the math made me do it

Scenario: You offer to make dinner for your mother and she offers up the ingredient lobster with the catch that one smallish tail is supposed to feed three. hmm sounds like a grade school math problem if only she were taking the train.

Solution: take tiny lobster tail and break it into segments and turn it into Asian refrigerator stir-fry surprise as shown in photos below.

Ingredients for lobster stir-fry:

lobster tail - segmented I left the shell on because they were too pretty and kept the meat in a neat little package

ginger - Jullienned - or something like that

onion - I don't know the name of the cut but little half moon sections like an orange wedge

red bell pepper or other color of choice - chef's choice on cut

green onion - chef's choice on cut

celery - chef's choice

yellow curry powder - to taste, more makes it spicier

fish sauce - to taste

corn starch - tsp-ish

veggie oil of choice

Ingredients for accompanying veggie stir fry:

shiitake mushrooms - sliced (looks like shit-take sounds like she-tak-eh I only say this because i just learned how to spell it when I typed it up for this blog)

beet greens - chopped ( I love beets and so I seem to always have beet greens on hand but any hardy green will work)

soy sauce - (I prefer Golden Mountain)

onion

garlic

corn starch

veggie oil of choice

Directions: (work for both dishes)

cook onions in oil on high heat add other ingredients except bell peppers and green onions they are last and only need a min or two of heat.  For curry stir-fry add powdered curry to mix and stir if it doesn't mix in well add a little water, not much because a little goes a long way and you don't want to make it a soup.  Lobster sections cook pretty fast and when the shells are all red they're done.  Veggie stir-fry takes a few minutes less than the lobster..

the segments are actually really pretty with the flippy flippers (i may or may not have played with the flippers and imagined some space invader action)

i tell myself that there was just too much color that's why the photo is blurry

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