Ginger beef and kale

I was going to title this the "Reluctant Vegetarian." Someone already snagged it. Nice pictures, but it has an obnoxious lack of respect for the capital letter. Plus, I'm just a little too reluctant to keep the meat off the page. Speaking of which, it's time to make Martha Stewart's ginger beef and kale recipe.


Let's see - Ingredients:

Right off the bat I can tell you that I'm not getting out of my chair to see if my paprika is "smoked" or not. I did take a look at this food discussion website, and it looks like many agree it is worth the effort to go get smoked paprika.


Filet mignon will be substituted with my leftover rib roast meat.

Bagel break... This is a slightly over-toasted bagel from Market of Choice, where bagels are light and fluffy and made with tasty cheese. There are a couple of bagel shops in town, but at one of them the bagels continue getting smaller and smaller. Actually, I shouldn't say that. Otherwise you'll think I'm stupid for patronizing the same bagel shop over and over as their bagels get smaller and smaller. What really happened is their location is all the way across town, and I had a bagel there that was small.

Anyway, here is my recipe for goat cheese and chive goat cheese (what you see on the bagel):

Get fresh chives. Get a log of goat cheese from Costco unless you have a lot of money to spend on cheese, in which case, get your goat cheese according to your own taste. I find the Costco goat cheese is big and almost half the price, if I remember correctly. Decide how much chive you like in your cheese, put all that in the food processor and hit ON. When it's blended, take it out and spread it on stuff. You can use a fork and a bowl, chopping the chives thin, but I don't have the patience for that now that I have this awesome food processor.

Okay. Looks like I've got everything. Notice my spiffy Microplane shredder. The recipe calls for a finely shredded onion, so I'm going to try it with this until I get bored and toss it in the food processor.

 

Oops. I forgot to include the broth in the picture. To the top left you see the pepper grinder. Absent a knife, a pan, and a box grater, this is what I made the dish with. I forgot to put the salt in, and the ginger was reticent to be finely grated, but all in all it went well. Much pomp and circumstance for such a simple meal. I can see how sliced filet mignon (not previously cooked) might do better. Serve with rice for a more rounded meal.

Now for a nice coffee break and to finish the rest of The Last Vampyre - Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Brett - the best on-screen Sherlock Holmes ever.