Everyday Meals

Just some pics of recent everyday home made meals...

Brad's fried rice

Ingredients:

Brown rice

Any veggies you have on hand, chopped up (he usually uses napa cabbage, leek, onion, de-seeded shishito peppers, red bell pepper)

Thinly sliced beef or pork

Dash of Mirin

Soy sauce to taste

Pinch of sugar

1 egg

Red ginger slices to garnish

Shredded nori to garnish

This is my fake clay pot everyday meal. I guess I should be making this in a clay pot to be authentic, but I don't have one so I just do it in a regular stainless steel pot. The ingredients vary from day to day but include:

Ingredients

daikon

carrot

onion

leek

lotus root

potato

napa cabbage

ginger

garlic

Thinly sliced beef or pork

1 cap full of mirin

1 cap full of soy sauce

1 tsp miso

I put an inch of water in the pot and throw all of the ingredients in except for the meat and the miso. Then I let it boil on the stove top. You can simmer for hours, but I usually get impatient after about 15-30 minutes. Then I add the meat and let cook for a few minutes. Then I add the miso at the very end. This is because miso has good bacteria in it (like the bacteria in yogurt) that you don't want to kill in the cooking process.