This is a clean-out-the-refrigerator dish that also impresses!
Not for the cowardly cooker: you’ll have to make up your own measurements, and your ingredients, too.
Rice stick (subbing spaghetti not recommended)
Peanut butter, preferably fortified with sugar.
Ketchup
Garlic, scallions and/or onion
Scrambled eggs
Tofu
Peanuts
What veggies you got – broccoli, carrots, mung bean sprouts..’tev
Booze
All or some of the following: chili paste, soy sauce, plum sauce
vinegar, brown sugar, hot sauce
Give your date a drink. And yourself.
Spread the peanuts out on a baking sheet or something. Turn the oven on and put them in. After some time, take them out. DON’T FORGET ABOUT THEM!
OK, boil up those rice noodles but not until they’re soft. You’re going to try to fry ’em in a minute.
Get a big frying pan or wok. Add lots of oil. What you’re going to do is fry everything, and then add your liquid stuff. I usually start with the noodles, push them aside, make the scrambled eggs, then add the tofu and all the veggies. Except for the bean spouts.
Now, add liberal amounts of peanut butter and ketchup. You’re going for a nice balance of sweet and salty and hot, so add the rest of the stuff to taste. Err on the side of too much of everything.
Cook and stir into a nicely blended mass of yum.
When it’s done, put it on a plate and throw on the peanuts and bean sprouts if you have them. Restaurants like to add a lime or lemon wedge. You might want to, too. Who knows?

Posted by: katspank