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#1 Secret to Successful Stir-fry

Use any combination of fresh vegetables plus any protein you choose (chicken, shrimp, beef, tofu) to make a healthful, delicious stir-fry. Here I chose colorful peppers and red cabbage from the produce market, added carrots, celery, and leftover cooked chicken. The sauce is simply a quick whisked combo of soy sauce, freshly grated ginger and garlic, and 1/2 cup broth with a Tbsp. corn starch dissolved in it. I finish with a drizzle of sesame oil and chopped fresh cilantro before serving.

The secret to perfectly cooked stir-fry is not really a secret: Prepare all ingredients before preheating your wok or skillet. That’s it! Stir-fries cook quickly but require constant attention, so you can’t leave it to chop additional ingredients.

Try stir-frying. It’s a flavorful way to add vegetables to your diet. It’s also a great use-up for produce you have on hand that you don’t want to lose.

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February 28, 2014 · 9:43 am

January 6, 2014 · 8:27 am

Turkey Tetrazzini, anyone?

I hope you’ll check out this recipe posted by my author friend Nancy Cohen. It qualifies as both hasty and tasty! Thanks, Nancy!

http://nancyjcohen.wordpress.com/2014/01/05/turkey-tetrazzini/

PS You might want to follow her blog. She often posts about interesting restaurants, travel, food, and writing tips.

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December 31, 2013 · 8:13 am

2013 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for the Hasty Tasty Meals Kitchen. What a year. Happy new year, everyone!

Here’s an excerpt:

The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 8,400 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 3 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

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Start the New Year right!

Happy New Year! Here’s an encore post by request from readers. Enjoy!

HASTY TASTY MEALS BLOG

If you’re southern, chances are you have some kind of greens cooking up with some cut of pork, along with a pot of black-eye peas and a skillet of cornbread. Maybe your black-eye peas are part of a Hoppin’ John dish, which is mixed with spices and rice. It’s a New Year’s Day tradition and believed to bring good luck.

There are other traditions, worldwide, but I grew up with the southern version. I resisted it, too, until my adult years when I discovered the food tasted good together. Legumes and leafy green vegetables are healthful, so eating them on New Year’s Day starts off the year on a positive note, at least nutritionally. But where did the ideas that such cuisine brought good luck originate?

Who knows for sure. There is a theory that because the pig digs with its snout in a forward motion, the pig symbolizes progress…

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