Salad Ingredients:
1 lb lean tender steak, grilled to taste and thinly sliced (medium rare or rare is traditional) – or use warm slices of leftover steak
1 medium red onion, thinly sliced
6 large leaves of lettuce, use just enough to provide a pretty bed for the rest of the salad
1 large cucumber, thinly sliced
1 cup tomatoes, cut into chunks
1/4 cup cilantro leaves, chopped Read More
Ingredients:
Meat:
1 lb flank steak, sliced with the grain into lengths and then crosswise into bite sized strips
Meat Marinade:
1/4 cup rice wine vinegar
1 T ginger
1 T low sodium soy sauce
fresh cracked black pepper to taste
2 t cornstarch
1 t sesame oil
1 t vegetable or peanut oil
Vegetables:
1 T garlic, minced
6 oz shiitake mushrooms, sliced in half if large
1 red bell pepper, sliced
1 cup carrot matchsticks
2 cups snow peas, sliced on diagonal
3 scallions, sliced
Stir Fry Sauce:
1 1/2 T chili garlic sauce
3 T Hoisin sauce
2 T rice wine vinegar
1-2 T grapeseed oil for wokking – or other high heat stir-fry oil Read More
whole sea bass
Ingredients:
Bamboo steamer, or other steamer basket
2 lettuce or cabbage leaves
1 whole fish per person
Salt
Pepper
1 T Ginger, peeled and julienned
1 Green onion, julienned
Shiitake mushrooms
Lime quarter
Optional: your favorite hot peppers Read More
Serves 6
Ingredients:
1 lb chicken breast, boneless, skinless
2 T soy sauce, low sodium
2 T sherry
2 t cornstarch
3 T peanut oil, divided use
2 t garlic, chopped
1 t ginger, chopped from fresh
1 pound cremini mushrooms, thickly sliced
6 oz snow peas, sliced on the diagonal
2 baby bok choy clusters, sliced into two inch lengths
8 oz bamboo shoots, sliced
8 oz water chestnuts, sliced
3 green onions, white and light green part only, sliced
1/2 cup chicken stock
2 T sherry
1 T plus 1 t soy sauce, low sodium
2 T oyster sauce
2 t sugar
2 t cornstarch Read More
Ingredients:
1 T peanut oil
8 cloves garlic, chopped
3 shallots, thinly sliced
2 pounds boneless chicken thighs, chopped into small pieces
4 kaffir lime leaves, fresh or dried
8 Thai chiles or 2 jalapenos, chopped and then pounded with mortar and pestle to open the fibers
1 T black soy sauce
1 T t oyster sauce
1 T fish sauce
1 1/2 cups fresh Thai basil
1/4 t ground white pepper Read More
Ingredients:
1/2 cup vegetable stock, low sodium
2 T soy sauce, low sodium
2 T sesame oil
1 T rice wine vinegar
1 T cornstarch
1 t honey Read More
Ingredients:
1 T high heat oil suitable for a wok
2 cups carrots, shredded
2 cups mushrooms, rinsed, patted dry, and sliced thickly
2 cups snow peas, sliced on the diagonal
1 T ginger, minced
1 T garlic, minced
4 T oyster sauce
1 t toasted sesame oil
2 t water Read More
Makes 1/2 cup
Ingredients:
2 T low sodium soy sauce
2 T olive oil
1 T red wine vinegar
3 T sweet chili sauce
1/4 t sesame oil Read More
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