sofiaviolet: bell peppers: the only vegetable I will eat! (cooking)
Sofia Violet Emilie Blackthorne ([personal profile] sofiaviolet) wrote2013-07-17 07:36 pm

*sad trombone*

So, I frequently make stir-fry. Specifically, I make my favorite: Pepper Steak with Onion. While Mom was in town, she showed me how to make my own sauce (I was dependent on bottled stir-fry sauces and packets of sauce mix, and nothing was ever quite like what I get from Food Wall).

Her process includes marinating the meat in soy sauce and rice vinegar. So last night I dutifully cut up my beef, mixed equal parts soy sauce and rice vinegar in a bowl, covered it, and stuck it in the fridge. And then between housework and a sudden desire to go to the grocery store, I didn't actually cook it last night.

So tonight I drained my marinade, made my stir-fry, cooked some rice, sat down to eat...

IDK if it was the proportions, the sheer volume of marinade (I actualfax covered the meat in liquid), or the fact that I left it marinating for ~24 hours, but congratulations, self! I have just invented SOUR Pepper Steak with Onion. Which would have been great if I liked sour.

(The bell peppers turned out fine though. And the rice. I have never disastrously fucked up a pot of rice.)
elaineofshalott: Eric Carle's drawing of the Very Hungry Caterpillar, from the children's book of same name. (very hungry caterpillar)

[personal profile] elaineofshalott 2013-07-18 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Add honey and have sweet & sour pepper steak with onion?