In my continuing saga of scaring the non adventurous food eaters...
Today was the department Asian Food potluck. I am amused that to most folks that Asian means Chinese only. Best thing was the Vietnamese Quail Egg soup.
Me, I again freaked folks out with doing a variation of an Udon dish Udon Kare.
Ingredients (upped to feed a large group should feed 10) :
6 cups dashi (now in concentrated liquid form :) )
12 ounces beef (thin sliced, tenderized)
1 small onion
Green onions finely cut.
2 carrot
3 small potatoes
2 cube curry (S&B Medium Golden Japanese brand)
4 serving udon noodles (cooked)
1 chopped green onion
Roasted shredded Nuri (same kind that I use as the substitute for Oga oddly enough. ;P)
Directions:
1. Simmer the beef, onion, carrot and potato in the dashi in a covered sauce pan until the meat is cooked and the vegetables are tender, about 15 minutes.
2. Add the curry roux and stir until it thickens.
3. Place the cooked udon noodles in a bowl and pour the curry soup onto the noodles.
4. Garnish with green onions and nuri
Since the Asian grocery I went to had a freezer section I was *very* tempted to buy several half pints of interesting Japanese ice creams. ;P
Comments
I would hardly call that weird. Nothing in there that even the pickiest of the Colorado gang wouldn't at least try.
Posted by: Margie | May 8, 2008 7:57 PM
Potlucks...one of the few things I miss about working in Title Insurance. The Filipinos used to bring the best food. Some of it was weird (fish heads, etc), but it never tasted bad.
Posted by: Mary | May 9, 2008 12:40 AM
Nope, it is pretty much what kitten had at Domo's (I even tossed in a baby Bok Choi stalk 5 minutes before serving) and no lambs where killed in it's making.
Ysy! Mary commented. =D
Yeppers Mary, at the Flats one of the engineering departments was known as the International Brigade because the manager hated American Engineers so it was all foreigners, and our department had two Cajuns, a German, a filipino, a Vietnamese, and a Lebonese engineer, so pot lucks rocked when we had them. The best was the Filipino would bring in his version of eggroles fresh from being made with a hot chili sauce first thing in the morning....and they would be gone in minutes.
Nom nom nom... :)
Posted by: Boulder Dude | May 10, 2008 7:11 AM
D'oh!
The other department had a Russian, two Turks, 4 Indians (the one from Goa made the best Vindaloo I have ever had. :) ), A Columbian, two Argentinians, A Ukrainian, A Pole, and Isreali, and one South African.
Posted by: Boulder Dude | May 10, 2008 7:14 AM