Hey gang,
Sorry for the HUUUUUUGE delay between posts, this whole life thing is busy busy. We certainly have cooked some delicious meals since the last post but unfortunately we don't have any documentation for said meals.
Today we were once again wondering what in the world we were going to rustle up and I had a hankering for some red meat as men sometimes do :P. Understanding that Nicole isn't a huge fan of plain old red meat on a plate beside some potatoes, I was looking for something she might like. At this point it should be mentioned that last night we were also stuck for something to cook and I ended up making us some chicken fried rice. As such, Chinese wasn't necessarily on the tip of my tongue but as I was iterating through the possible red meat meals, I thought ginger beef could be fun to make.
Passing this idea past Nicole I received much fanfare and so I started looking up recipes. My idea hit a bit of a brick wall upon seeing the ingredients lists for most ginger beef recipes, they were MASSIVE. More searching ended up revealing a recipe that we had most of the ingredients for and that I couldn't screw up too badly. We needed something to go on the side of the ginger beef and so I landed on beef and greens as that is my favorite Chinese dish. I got some odds and ends that we were missing from our handy dandy Safeway and went to work.
In the end it turned into the most friggin amazing Chinese food we have ever consumed. So, after tasting this marvelous creation, I decided to share it with you.
This is the ginger beef recipe: link.
We didn't change anything other than not using orange zest because, let's face it, F that.
For the beef and greens, I basically just made it up. Some broccoli, onion, celery and carrot, along with some of the extra beef I cut made a good mixture. The pièce de résistance was some of this magic mix: link.
