Aristo! Aristo! A la lanterne!: No... Food... Left.... Behind.....

Thursday, January 16, 2025

No... Food... Left.... Behind.....

In the fridge, leftovers from creating yesterdays lasagna. Italian sausage and ground beef.

In the pantry, three new flavors I've never worked with before. Gochujang chili paste, Calabrian chili sauce, and Vietnamese fish sauce.

Korean BBQ, here we come.

Korean BBQ meatballs and sausage over rice with broccoli

All the big flavors are in the meatballs and BBQ sauce. The sausage I simply roasted, sliced up, and tossed into the sauce. The Basmati rice is plain rice. The only thing special I did to the broccoli was brine it for an hour, and drop on a pat of butter when I plated it.

The meatballs: Ground beef, Italian sausage (50/50), Ritz cracker crumbs, Gochujang, fresh garlic, fresh ginger, black pepper, and fish sauce. Make the meatballs and place on a sheet tray with the sausage. 375 degrees for 25 minutes.0

The BBQ sauce: Red wine, ketchup, rice wine vinegar, brown sugar, honey, fish sauce, soy sauce, Calabrian chili sauce, the juice from a large orange, fresh garlic, and fresh ginger. Brought together and cooked for a few minutes to drive off the alcohol and start the flavors marrying, and then poured over the meatballs and sausage. This I left to marinate for a few hours. Then it all went in a wide pan and on to the heat to reduce the sauce.

Not too sweet, not too spicy, not too much anything but LOTS of balanced flavor.

There were NO leftovers.

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Robert Heinlein

"Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect.

But there is no reward at all for doing what other people expect of you, and to do so is not merely difficult, but impossible. It is easier to deal with a footpad than it is with the leech who wants "just a few minutes of your time, please — this won't take long." Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few. If you allow yourself to fall into the vice of agreeing to such requests, they quickly snowball to the point where these parasites will use up 100 percent of your time — and squawk for more!
So learn to say No — and to be rude about it when necessary.
Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work, and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble away your life and leave none of it for you.

(This rule does not mean that you must not do a favor for a friend, or even a stranger. But let the choice be yours. Don't do it because it is "expected" of you.)"