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    Stir fry

    Some firsts for me last night that worked well:

    1. I used an 18oz flatiron steak cut across the grain in 3/8" wide strips and then marinated for about an hour in Soy, Oyster, and Hoisin sauces with chopped garlic. That was both tender and very flavorful. I will use that again as well as for fajitas.

    2. I was forced to use some frozen veggies and to reduce the water I put them into a colander about 2 hours ahead of time to drain as much water off as possible---it worked but fresh veggies would have been better.

    3. I "integrated" cooked thin Amish egg noodles at the end of cooking. There were no racial problems
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    Home made Beef Chow Mein is what you made. Very tasty
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    Not really, the similarity to Chow Mein was primarily the veggies and soy sauce, common to a host of Asian dishes.

    My real reason to post this was to share what I learned. I wasn't trying to duplicate any specific dish--if that had been the case I would have at least looked at a recipe. The flat iron steak was a cut I had never used before and I found it both economical and agreeable. Dewatering of the veggies worked better than anything I have tried in the past and is something I will surely do again.

    As for the noodles---the Amish noodles were only mentioned for fun
    Last edited by Dave Grubb; 03-23-2023 at 04:04 PM.
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    my Wok Chow Mein

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    "...share what I learned."
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    Which you and TG have done well. Cooking neophytes like me pay attention and read your posts (though we don't always comment).

    Thank you, my friends.

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    You're welcome

    I made a similar dish tonight with crab and shrimp (lent). I improved the draining process. About noon I put the frozen veggies into a strainer along with the water chestnuts and bamboo shoots and let them drain into a pan. I stirred them once during the afternoon. The strainer seemed to drain even better than the colander I used previously. I also used fresh snow peas. The result was excellent---no excess liquid at all in the pan.
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
    “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis

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