Stir-fried kale with marinated tofu and egg-fried rice. AmSam style. Totally non-authentic.
By the time decided what we were going to eat the shops were shut. Rubbish Sunday shopping. Is it like this in other countries?! So Dr W headed off to McColls for rice/noodles and came back with Uncle Ben's boil in the bag rice. I am uncomfortable about admitting to the use of BITB rice. It's just not right.
The rice was boiled. In it's bag. Hm. Scrambled an egg, added the cooked rice and chopped fresh tomato (Ching told me to). It should have been finished with spring onions, soy sauce and sesame oil. But, due to bad planning and lack of supermarkets, in my case onion, soy and toasted sesame seeds. Not quite the same.The kale was stir fried with ginger, garlic, chilli (slightly too much. hah. hot.) and soy sauce with, as requested by Dr W, matchstick carrots.The tofu was fried until coloured and slightly crispy.
A bit of of a mish-mash but good. Except the tofu which tasted like a health food shop. I will marinate my own in future.
Sunday shopping in the two cities that I've properly lived in:
ReplyDeleteSingapore - Shopping and eating are "favourite national past-times" so shops never shut early. Not even on Sundays.
Sydney - When I first visited on a holiday more than a decade ago, I was shocked by how early shops shut! Having come from Singapore. It's much better now. But still not as good as back home.
Want to move? Tee hee hee. xx
I've been making curries with kale and chickpeas for a couple of years -- the chickpeas are robust enough that they don't disappear amongst the kale, but they still soak up the flavours of the sauce adequately. Indeed, seeing the post prompted me that I'd not done so for a while, and the resulting curry was pretty good.
ReplyDelete(I should note that my idea of a reasonable curry would probably be considered inedibly hot by most people, so YMMV.)
atsampson - YMMV?! I had to look that up! l33t. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=YMMV
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