Stormcrow's Hobby Farm

[U_Stormcrow]

Had half the breast of one of our big breasted bronzes for Turney day. 145* in the sous vide 3.5 hours. Crazy moist, could have been a bit more tender. Going to try 150* next time, same amount of time. We took the turkey about 18 weeks???

Anyhow, that breast had already made three meals for the wife and I, still had about a pound left, getting sick of turkey. Googled spicy pork and snow peas recipes, looked at a bunch of them then started throwing stuff in a hot pan - substituting 1# of cubed turkey breast for 1# of pork, of course. Worked marvelously.


Baby bok choy (chopped up four of them)
Snow peas (1 package - 8 oz?)
3 cloves garlic
2 carrots
1/4 Onion
1# cubed turkey
about 1# (prepared) flat thai rice noodles

Sauce was 5 Tbsp soy (low sodium, please!), 3 Tbsp Sweet Chili Sauce, 1 Tbsp Rice Wine Vinegar, 1 Tbsp Honey, 1 Tbsp Siracha.

some Sesame Oil for the pan.

Heat the pan w/ the sesame oil till fragrant on medium heat, turn to medium high, add the whites of the bok choy (about 3/8" slices) and the onion (slivered). Cook till the onions have softened. Add snow peas, turkey, thai noodles, garlic. Toss a few times to combine.

Add the sauce, turn the pan up almost all the way.
Keep tossing till heated thru.

Add the greens from the baby bok choy (rough chop) and the carrots (grated). Give a few more tosses to combine.

Kill the heat.

Wait about 3 min, toss once more, then serve.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

If the slight sourness bothers you, leave out the rice wine vinegar. If I was cooking just for me, I'd have cut out some of the soy and increased the siracha. My wife tells me to cut the rice vinegar next time and use more sweet chili sauce.

Basically, make it once, then adjust sauce to your liking. Unfortunately, you can't tell just by tasting the sauce - it needs the heat and the noodles, and everything else to balance it out.

Can serve with sliced scallion, crushed peanuts, or both. Or neither.

 

[Sally PB]

Well, dang! That sounds really good. Copying and saving in my recipe file.

 

[Sally PB]

Sweet Chili Sauce

Recommendation? Or was it home made?

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Recommendation? Or was it home made?

Using Ka-Me brand currently. Its "not terrible" of my available options, but the first ingredient is water - basically a slightly spicy "Duck Sauce". As in, fine for dipping, not great for cooking.

Next one to try is twice the price, and a smaller bottle. But the first ingredient is NOT water. Basically for cooking with, not a dipping sauce.

First though, I had to be certain my wife would eat it - no point buying things we can't eat together. Her palatte prefers a different sweet/sour/spicy/salty/umami balance than mine.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Joined us last evening.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

and sibling.

 

[NanaK]

and sibling.

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Such a sweet face.
Life goes on.

 

[Sally PB]

First though, I had to be certain my wife would eat it - no point buying things we can't eat together. Her palatte prefers a different sweet/sour/spicy/salty/umami balance than mine.

That's a constant problem here. Hubby likes his salsa to be a blowtorch setting, and I can't eat that. Separate salsas is not an issue, but my being GF has been, at times. I made a GF pizza crust that was declared "inedible," and he will not touch rice with a 10 foot fork.

I'm very grateful all I have is a sensitivity, and that I don't have celiac disease.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

That's a constant problem here. Hubby likes his salsa to be a blowtorch setting, and I can't eat that. Separate salsas is not an issue, but my being GF has been, at times. I made a GF pizza crust that was declared "inedible," and he will not touch rice with a 10 foot fork.

I'm very grateful all I have is a sensitivity, and that I don't have celiac disease.

I did a pair of the cauliflower crust pizzas with rices cauliflower, egg whites, lots of cheese. Topped the H__L out of it w/ strong flavors (black olives, red onion, feta, artichoke hearts), tasted fine.

Ate one 12" pizza by myself. 45 minutes later, I was hungry again.

Absent carbs and protein, I just can't seem to be not hungry.