern style pork ribs. This yielded some serious flavor on top of what was already happening.

I always have this time issue in the morning. I want to eat a healthy breakfast, but I don't have time to produce one. I was watching a couple on YouTube the other day cook Korean steamed eggs in the microwave. And wouldn't you know it, our very own Maangchi has a recipe posted for those eggs... So I had to try. This recipe was simple enough to put together. Two eggs, toasted sesame seeds, hot pepper flakes, third of a cup of water, tablespoon of soy sauce, into green onions chopped. Mix well and cook in the microwave for 5 minutes. I really enjoyed this, and it was easy to make. I do believe for my microwave the next time I do this recipe I might try 4 minutes, pull the dish out of the microwave, and see how the eggs are. By the texture of them on the top, I actually think that they were probably cooked a minute earlier and could have stopped right there.