Reply #21: what I've been doing lately [View All]

I've been doing a lot of wok cooking. I call it stir fry, but really it's mostly steaming.

Since I cook for just me, I make a normal rice recipe and it will serve for four meals (1/2 C per).

Then, I buy a bunch of veggies, chop them up, and put them in plastic dishes. Also tofu, which I don't use every time, but use often.

Finally, when I am ready to make dinner, I pick 2-4 different of the chopped up veggies and throw them in the wok, with a bit of water. Steam 5-9 minutes, depending on the veggie (brocoli takes longer than peppers) pour a little chinese sauce over it when it's done steaming and put it all over the rice (reheated in the microwave for 1 minute.)

Time to go from "I'm hungry" to "yum, what a good cook I am" is about 10 minutes.

The different veggies give different flavoir, and the different sauces vary it even more; so even though in one sense, it's the same thing all the time, it's very different tasting from one day to the next.