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Cooking up a great Sunday meal with flank steak and lots of vegetables. I was pleasantly surprised at the outcome of this meal. I suspected it to have lots of strange flavors with to much ginger by looking at the ingredients, but it wasn't. The stir-fry sauce was mild but still had a wonderful Chinese flavor of sesame ginger, and soy sauce. Very authentic!
Health Tip:
Your dinner plate should have more vegetables then carbohydrates and protein.
I didn't have six gloves of garlic. These were really big gloves and the flavor of garlic was perfect. The recipe also called for fresh ginger. We are not huge ginger fans in our house hold so I resorted to ground ginger. (1tsp ground ginger for 1 tbsp fresh ginger) One more thing...,sorry for not following the recipe exactly, I didn't use the alcohol it called for. We are not alcohol drinkers and I did't feel like purchasing a whole bottle for a couple teaspoons in a recipe. I think that the alcohol probably was supposed to bring out the flavor more which would of been nice.
Clearly, I didn't read the recipe properly and used olive oil instead of Canola oil. As I was cooking the thought occurred to me that olive oil is healthier to use the canola oil....wasn't sure so if your curious of the health tips on both click HERE.
Served over a warm bed of rice. I can proudly say that my whole family enjoyed dinner that night. Yes, even my two and three year old. I must say that when this happens it is truly and huge success. :)
Thanks for hosting Amanda. You can find this recipe by clicking HERE.
Glad your fam liked it too - it's always great when the kids will eat something like this!
ReplyDeleteGlad you guys liked it, thanks for cooking with me this week!
ReplyDeleteNice new Blog. That looks really good and what a bonus
ReplyDeletethat the kids liked it too!
Jen! It looks fantastic! Is this cookbook as big as the baking one? I use olive oil for almost everything that calls for oil. Minus baking. It just has a bolder flavor I find.
ReplyDeleteYes,this book is the same size. I used olive oil for all my cooking to but I might change now according to the recipe and to obtain the different health benefits from both oils.
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