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Sunday, May 16, 2010

Pork and Vegetable Stir-Fry with Peanut Satai Sauce on Egg Noodles

Not part of the challenge (although there is a stir-fry coming up later on) but I was tempted at the store by a jar of peanut satai cooking sauce. It's got a zingy kick to it. I quite like it.

Here's tonight's feast!

I put roasted cashews and sesame seeds on top. Yum!

Pork and Vegetable Stir-Fry with Peanut Satai Sauce on Egg Noodles

Recipe #6 / Pgs 28-29 / Beef with Pea Pods

Now that I have a regular job, I felt less intimadated at buying a choicier grade of meat. I will usually go for the cheapest or on sale. But I was determined to follow the recipe and get the piece it called for.

What a difference GOOD meat makes! So tasty!

Also, I substituted half the water for the rice with beef broth. Nice and tasty too.
A definite success!

Beef with Pea Pods

Recipe #5 / Pgs 154-155 / Old-Fashioned Potato Salad

Not much to say about this, except that I put too much onion in it.
In fact, I think I should have alltogether omitted them.

I find that I'm not liking raw onions in things.

Old-Fashioned Potato Salad

Recipe #4 / Pgs 16-17 / Meat Loaf

Okay, I've been doing that meat loaf for a good while now, since I got the book a couple of yers ago.
But, fur accuracy's sake, I decided I would still do ALL the recipes in the book, even the ones I've done before. In fact, what better opportunity to improve myself!

So here is my meat loaf. I like it knid of sweet, so I made a few changes. I covered the bottom of the pan with brown sugar, which gets caramelized when the leaf bakes. Yum! And I covered it with honey-garlic BBQ sauce instead of ketchup. And left out the onions.

The picture came out blurry though. Sorry!