OK, so lunch doesn't look all that great but wow was it fantastic. Grilled steak tips marinated in nothing more than soy, fish sauce, brown sugar and fridge-dried Thai chili peppers. Grilled the beef. "Sushi" rice with apple cider vinegar, and sugar of course. Steamed broccoli and carrot, shiitake sauteed in butter. Not shown is drizzling a little of marinade into the rice. The combination of sweet, salty and spicy was PERFECT. I devoured this. As I try to do with my French cooking, most times less is more. I'll delete the broccoli in the future and just do carrots and shiitakes. The buttered shiitakes with the beef and marinade was otherworldly good.
had a glass of Picpoul de Pinet with this. While usually paired with seafood, it worked with the complex flavoring.
