Cool Recipes images
A few nice recipes images I found:
Pulled pork goodness
Image by j.lee43
For the full recipe, visit my blog: jlee43.wordpress.com/2012/05/02/recipe-pulled-pork-goodness/
Garlic and Galangal Beef Tips and Mashed Potatoes with Sesame Kale
Image by lyricsboy
Based largely on Beckzilla‘s Garlic Mashed Potatoes topped with Sesame Kale, I made this for dinner tonight. Here’s how:
While boiling the diced potato, I sautéed the kale in olive oil and sesame oil. Once the kale had mostly finished cooking, I added soy sauce and one clove of garlic and stirred those for a few seconds more. This was then removed to the plate, for future eating.
I then drained the potatoes and added a bit more olive oil to the wok with equal parts minced garlic and galangal, stir frying those until fragrant. Then came the beef tips which were sautéed until cooked through. I removed those to the plate with tongs, leaving the seasoning and juice in the wok for the potatoes.
Then the potatoes were stir-fried a bit and mixed with the spices and juice in the wok. Once they had soaked up everything, I put them in a bowl and added enough milk to make them have a nice consistency as I mashed them coarsely with the back of a slotted spoon.
After I put the potatoes on the plate, I took the picture you see here! So easy! I would say the start-to-finish cooking time was no more than 45 minutes, so pretty quick too!
Lessons Learned:
The kale acted like a sponge for flavor with all of its wrinkles. I would probably use a little less soy sauce if I were preparing this again.
Galangal (an Indonesian native of the ginger family, also known as Laos in Indonesia and Ka in Thailand) looks like a large and lightly colored ginger, with similar texture. The flavor, however, is more delicate and less spicy than its cousin. It made the potatoes have a very nice subtle flavor.
Altogether, the overly-seasoned kale blended well with the beef, which I didn’t use much flavoring on. I believe I also swirled the potatoes into the kale’s leftover juice toward the end.
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