When we lived in the U.S. I did stir-fries, pasta, and rice dishes using flank steak if I wanted beef.
I haven’t seen a cut that resembles flank steak here. I know that I can ask a butcher, if I can show a photo as to what cut it is, but, frankly, I no longer care.
I started using ground beef (or pork or chicken) and I’m perfectly happy with the results.
Besides, the the French steak available in the supermarkets for regular people tends to be tough.
We’re happy….
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I used linguine for this but any pasta would work – or just serve over rice.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 2 servings 1x
- Category: One Dish Dinners
- Method: Skillet
Ingredients
- 12oz (360gr) ground beef
- 1 onion, cut into quarters, then thinly sliced
- 1 rib celery, sliced
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 tbs fresh ginger, minced
- 1 small yellow pepper, chopped
- 3 medium carrots, thinly sliced
- 4oz (120gr) linguine
- 1 tbs olive oil
- 1 cup (8oz, 240ml) beef broth
- 1 tbs soy sauce
- 2 tbs sherry
- 1 tbs peanut butter
- 1 tbs cornstarch (Maizena)
Instructions
- Cook pasta according to package instructions.
- While pasta cooks:
- Prepare vegetables.
- Heat olive oil in large skillet over medium-high heat.
- Add onion, celery, and carrot to skillet; stir-fry for 2 minutes.
- Add garlic, ginger, pepper, and stir-fry another 3 minutes.
- Remove vegetables from skillet and set aside.
- Add beef, and fry, breaking it up as it browns.
- Return vegetables to pan.
- Add beef broth, peanut butter, and bring to a boil.
- Cover, reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes, or until vegetables are done to your liking.
- In a small bowl, combine sherry, soy sauce and cornstarch.
- Uncover skillet and stir in cornstarch mixture until thickened.
- When pasta is done, drain and add to skillet.
- Serve.
Notes
Skip the peanut butter if you prefer and add any other vegetable you have on hand if you like.
Substitute white wine, vermouth, or nothing for the sherry
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1/2 recipe
- Calories: 656
- Sugar: 10.7 g
- Sodium: 775.9 mg
- Fat: 17.7 g
- Saturated Fat: 4.6 g
- Trans Fat: 0.2 g
- Carbohydrates: 72.4 g
- Fiber: 6.7 g
- Protein: 50.9 g
- Cholesterol: 101.7 mg
Prefer pork? Pork & Broccoli Lo Mein
Hector is becoming…. not sure how to finish that.
2 weeks ago he only wanted to play with rocks. I’d throw a rock, he’d happily chase it, then bring it back to me in exchange for a treat.
Now, he ignores the rocks, will chase a tennis ball but refuses to come anywhere near me. He expects me to chase him (I don’t) and taunts me with the ball from a distance. I go inside.
He then gets a rock and follows me in.
He’s terrible on our morning walk, pulling me in every direction, better on the noon walk, and a perfect boy dog on our last walk of the day.
The next day he’s the opposite.
Last week he would sit, down, and stay like a proper dog. This week he sits, but think down means ‘jump up’ and stay means ‘chase your tail’.
I feel like I’m chasing my tail….
I love ground beef stir fries! Ground beef, the most versatile ‘cut’ you can buy. It does pretty much everything and is as tasty as you want to make it so how can you go wrong?
I bought a Starmark Pro-Training Dog Collar for Beau. It’s plastic instead of metal, it breaks away if he pulls too hard and comes with a separate nylon backup collar that he also wears at the same time just in case it does break away and it’s the only thing my wild man actually pays attention to when we walk. But I have to say, all the money I spent on the training sessions, which we had to do as a part of the adoption contract, are great for the trainer, not so much for me. He listens to the trainer like nobody’s business. Me? If he feels like it. He finally has ‘sit’ down pat. *sigh* But! We keep working on it. I know he can get it. It’s only been six months that he’s been here and he’s got almost two years to make up for. He’s in his puppy stage still at this point. There are days though…
I agree – they listen to the trainer but not their human. We make progress – then we lose progress. He just wants to play ALL the time. And he treats me like his favorite toy. We are slowly learning (me) and he will finally return the ball when I throw it – most of the time. We had to block his favorite jumping spot in order for him to do it tho. After having 2 big girls that almost trained themselves this is a learning experience for me, too. We’ll get there…. I hope. I don’t see any off leash work outside the fence for a few years, tho lol
I’m answering incognito as a test…. I signed up for an online training course – expensive but the 1st month is free. They promote only training with treats and to do indoor training before outdoor, and off-leash heeling before on-leash, and stopping pulling by standing still every time they do it, etc. All great ideas if one has all day every day to devote to training (in my opinion). I’m using some of their ideas along with some of the old-school methods I learned years ago. We’re making progress but it’s slow. I got a Martingale collar – it works a little lol.
OK – just hit post and got the same error. try again.
I couldn’t do the off leash first. I have a wild man on my hands as it is. I can’t imagine when we first started ever getting one result off leash. At almost two, he’s every bit as impossible as Hector right now. However, Beau weighs 80 pounds. And my wrists are degenerating. I’ll take any advantage I can get right now, like that collar. I do use a Martingale ordinarily, but the trainer is much better when my wrists are having a ‘scream at me’ day.
I’ve bookmarked that collar – I’m not giving up on just the Martingale yet as we seem to be making progress. Now if I could only predict door knocking on tv shows……