had a dinner party tonight and everyone came in spite of major snow storm. virginie is a camera-woman that p. met on a trip to cuba many years ago. she is married to raoul from senegal and they have a daughter, cassandra, who is 10. they are interesting people. virginie does work for a travel channel. it’s especially great to see them because cassandra does not speak any english, so jj is forced to practice her french. even jj appreciates that.
marie m. came over too. we haven’t seen her since she came for brunch a couple of months ago. she brought some champagne. p. went to the bistro across the street to get oysters. i made chinese food – fried marinated flank steak, shrimp in pepper sauce (without the hot pepper – from the time-life chinese cookbook – one of my favorites – easy to prep ahead of time and then cook at last minute), green beans, and rice. jj and p bought ice cream for dessert, from amorino, the fancy ice cream store. at first, i didn’t think that was special enough for dinner. in fact, it was fantastic and delicious! they got 3 flavors – “speculos” is a cinnamon cookie, coffee and mango.
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Chinese [Deep Fried] Flank Steak
Sauce: Combine following ingredients
3 Tbsp Soy Sauce
1 Tbsp Oyster Sauce
1 Tbsp Sherry or Mirin
1 tsp Sugar
1 ½ tsp Cornstarch
¼ tsp salt
1 egg
1 scallion
1 tsp Grated Ginger
Beef:
1 – 2 lbs Flank steak
Beat the steak with the back of a knife. Cut into bite size pieces or 2.5” square approximately. 1 lb would make 4 -6 pieces. Marinate the pieces in the sauce overnight.
Deep Fry or Pan fry in oil (high temp) 5 mins each side.
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