Firing Off

There's really no theme tonight, I just happen to have some ingredients and needed to fire off a dinner for the website. Usually I'm into it, but tonight's Friday and I don't really feel like cooking and I just wanted to fire off something as quickly as possible. I had planned to make a nice little meal around this Thai Beef, which I've already done a few similar dishes of. I suppose that's still what I did. I actually liked how tender the meat was and the sort of "is it fishy or is it notness" from using so much fish sauce, which is more salty than anything. I'm sort of a sucker for anything with lemongrass, so this won me over for simplicity. Plus, it's really cheap, quick and easy and can be thrown into basically anything, like a stir-fry or in a spring roll like I was originally going to do.

Instead, I made some Red Rice to throw it on. This was basically spicy Coconut Rice with a mixture of tomato paste, cayenne, red chili flakes and paprika to give it the red color. I think the paprika was a bad idea because it gave it a bit of a Southwest Chili flavor. On its own or with another dish it would've been fine, but it didn't really go with the Thai beef that well to me.

I already kind of did a Curried Cauliflower dish, but this one is different! This one contains a sauce! and saffron! and more exclamation marks! I also totally overcooked the cauliflower, leaving it very mushy. So that definitely sets it apart from the last time I made it, because I'm not sure the last time I totally overcooked cauliflower. That ruined it for me, so I can't really say for sure if it would've been good otherwise. I'd just stick to the original recipe or make a cauliflower soup, I reckon.