It's pouring outside. Dominoes.com won't let me order and calling the store gives me a busy signal. I am starving and there are some seriously random items in this house. Check out what I did.
Sausage & Rice
cool those things go together so let's start with that
I'm browning the sausage looking at the fact that the only vegetable in the house right now is baby carrots. Throw the baby carrots in.
Sausage, rice and baby carrots leaves a lot to be desired for the palette.
What can I do to amp up the flavor? I have a little container of condiments like Ketchup, Soy Sauce... etc. Add soy sauce...naaaah
Peanut Butter... this is where it gets interesting. A tablespoon of peanut butter and a little bit of water to thin it out. While the meat is browning the water will be reducing and towards the end of it's reduction the sugars in the peanut butter should glaze the sausage. My peanut butter is like candy though and I don't want candied sausage...
Vanilla extract, vanilla extract (very little) if mixed in while the peanut butter is still thin should neutralize some of the sugars and make it less sweet.
So now we have semi-sweet glazed sausage, carrots and rice. Surely I can do a little better than that. Back to the condiment container. Crushed Red Pepper. I wait til I add the rice, which involves adding a lot more water. While that water is simmering it's mixing some of the PB glaze from the sausage creating a very thin peanut sauce add in the crushed red pepper and we now have
Glazed Sausage and carrots over rice in a spicy sauce with a hint of peanuts. I'll be back when this is done and honestly tell you if this is awesome or puke. I will say that it smells awesome.
Sausage & Rice
cool those things go together so let's start with that
I'm browning the sausage looking at the fact that the only vegetable in the house right now is baby carrots. Throw the baby carrots in.
Sausage, rice and baby carrots leaves a lot to be desired for the palette.
What can I do to amp up the flavor? I have a little container of condiments like Ketchup, Soy Sauce... etc. Add soy sauce...naaaah
Peanut Butter... this is where it gets interesting. A tablespoon of peanut butter and a little bit of water to thin it out. While the meat is browning the water will be reducing and towards the end of it's reduction the sugars in the peanut butter should glaze the sausage. My peanut butter is like candy though and I don't want candied sausage...
Vanilla extract, vanilla extract (very little) if mixed in while the peanut butter is still thin should neutralize some of the sugars and make it less sweet.
So now we have semi-sweet glazed sausage, carrots and rice. Surely I can do a little better than that. Back to the condiment container. Crushed Red Pepper. I wait til I add the rice, which involves adding a lot more water. While that water is simmering it's mixing some of the PB glaze from the sausage creating a very thin peanut sauce add in the crushed red pepper and we now have
Glazed Sausage and carrots over rice in a spicy sauce with a hint of peanuts. I'll be back when this is done and honestly tell you if this is awesome or puke. I will say that it smells awesome.
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