as promised, pictures of chicken and pork cooked with homemade hoisin sauce with beet juice instead of red food coloring:
as you can see, the coloring did not penetrate very far into the meat. perhaps if i marinaded overnight, the results would be better. that said, it was delicious, and it was grilled with charcoal with some apple wood smoking.
the rest is my interpretation of pad thai, with homegrown oyster mushrooms (of course), but over fried rice noodles. i prefer them fried.
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