Mom’s cooking #4 – Beef porridge
– Guest post by Mom, loosely translated by me –
There are mornings, even on weekends, when I wake up feeling like a stone (Mai: she means it figuratively, the supermodel BMI runs in our family 😉) and still have to get out of bed because of the mountain of work waiting. Not work at work, but work around the house. Laundry, cleaning the bathrooms, tidying the bedrooms, grocery, and especially cooking even when I have no appetite. When those mornings happen, I think of something easy to make and easy to eat. Naturally, porridge comes to mind. My daughter doesn’t like porridge, but when she’s not home I can prepare it for her dad and me for lunch and maybe dinner, too. I like porridge: mung bean porridge, fish porridge, chicken porridge, pork porridge… and beef porridge for today.
Beef Porridge (serving 3)
– 1 cup cooked rice
– 2 lb pork bone
– 1 lb ground beef
– 8 oz champignon mushroom
– 1/2 sweet onion, minced
– 1 tbs minced garlic
– salt and sugar to taste (e.g., 1/2 tsp salt, 1 tsp sugar)
– a pinch of ground black pepper
– green onion and coriander
– 3 eggs
Simmer the pork bones to make stock, remove all the white floating foam. Use cooked rice instead of uncooked rice so that the porridge is soft but the grains don’t disintegrate, and the bottom layer doesn’t get sticky and burnt.
Season the beef with garlic, onion, salt, sugar and black pepper. Scoop spoonfuls of meat into the boiling stock. When the stock boils again, add rice. Simmer on low heat for 30 minutes. Do NOT stir. Once the porridge becomes really mushy, add mushroom. In a bowl, whisk up the eggs with chopsticks and dribble it into the boiling stock. Re-season if necessary before turning off the heat.
Garnish with green onion and coriander. Serve hot.
Beef porridge is easy to make (Mai: in my book anything with more than 3 ingredients ain’t no breezy game), not elaborate but healthy for the old and young, strong and sick. I feel lighter after I eat a bowl. How can our mind weigh down anymore when our body is elevated by something so hearty and warm?
I needed to create you a very little remark so as to thank you very much over again for your great tactics you’ve shown on this page. This is really tremendously open-handed of you to grant publicly what many people could possibly have distributed for an e book in making some profit for themselves, even more so since you could have done it in the event you considered necessary. These techniques additionally served to be the great way to realize that someone else have similar dreams really like my own to understand a little more with regard to this problem. I’m certain there are numerous more fun opportunities in the future for many who read through your blog post.
1Whats up very nice website!! Guy .. Excellent .. Superb .. I’ll bookmark your blog and take the feeds additionallyKI am happy to seek out numerous helpful info right here within the put up, we want work out extra techniques on this regard, thank you for sharing. . . . . .
2Real informative and wonderful complex body part of content material, now that’s user genial (:.
3I have been browsing online greater than three hours lately, but I never discovered any fascinating article like yours. It’s pretty worth enough for me. Personally, if all webmasters and bloggers made just right content as you probably did, the net might be much more helpful than ever before. “Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people.” by Heinrich Heine.
4I like this blog very much, Its a really nice post to read and get information.
5Its good as your other articles : D, appreciate it for putting up. “It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong.” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
6I conceive this website has got some really great info for everyone :D.
7Lovely site! I am loving it!! Will be back later to read some more. I am taking your feeds also
8I regard something really interesting about your blog so I saved to fav.
9I like this weblog very much so much fantastic information.
10This design is steller! You certainly know how to keep a reader amused. Between your wit and your videos, I was almost moved to start my own blog (well, almost…HaHa!) Great job. I really loved what you had to say, and more than that, how you presented it. Too cool!
11An fascinating discussion is worth comment. I believe that you should write more on this matter, it might not be a taboo subject but usually people are not sufficient to talk on such topics. To the next. Cheers
12