Chinese Hot-Pot!
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elfsStormy and I made Chinese Hot-Pot, also known as Shabu-Shabu. This is a simple dish: take a good hunk of steak, a good hunk of pork chop, and a hunk of chicken breast, slice them all up very thin, along with mushrooms, zucchinis, summer squashes, and broccoli. Stormy got to practice her knife skills. She's not very good with a knife, and it might take a nasty cut for me to finally convince her to keep her fingers safe. She kept splaying her fingers close to the knife.
The point of hot-pot is to let people cook these raw things in a deep pot of simmering broth. Slicing the meat to be less than ¼ of an inch thick lets it cook within a minute or so. This with a pair of sauces made with beef broth, mirin, soy sauce, and various herbs, one sweet and one salty, was the whole of the meal.
It was delicious. The family loves hot-pot, but it takes so long to eat and it's really a winter meal. Even in the early fall, it's too warm to fill the dining room with steam. And it takes forever to eat, so it's not something we can prepare on a night when someone has dance, or choir, or a D&D game, or a meeting, or Goddess only knows what else.
The point of hot-pot is to let people cook these raw things in a deep pot of simmering broth. Slicing the meat to be less than ¼ of an inch thick lets it cook within a minute or so. This with a pair of sauces made with beef broth, mirin, soy sauce, and various herbs, one sweet and one salty, was the whole of the meal.
It was delicious. The family loves hot-pot, but it takes so long to eat and it's really a winter meal. Even in the early fall, it's too warm to fill the dining room with steam. And it takes forever to eat, so it's not something we can prepare on a night when someone has dance, or choir, or a D&D game, or a meeting, or Goddess only knows what else.
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Date: 2011-09-13 05:52 am (UTC)before adding ingredients..
Date: 2011-09-13 07:44 am (UTC)The hot pot I've had, the broth was wonderful and herby and it was one of three tasty broths one could choose from. It was closer to chanko-nabe.