A recent trip to a Chinese restaurant, where I enjoyed this dish as part of a combination meal for three, led me to make my own version of beef and mushroom chop suey. It was tasty in the restaurant but the pieces of beef were few and far between. The dish was mostly bean sprouts. My version was much more generous on the beef front with about half
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I get my ideas/recipes from 'only the best' people.
Like this beef chow fun (beef and rice noodles) which came from the blog, "The Frugal Hausfrau". I followed the recipe exactly and didn't have to make any substitutions because I HAD all the ingredients. (So proud of my pantry.)
Cooking for one means you ALWAYS have odds and end of leftovers from recipes you've made to deal with. Often they're perishable and I hate to throw things away because they've spoiled. In this case, it was bean sprouts from making Pad Thai. And white button mushrooms.
I wasn't going to bother posting this recipe, as I seem to have lost a lot of enthusiasm for posting in general, these days. However, it was a tasty soup and, I wanted to write up the recipe, so I could add it to my archives.