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[food] in which A laughs at my cooking
A thing that keeps tripping me up with pad thai, right, is that it (a) contains a lot of different vegetables in the fashion that I make it, and (b) is best eaten immediately rather than cooked in bulk and reheated.
My usual instinct, when cooking, is to use A Reasonable Quantity of each vegetable in isolation. That is not an approach that works with this dish (in that the wok winds up overflowing and also there is more food than we can possibly eat in one sitting), so I'm currently working on talking myself down to preparing only a Ludicrously Small quantity of each individual vegetable with the end goal of not overcatering.
(This would work better if I didn't keepsabotaging myself compensating by adding More Types Of Vegetable, but I digress.)
So. Today's quandary: I had chopped up a very small quantity of broccoli, and wanted to steam it for a couple of minutes before actually chucking it in to stir-fry, but also I have a horror of generating Surplus Washing Up.
Ergo, I present: a very small quantity of broccoli, stacked into a wire mesh loose-leaf tea strainer, balanced on a tea spoon, in a cezve (Turkish coffee pot), in which I was warming up the "fish" (seaweed) sauce and the tamarind and the sugar.
The general consensus so far seems to be that this is indeed both sensible and funny, in response to which I mock-sulk at the whole boiling of you. <3
My usual instinct, when cooking, is to use A Reasonable Quantity of each vegetable in isolation. That is not an approach that works with this dish (in that the wok winds up overflowing and also there is more food than we can possibly eat in one sitting), so I'm currently working on talking myself down to preparing only a Ludicrously Small quantity of each individual vegetable with the end goal of not overcatering.
(This would work better if I didn't keep
So. Today's quandary: I had chopped up a very small quantity of broccoli, and wanted to steam it for a couple of minutes before actually chucking it in to stir-fry, but also I have a horror of generating Surplus Washing Up.
Ergo, I present: a very small quantity of broccoli, stacked into a wire mesh loose-leaf tea strainer, balanced on a tea spoon, in a cezve (Turkish coffee pot), in which I was warming up the "fish" (seaweed) sauce and the tamarind and the sugar.
The general consensus so far seems to be that this is indeed both sensible and funny, in response to which I mock-sulk at the whole boiling of you. <3
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I have the same problem with Too Much Vegetable Matter when making stir-fry or fried rice, even when accounting for shrinkage when they're cooked. I'm trying to train myself to think in terms of a hand-full of each rather than a bowl full of each, but at least the learning curve is tasty.
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