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August 15, 2011

Picture View - Asian Style Beef with Rice


Asian Beef & Rice Ingredients


Thinly sliced beef


Rice with butter on top

Beef marinating


Sirloin in the wok

Finished beef

Asian Stlye Beef with Rice - Home Cooked Recipe 8

I absolutely adore Asian food. Ok, I adore all types of cuisines, but I'm really interested in learning more Asian recipes. I had some boneless top round sirloin. Usually I'll make a beef and broccoli dish that's fabulous and tastes extremely similar to Chinese restaurants, but I wanted to try something different. I came up with my own little marinade for the beef that was outstanding! The recipe is below.

Asian Style Beef with Rice

Marinade -

3 tbs soy sauce

4 tbs unseasoned rice vinegar

1 tbs fish sauce

1 tbs sesame oil

salt & pepper

1 tsp granulated garlic

1 tsp onion powder

dash of cayenne

1 lb boneless sirloin, thinly sliced

Rice -

1 cup white rice

2 1/4 cups water

2 tbs butter

Sesame seeds

Mix together your soy sauce, vinegar, oil, fish sauce, garlic, onion, and cayenne. Add salt and pepper, going light on the salt because the soy sauce has plenty. Add sliced beef and refrigerate for 20 - 40 minutes.

Bring your water to a boil. Stir in rice, reduce heat to low, and let cook for 25 minutes.

When rice has cooked for 20 minutes, heat up your wok (or large saute pan) on high. Add butter to rice and let melt. When wok is hot, add half your beef to the pan. Cook for 1 minute, flip pieces over, and cook 2 more minutes. Remove to a plate and cook other half of beef exactly the same way.

Stir rice and scoop on to plates. Top with beef, then a sprinkle of sesame seeds. Enjoy!


Asian Beef with Rice

Picture View - Parmesan Tilapia

Tilapia filets and prepared parmesan mixture


Filets on prepared baking pan


Parmesan topping on fish before it's final broil


Parmesan tilapia is ready

Parmesan Tilapia - Home Cooked Recipe 7

I had never eaten tilapia but it was on sale at our local Sam's Club. We bought a package of 6 HUGE filets for only $13. We easily could have fed 12 people! We were browsing for tilapia recipes and found this great recipe for a creamy, cheesy tilapia that I doctored up to fit our tastes. Below is the recipe!

Parmesan Tilapia

1 cup Parmesan cheese
1/4 cup butter, softened
3 tbs mayonnaise
2 tbs fresh lemon juice
1 tsp granulated garlic
1 teaspoon onion powder
1/2 teaspoon celery salt
black pepper to taste
1 lemon, sliced
2 pounds tilapia fillets

Preheat the broiler on the oven. Line a baking pan with aluminum foil. In a bowl, mix together everything but the tilapia. Arrange your tilapia filets on the lined pan. Place lemon slices on tilapia filets. Broil for 3 minutes. Remove lemon slices, set aside, turn your filets over, and place lemon slices over the filets again. Broil another 3 minutes. Remove lemon slices and cover tilapia filets with parmesan mixture. Broil another 3 minutes and remove from oven. Place onto plates and serve. Enjoy!