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Calamari Balsamic Stir-fry
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Meredith is out of town so this was my opportunity to make calamari. I settled on the balsamic stir fry. I made a balsamic-cilantro stir-fry sauce mostly inspired by the balsamic broccoli.[@rev]The actual ingredients are below. Note that since I was using the immersion blender, there was no reason to do the cornstarch separately.
I stir-fried it as I had been doing. First the meat with a bit of oil, then the veggies with water and lots of tossing to steam them. I feel like I should be actually stir-frying them but I really want to keepthe oil use down and I am not sure what to do otherwise.
I do not know if it was because I had to quick-defrost the calamari, if it was my cooking method, and/orthe calamari itself but the squid wasflavorless. I will not ruse to use it again. Chicken would have been better. Also, I am still not loving this stir-fry sauce. I think the hunt for a balsamic stir-fry sauce will continue.
Anyway, for the sauce, I usedthe following. The mayo was a strange choice but I thought it could give it a bit of a tang.
Combine all and immersion blend until fully emulsified and combined.
The vegetables were:
I also made 2/3 cup brown rice roughly following this[@rev](password is the name of my dog, all lower case)
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