Good Eating Monday: How to Stir Fry
Welcome to the last week of March! Today's good eating topic is some how-to's on stir-frying. I had a Japanese room-mate, while in college many years ago, who taught me that stir-frying has an specific order as to what you put in the pan first, second and so on. In general, you can use a wok or an electric skillet or a regular skillet. I use my largest iron skillet. If you were cooking a large quantity of stir-fry, a deep wok might be better. Next, you want to pre-cut everything you're planning on stir-frying into bite-size pieces. The original purpose of this bite-size format was for ease of eating with chop-sticks. But beauty is also very important in oriental cooking, so you want lots of bright colors and shapes in your stir-fry, so it's also pleasing to the eye. Now the order of cooking: I usually add a little olive oil & garlic to my pan and saute the garlic just enough to flavor the oil. First, the reall...