Yes, Pandora is absolutely fucked. Next up: corporations charging publishers for “the right” to fill their magazine pages with advertisements.
This is awful. Pandora rules, and the music industry needs to wake the fuck up.
This week’s Asian cooking project was Thai curry with chicken. It was a lot easier than I realized. Just get a jar of curry paste and some coconut milk. Combine those and heat them up, add your chicken, then finish with bamboo shoots or whatever vegetables you wish to use. Be sure to serve this with jasmine rice, which compliments the dish much better than the regular long grain stuff.
This week’s Chinese cooking experiment was broccoli beef. It was a complete success. The dish is very simple to make and very delicious to eat.
The major lesson learned this week was that every ingredient counts. I didn’t have everything on hand and considered hacking something together, but I decided to man up and buy everything so I’d have it on hand in the future. It was worth it. The sesame oil (one of the things I didn’t have) makes a huge difference. It may seem insignificant, but it’s very potent and very tasty.
SAUCE
1 tsp fish sauce
3 tbsp oyster sauce
1 tsp sesame oil
MARINADE
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 tsp cornstarch
1 tbsp cooking wine
dash black pepper
VEGETABLES
2-3 cloves garlic
2-3 heads broccoli
DIRECTIONS
Use flank steak. Cut against the grain into bite size strips. Marinate the beef for 15+ minutes.
Cut the vegetables. Fry the garlic until aromatic. Add the beef and cook until tender.
Add the broccoli and sauce. Cook until broccoli is slightly tender, then serve over rice.
Beer of the week: Great White from Lost Coast Brewery. It’s pretty tasty. Crisp, refreshing, and simple. The aroma and flavors are not very complex, which makes this a good beer to have with food, since it will complement instead of overwhelm. It pairs especially well with spicy food.