sticky beef noodles with bok choy

Well this meal was actually cooked last week, which is a testament to how incredibly run off my feet I feel at the present, and my husband cooked it as well. He is a wonderful cook and the meal was delicious.

We have found though, that sometimes food, which is styled a certain way for photo’s isn’t really that easy to eat. So we had to modify the recipe instructions a little bit and next time I think we’ll modify it even more for easy eating. If you are able to see the picture of this particular dish on page 70 of DHM issue 50, you’ll see what I mean. The dish does look incredibly yummy, very aesthetically pleasing in the, hence we made it but actually trying to chomp down on half a bok choy is not really that easy and cutting up a beef steak while trying to avoid eviscerating the noodles is a bit of a nightmare. So next time the steak will be cut into strips and bok choy likewise distributed into bite size portions.

So for this recipe, one needs: soy sauce, tick; brown sugar, grated ginger and vegetable oil, all not a problem. Sirloin steak was not available in our freezer stock of beef cuts so we just used some rump steak. Udon noodles were also in short supply, we only had maggie noodles in stock. Which is what happens when every other type of noodle in the store costs twice the price we are willing to pay for it. Anyway we have found maggie noodles to be an adequate replacement for our stir-fry requirements. Onions and chilli were not a problem, however, I did not have roasted peanuts and no fresh coriander leaves but thanks so a very generous friend from Australia I did have dried coriander leaves, which work quite well as a substitute.

All in all I think we did exceptionally well with ratio of ingredients that we did have in comparison to what we were lacking and the dish turned out fantastically, it was incredibly tasty and I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a good stir-fry recipe. I even have a picture of it. This is a first for me and I’m not sure how we’ll go putting the photo on the page but we’ll give it a shot.