Beef, lime & peppers

Ingredients; 2 banana peppers, 2 cherry bomb peppers, 1 red sweet pepper, bean sprouts 100gr, steak 150 gr, fresh ginger 1 cm, fish sauce 1 tbsp, oyster sauce 1 tbsp, sesame oil, 1 garlic clove, sunflower oil 4 tbsp, 2 limes, water, sugar 1 tbsp, potato starch 1 tsp.

Wash the lime. Keep zest from half a lime. Peel the other lime and slice into thin parts.  Bring the juice of 1 lime, 3tbsp of water and 1 tbsp of sugar to the boil. Add 1 tsp potato starch to 1 tbsp of water and mix well. Add to the boiling lime juice and stir. Turn down the heat and add the lime slices. set aside.

Bring water to the boil in a cooking pot. Turn off the fire and add the bean sprouts. leave for a couple of minutes and drain. Set aside.
Cut the beef into thin slices (About 5 mm). Heat a wok add 2 tbsp of oil and fry the beef. Just half a minute on each side, on high heat. Set the beef aside.  Add a little more oil to the wok. Fry the sliced peppers for 1 to 2 min. Add the diced sweet pepper and ginger. Fry for 3 more minutes.
Add fish sauce, oyster sauce and chopped garlic.Stir fry for a couple of minutes.
Now add the bean sprouts and the beef (juice and all). Heat, then add the lime sauce and lime parts, stir well. Add a few drops of sesame oil and serve.

Feed me; Cat Ba nights.

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beans, beans....and cheese

Ingredients: bread, cheese, canned beans, butter and sambal

A quick snack or meal. You can use white or brown bread, it's up to you. 2 slices of bread in between cheese to your liking. You can use cheddar cheese, gouda... any cheese that melts nicely when grilled. Heat your grill (you can bake it in a non stick pan with some butter). meanwhile heat your beans. Heat a little butter in a frying pan add the sambal. fry for a minute add the beans. stir while heating. Put the bread on the grill and grill until the cheese melts. serve with the beans.