As close as I can get to an Irish meal to celebrate the occasion.

Corned beef brisket, colcannon and carrots.

I forgot to buy any beer but a nice pint glass of an Irish beer (is Harp beer good?) would be a nice accompaniment, I think. Dessert will be a slice of cran-apple pie though a piece of I rish "Brick" cake with some custard sauce might be ( Read more... )

I've made a half-hearted version of beef bulgogi in the past but this time, I made it as authentically as I could. I bought a nice piece of sirloin steak, par froze it and cut it as thinly as possible. I also bought an Asian pear. And watched several videos before I chose the one which produced this dish.


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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.

So I made mushroom egg foo young.


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ETA: Compare these to the 'classic' green onion/scallion pancakes here.

As a resource, YouTube is amazing. (And a huge way to fritter away a lot of free time ... but that's something we each have to deal with in our own way.)

Recently, I ran across an intriguingly titled video, "Never Ever Throw Away Your Sourdough Starter!" on Brothers Green ( Read more... )