I love Chinese food. Particularly Mongolian beef, chow meins, fried rice, BBQ beef/pork/chicken, etc. Problem is, ordering take-out gets kind of expensive. So I’ve tried making my own noodles and beef and stuff, and over time I came up with a basic concept for the meat/vegie portion.

It’s essentially this: stir fry together a pound of beef cut into thin slices, some jalepenos, some garlic, a little Bernstein’s Italian dressing and some of my homemade teriyaki sauce. The jalepenos are important - red pepper has a very different flavor, in my opinion.
For the vegie part, I use either bean sprouts or some kind of cabbage (shredded/sliced), cooking them till they’re largely wilted but still have a bit of texture/crunchiness. Then I mix the two things together, along with a lot of sliced green onions for a few minutes. Then I boil a package (sometimes 1.5 packages…) of very thin chinese noodles, drain, and mix them up with the beef/vegie mixture. It’s like my own Mongolian beef, or something. I could eat it all day. And yes, it’s cheaper than buying take-out, cause that pound of beef plus a ton of noodles makes a whole lot of stir fry. You can also not use noodles and just serve the meat/veggie mix over rice or something.

Here’s some old pics - back when I was using red pepper. Using jalepenos instead is a more recent development, but it looks essentially the same, just without red flecks of pepper. :P

With bean sprouts but without noodles:

With noodles:

(P.S. I was originally going to blog about my recent and amusing attempt at cooking some Chinese BBQ pork, but those photos are still in my camera, and I’m lazy, so…it’s about the noodles again)