My Tale of Asian Woe – grab a cup of coffee, tea, or wine or just scroll on thru this diatribe…..it was a dark and stormy night…no, get back on track, Woman!
I did not want to cook last night, so we scrolled thru local Asian restaurants that delivered (our old one evidently has closed In the last 3 years since we’ve ordered) and came up with a choice and went with their #4 –
No. 4 $11.99
BBQ Pork
Mongolian Beef**
Sweet & Sour Chicken
Pork Fried Rice
Only to learn there is a $20.00 minimum…so o.k. make it 2 #4s. Everything arrived and as we got into the Mongolian Beef (which I normally love!) – all I could taste was raw onions. Not a speck of stir-fry on them at all. Completely overpowered the entire dish. The rest of the dinner wasn’t too bad, but we already had a bad taste in our mouths, so to speak, so didn’t eat much of the one dinner we wanted to split in the first place.
Now, here we are stuck with all these leftovers PLUS a whole ‘nother #4 to get thru.
This morning I nicely pkg’d up all the different elements plus did a nice caramelization on those darn onions. I decided to keep track of all the goodies I can make with all of this… and to start it off – of course PIZZA!! Ya’all knew this was coming, right?
To start playing with the ingredients for this pizza, I made a sauce to brush on the pizza to start us off – 2 T. orange marmalade + 1 tsp. Sambal Olek (chili sauce). I’ll tell you I could have stopped right there. This sauce is so good adding just a hint of sweetness plus heat and I’m thinking it can be used in so many ways. The pizza itself was very simple - the orange/sambal olek sauce, Mozz/Swiss cheese, Mongolian beef and the ‘cooked’ onions. One of the best pizzas I’ve made.
So, one dish down and how many to go – I still have lots of Mongolian beef and onions, BBQ pork, Pork fried rice and Sweet & Sour Chicken.
To be continued…………………
Piddle, I've sent an S.O.S. to Tony - why the pictures are so big again.............
I did not want to cook last night, so we scrolled thru local Asian restaurants that delivered (our old one evidently has closed In the last 3 years since we’ve ordered) and came up with a choice and went with their #4 –
No. 4 $11.99
BBQ Pork
Mongolian Beef**
Sweet & Sour Chicken
Pork Fried Rice
Only to learn there is a $20.00 minimum…so o.k. make it 2 #4s. Everything arrived and as we got into the Mongolian Beef (which I normally love!) – all I could taste was raw onions. Not a speck of stir-fry on them at all. Completely overpowered the entire dish. The rest of the dinner wasn’t too bad, but we already had a bad taste in our mouths, so to speak, so didn’t eat much of the one dinner we wanted to split in the first place.
Now, here we are stuck with all these leftovers PLUS a whole ‘nother #4 to get thru.
This morning I nicely pkg’d up all the different elements plus did a nice caramelization on those darn onions. I decided to keep track of all the goodies I can make with all of this… and to start it off – of course PIZZA!! Ya’all knew this was coming, right?
To start playing with the ingredients for this pizza, I made a sauce to brush on the pizza to start us off – 2 T. orange marmalade + 1 tsp. Sambal Olek (chili sauce). I’ll tell you I could have stopped right there. This sauce is so good adding just a hint of sweetness plus heat and I’m thinking it can be used in so many ways. The pizza itself was very simple - the orange/sambal olek sauce, Mozz/Swiss cheese, Mongolian beef and the ‘cooked’ onions. One of the best pizzas I’ve made.
So, one dish down and how many to go – I still have lots of Mongolian beef and onions, BBQ pork, Pork fried rice and Sweet & Sour Chicken.
To be continued…………………
Piddle, I've sent an S.O.S. to Tony - why the pictures are so big again.............
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