Saturday, April 23, 2011

The Mad Stirfry List

I love making a mad stirfry.  Here is the ultimate list, to be perfected over time:

For the sauce:
  • soy sauce or a substitute
  • white pepper
  • honey
  • lime juice
  • water
  • curry powder
  • black pepper
  • chile Coban
  • Maya-Ik hot sauce
  • other form of picante
  • chicken or beef stock/bullion/consomme
Proteinacious material:
  • tofu
  • thinly sliced beef, chicken, pork, squirrel, whatever.  Bits of some mammal or bird.
  • a coupla eggs
Once the wok is warm:
  • garlic
  • ginger
Vegetable matter:
  • broccoli
  • carrot
  • green beans
  • red or green bell pepper
  • green onion/shallots
  • water chestnuts 
  • baby corn or corn off the cob
Fungi:
  • button mushrooms (or whatever they call them these days.  Criminies?)
  • sliced up portobellos
Extras:
  • walnuts
  • cashews
  • pine nuts
  • bean sprouts
 **Fruitz:
  • pineapple slices
  • apple bits
Things I haven't tried but sound like they might be good:
  • dandelion greens
  • fiddleheads
  • guisquil
  • beets
  • sweet shelled peas (I tried mature shelled peas... mistake.)
  • fennel
  • snow peas
  • wild mushrooms
  • a dash of coconut milk, or bits of coconut
  • artichoke hearts
 To be served beside/upon:
  • white rice
  • brown rice
  • Thai rice noodles
  • mung bean noodles
  • **spaghetti squash spaghetti
  • your face
* Shellfish are not included in this list because I might die if I eat them. 
** Disclaimer: these items have also not yet been attempted.

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