Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Lard nar

When I was awoken to create food, I decided I'd be nice and make something tim had wanted the other day, but could not get:

Fried Noodle in Creamy Sauce (Lard Nar)

Ingredients
  • 2 cup rice noodles (soaked in water)
  • 1 1/2 cup broccoli sliced
  • 3-4 shiitake mushroom (soaked over night)
  • 1 tablespoon minced garlic
  • 1 tablespoon oyster sauce
  • 1 tablespoon fish sauce
  • 1 tablespoon sugar
  • 1 tablespoon cornstarch with 1/4 cup water
  • 2 tablespoons cooking oil

Cook'em!!
  • In frying pan, heat oil and brown garlic.
  • Add noodles, stir well for 3 minutes.
  • Place on serving plate. Heat remaining oil, add beef, broccoli and shiitake mushrooms.
  • Stir until no pink in beef.
  • Add water and bring to boil. (about 1/2 cup water)
  • Add oyster sauce, fish sauce and sugar.
  • Add cornstarch and stir until thicken.
  • Spoon over the noodle.
  • Serve with a slice of lemon will be good.
  • Enjoy it!

By: Jew


I couldn't fry the rice noodles correctly still (I either need a lot more heat or need to make a lot less noodles), and since I used too many noodles, I did not have enough sauce; However, it did turn out tasty. I served everything in the bowls my aunt gave me oh so long ago (when I went to college).

Also, the recipe does not mention beef, despite calling for you to cook it. I used an almost-half-pound bottom round steak, sliced thin across the grain (with cheap meat [$1.35], this is more important than how you cook it as you want as small of tissue fiber as possible; this way, even if it's rubber, it will still be edible). Other substitutions I made were Tapioca Starch for Cornstarch; Peanut Oil as cooking oil; and I did not have any mushrooms.

I also made ramen noodle soup in a style close to the Dork Tower comic featuring Iron Chef: Ramen.

I really missed cooking, and I wish I had willing company more often. I suppose I could try cooking for friends/etc and have everyone throw in 5 bucks. But I don't know many people around Evergreen Park. A shame really.

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