I tried making Rachael Ray's "Asian" stir-fry sauce, the one she says is so easy-to-make and tasty.
It sucks.
I ruined two New York strip steaks with it. Never again. This is a reminder of why a lot of Asians view Western riffs on their food with some suspicion. East-West fusion dishes, whether made by Westerners or Easterners, can be fantastic, but they can also fail miserably.
Here, for your amusement or horror, is Ray's recipe for the stir-fry sauce (which, upon second viewing, looks like something I should have avoided from the beginning):
3 tbsp. brown sugar
3 tbsp. soy sauce
1/4 cup ketchup
1/4 cup yellow mustard
Add near the end of the stir-fry. (This sauce was offered with a beef pepper steak. I seriously doubt it would work with any other meat-- not even chicken, which is the most forgiving of meats.)
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Marathon
11 years ago
2 comments:
Dude. Don't you know Rachel Ray is made of nothing but pure evil. It's like she was born just to incite homicidal thoughts in everyone who has the misfortune of having their corneas scarred with the sight of her. And the voice/cackle are filling sanitariums past capacity as we speak.
Look closely at her. She shares the exact same grin as the Joker in Batman. Srsly!
Actually that sauce would have been fine had you omitted the yellow mustard (wtf??) and added some ginger and garlic and chili pepper flakes, and perhaps a bit of sherry or Mirin, and dusted it all with scallions, post-cooking. RaeRay = ReeRee, imho.
The sauce itself was "basic" at best, and IMHO, the inclusion of soy sauce doesn't inherently make anything and everything "Asian."
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