Broccoli Stir Fry

A shout out to Melissa and Marcus of My Whole Food Life! We tried their Easy Broccoli Stir Fry recipe and chalked it down as a winner. Here is how we managed to screw it up.

For starters we prepared a pot of rice and chopped up 3 carrots, 2 heads of broccoli, 2 handfuls of snow peas, 2 garlic cloves, 4 green onions, and searched in the cupboards for a couple handfuls of edamame beans and sesame oil.

Next we prepared a peanut sauce by combining roughly 1/2 cup of natural peanut butter (just peanuts), a knob of ginger which we grated, 1 Tbsp of soy sauce, and the juice of 1 orange and 1 lime.

About 10 minutes prior to the rice being done we heated some of the sesame oil in a pan and then gently fried up the veggies all at once, shy of the green onions. By continuously nibbling we decided on a extraction point of perfect crunchy softness, added the sauce, served it on rice and garnished it all with the green onions.

Hmmmmm ... belly-tickling goodness!!

Sirloin and Snow Pea Stirfry

This got to be the easiest meal we have cobbled together yet. We found the recipe in The Runner's  World Cookbook. And it was tasty. 

We put a pot of water on the stove and waited for it to boil.

10 minutes before dinner time we tossed into the water a package of brown rice noodles (made out of brown rice and water) with some salt.

In a pan we heated a couple gluggs of sunflower oil and then fried up about a pound of sirloin beef, thinly sliced.

After just a couple of minutes we added about a half pound of snow peas for another few minutes.

Then we added a small can of water chestnuts, sliced, and about a half cup of Thai peanut sauce (We found an organic one. Technically processed, but not half bad.)

We added the pasta.

The picture doesn't do it justice. It was yummy.