Easy! Summer Lazy Menu

Hello, this is Pandagorogoro.

It's hot every day, isn't it?
Because of this heat, the basil and shiso in my garden have grown large and multiplied too much, so
I've been taking them to my neighbor's wife,
and chopping them up into my omelet every morning, but
they just won't decrease.

The aroma is good, so maybe I'll grind them up and make a green sauce.

Now, about today's title.

Let's put aside the all-too-accurate observation that my menu is always a lazy one for a moment,

I recently made a discovery.

It is that,to increase the variety of your cooking, you just need to increase your seasonings.

Even if you use the same meat and vegetables, if the seasoning changes, what you have there is already a different dish.

Once you memorize a few combinations of seasonings,
all you have to do is use whatever meat and vegetables you happened to buy,
and you can provide your family with dishes that (appear to) be full of variety every day.

That said, if you use the same meat every day, it won't feel very different, so if you used pork yesterday, it's perfect if you use chicken today and beef tomorrow.

For mushrooms, it's good to rotate through shiitake, king oyster, maitake, and shimeji mushrooms.

If you swap regular peppers for bell peppers, the colors will also become more vibrant.
With red, yellow, orange, and the green of regular peppers, it's colorful and beautiful.

Bean sprouts are bean sprouts after all, so let's use them as bean sprouts.

▼ Main dish

The main dish basically consists of meat and side vegetables.
For the side vegetables, I use steamed-grilled, which takes the least amount of effort.
Steaming-grilling is a method where you can cook all the vegetables at the same time in a single frying pan.

For meat dishes, you just grill them.

Now, let's move on to the crucial seasoning after grilling.
Remove the meat from the frying pan and remove the excess fat that came out of the meat.
(Soak it up with a paper towel.)
Add the combined seasonings to the pan, heat it up, and then return the grilled meat.

[Seasoning (Combined Seasonings)]

1. Marmalade Sauce

2. Barbecue Sauce

3. Chinese-style Sauce

For this sauce,
after cooking the meat, without taking it out of the frying pan,
add 1 to 2 teaspoons of garlic and doubanjiang (spicy bean paste) directly.

After that, add this seasoning mixture and stir together.

The meat quantity is based on 300 grams, but
honestly, the taste doesn't change much with 250 grams or 350 grams.
Taste it, and if it feels like something is missing, add salt or soy sauce;
if it's too strong, try adding more vegetables.

[Steamed Vegetables]

After washing and cutting the vegetables, spread them out in a frying pan (bean sprouts, green peppers, mushrooms, etc.),
season with salt and pepper, add a drizzle of olive oil or salad oil,
cover with a lid, and cook over medium heat.
If it looks like it might burn, add a small amount of water, but usually the moisture from the vegetables is enough.
Turn to low heat, and when they become tender, it's done.
It's really easy to make and a big help.

▼ Side Dish 1

Chilled Tofu (Hiyayakko)
or Egg Tofu

It takes no effort at all. (Just buy it)

▼ Side Dish 2

Cucumber, Turnip, and Crab Stick Salad

Thinly slice cucumber and turnip, sprinkle with salt, squeeze lightly, and then
just mix in shredded crab sticks.

Sometimes the turnip is replaced with new onion or daikon radish.

▼Rice

Pre-washed rice is easy, but when I receive brown rice, I cook and eat that.

▼Miso soup (or clear soup)

I think tofu is the least troublesome ingredient.
I combine it with deep-fried tofu or seaweed.

That was Panda Gorogoro's lazy summer menu.

Meat is just grilled,
vegetables are just pan-steamed,
and the rest is chilled tofu and crab stick salad.

You want to spend as little time as possible standing in front of the stove, right?

I chose these three types of mixed seasonings
because they are highly versatile
and have a flavor profile that most people enjoy.
If there are any seasonings you haven't tried yet,
please give them a try.

Thank you for reading until the end today as well.
It is finally August.
Have a fun summer.