AERE6984@ryerson.ca (03/09/91)
In article <1991Mar06.142720.7151@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>, t-ericg@microsoft.UUCP (Eric GORR) says: >Hello. What I am looking for are some simple, quick, good recipes that >I can fix as someone who doesn't have a lot of time to cook. When I first moved out I didn't have a lot of time to cook (I was working during the day and going to night school). I used to make a lot of stir-fries. The easiest way to do this is to buy all you meats and vegetables on the weekend and chop them up as soon as you get home. Store everything in zip-loc bags. Freeze the meat. Now, when you get home at night, you can thaw out the meat (this takes minutes if you put the bag in the sink and run warm water over it), grab a handful of different vegetables and make a stir-fry. Here's a sample. BASIC STIR-FRY Pork tenderloin, sliced chopped onion chopped garlic chopped bok-choy (or napa, or lettuce, or cabbage, or spinach, etc.) chopped carrot snow peas (or green beans, or yellow beans, etc.) chopped broccoli chopped green pepper water chestnut OR ANY OTHER VEGETABLES YOU WANT oyster sauce (or teriyake sauce, or stirfry sauce, etc.) Heat some oil in a frying pan or wok. Fry up the garlic, onions, and pork. Remove from pan when almost cooked. Now fry up the vegetables, starting with the toughest (slowest cooking vegetables) and adding the faster cooking ones as you go along. When all the vegetables are done add the meat and some oyster sauce. Heat the whole mixture for a minute or two, then serve with rice or noodles. This is easy to make and tastes pretty good. You can play with the ingredients until you find the combinations that work best. The trick is to do all the chopping on the weekend. This saves you from having to do it when you get home and are tired. With a little practice you can have a hot meal in as little as 20 minutes. Hope this helps, Mikhael Bornstein