cooking question and PICSPAM

[cornerofmadness]

First the question, for all the cooks on my flist, how do you prepare thin, quick-cooking beef as for a stir fry or fajita. I always manage to ruin it. I'm pretty good in the kitchen but this one stymies me.

Take tonight's sukiyaki. I started with thin cut braising beef then pounded it even flatter. Being that broken down it should have been tender as heck. I fried it only for a moment then added it to the sukiyaki. I'm beginning to think part of the problem is the Asian (and hispanic) sauces. I think that my med. rare beef parboils in a blink of an eye or something. Cook time less than 3 minutes and tonights beef the cats couldn't chew.

And now ICE STORM 2009 PICSPAM

Roy’s footprints frozen into the snow

The Icy Hills of Home

Japanese Lantern in Ice

THIS is what my car was trapped in. Poor Yukio

On the Way to Jackson

Winter Fairyland

Pines

Breaking under the Ice

Dogwoods (Jackson library)

I think this one is beautiful SERIOUSLY. It's my favorite. It's almost art. If you only click on one...

Roy back after two days in the snow



















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Comments

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yes to cause more evil

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Yay..ish?

Godiva came up to three feet of me and then realized how close she was. Poor thing is skittish - I tossed some lunch meat to her and she bolted. :( I want her to be friendly! I like Siamese kitties.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

poor kitty

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

I'm starting to wish I could take her in, too - which, with the elds, is just a bad idea.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yeah

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

I'm still considering it, though...we think she's partially blind, which makes it worse.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

aw

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Which would make it harder to get her into a feral cat group, I'm sure. Maybe one of those feral cat barns...I need to do some research, I guess.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

probably

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

She didn't come nearly as close to me tonight as she did the other day, either. *siiigh*

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

aw

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

She talked, though. :)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

being siamese are you shocked

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Not really, no. Since all I seem to collect are Siamese or Siamese crosses when it comes to cats....

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

and whatever the hell HObbes was

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

His first vet swore he was a Siamese cross just on basis of his vocality. I never saw his mother and every sibling left was a different color tabby.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

he was talky nad just plain weird so yeah, he could hav ebeen

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

He was quite weird. I'll definitely go along with that.