I am going to begin posting some recipes that are our favorites. Tonight my wife is preparing a venison dish Chinese style. Here's what you need:
2-3 lbs of thinly cut venison loin or other venison meat
6 cloves of garlic chopped fine
1/4 cup of Soy Sauce
1 or 2 tablespoons of freshly cut ginger chopped fine
1 teaspoon of baking soda
3 chopped green onions
3 cut jalapeno peppers
1/4 cup of oil
1 Tablespoon of bbq sauce (Chinese style if available)
Cut your venison loin thinly to about 1" x 2" by about 1/4 inch thick or less. Thin is better for stir fry. It's easier to cut it thin if it is still partially frozen. Put the venison in a glass baking dish for marinading. Add soy sauce, baking soda, bbq sauce, ginger and garlic to the venison and mix thoroughly. Something we learned from our elders...
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Ancient Chinese Secret - Add a teaspoon of baking soda to your marinade to tenderize the meat nicely!
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The amount of baking soda is up to you. Try different amounts for the effect that suites you. It makes the meat nearly dissolve in your mouth and does not affect the taste much. Once the meat is mixed thoroughly, cover with plastic wrap and put in the fridge until ready to cook.
Add oil to the wok and heat on high until stir fry hot. Add the venison slowly to the pan and stir frequently. Add vegitables and cook until the meat is just no longer raw. Place onto a serving dish and enjoy while still warm. Season with salt to your taste.
Here we are at Wintergreen. This was the first ski trip for the girls. We took about a 2 hour class and then off to the slopes! The girls did well but my wife couldn't get it. She hurt more from falling down than skiing. Next time we will probobly try Massanutten Resort.
Today our family took our annual trip to DC at Christmas time to show the kids some new sites as well as show my niece, Judy, what goes on in this area at Christmas time.
Finally Halloween is over! My sister and I took the girls and their cousin Judy out for Trick-or-Treating. This was Judy's first time. They do not have Halloween in Taiwan and so this was a most unusual "Holiday" for her.
The girls had a costume party at their school today. Can you guess who they are supposed to be? Excitement is building for Trick or Treating Friday night.
Last week we decided to go hiking up on Skyline Drive. Here is a picture of our girls along with their cousin Judy who is staying with us this year to go to school and learn english. We are at the falls overlook at South River Falls. It is a good hike. From Skyline Drive, the hike takes you from the drive down to the bottom of the falls. Then you hike back up a fire road and cut over on the Apalachian Trail to get back to the parking area.
"I just wanna be a rockstar!"
Here are the girls with their most recent swimming partners, two tree frogs. Frogs frequent our pool all summer long and the girls have a lot of fun swimming with them in the pool...or should I call it torturing them?
This Memorial Day we spent at our house in Madison. Our neighbors have about a dozen horses and three foals were delivered about a week ago. These are a couple of the babies. One more was due any day.
An ice storm crippled Northern Virginia yesterday and closed the Springfield Interchange for nearly 8 hours. Freezing rain flash froze the high "flyways" and drivers could not get up or down the ramps. The salt and sand trucks even had to back their way up the ramps letting the salt and sand work before they could move further up. Traffic was completely stopped on 395 going south up to the Pentagon. Quite amazing that Germany can heat the Autobahn to prevent freezing but VDOT cannot even do it to the triple level flyway ramps that connect major highways. Fortunatly I was able to take backroads for a slow 1.5 hour commute home.
