How to decide the dishes for tonight's dinner 12/05/08

I told you, I have two international graduate school students at my home.
Do you know how much they pay for me for each meal.

Dinner $6, Lunch $3, that all which I am asking for them. You know most college students don't have money.

And think about their parent, I can't charge too much. So I can't buy too expensive ingredients for meals.

Every day, I check inside my fridge, then I decide which dish I should cook for lunch and dinner.

So this blog's recipe will be very reasonable cost for ingredients.

Sometime I make big party for them, then you will see a lot of sushi menu.

Today I saw beautiful nappa and daikon in my fridge, I have to finish these ingrdients soon.

Tonight, I made "spicy ground beef with sunny lettuce hand roll", "Nappa miso soup", "Stir fried daikon skin with kelp".

When you cook turnip, daikon, carrot, don't throw away the skin part. you save it because the skin have nutritious. I always save about 7lb (thin cut) and cook by stir fry~ Add sesame oil + Daikon +1 Tbsp soy sauce+ 1 Tbsp sugar (mirin)+1 tsp dashi powder~ As finishing, add some seasoned kelp "Tsukudani" ( if you have).

this dish is so good with brown rice.

"Spicy ground beef with sunny lettuce hand roll"

Ingredients: 12oz Ground beef, 1knob Ginger(grated), 1clove Garlic (fine), Mix well before cook--{1Tbsp white miso paste, 1~2 Tbsp Tobanjyan (hot pepper paste), 1 Tbsp Soy sauce, 1~2 Tbsp sugar, 2 Tbsp cooking Sake}, 1 Tbsp oil

Direction: a frying pan+ oil+ ginger, garlic~ aroma~ Add beef~ stir fry~ briefly browned~ add all mixed seasoning~ stir fry~ OK, done.

Please taste it, my recipe is approximate which come from my sense and experience, so you can adjust your favorite way. Put some rice and spicy beef on a leaf of lettuce and wrap it and bite!

See you tomorrow.

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