So I've started a new adventure. I made a marinade of brown sugar (handful), soy sauce, fresh pressed garlic, fresh grated ginger(Try the smallest holes on a box grater. Reach in with a knife and make sure you scrape everything off the wall of the box grater.), one to two teaspoons of fish sauce, couple of shots of bourbon, and a little bit of apple juice to make just under two cups of marinade depending on how much sugar and soy you like. Soak anything in for however long you like. Overnight will be good but strong for beef, pork, and chicken. Haven't used it on fish yet so I don't want to vouch for its effectiveness in that environment. After marinading your protein or veggies grill, bake, fry, or broil until charred a little and done. Whatever marinade is left over needs to be boiled for a few minutes to make sure all the raw proteins in the marinade are cooked. It can then be used as a sauce for the finished product or put in the fridge to be a sauce that can be added to over and over even when putting different things in it. Tofu would be great I think. Need to try that for sure.
I started making this type of marinade for pork or dark meat chicken. Something with enough intrinsic fat to let the marinade really sing after a bit of charring occurs. Then I realized that it would be good on veggies meat etc. As thing soak in the stuff they give off a little of their own flavor that we finish by cooking the new marinade down for a few minutes.
If you were in a bind and wanted to make a quick stir fry just add a little of this sauce from the fridge to the mix if sweet works and tah dah tasty stir fry. Start the stir fry with fresh pressed garlic and fresh grated ginger or some other spice mix that you like. Sesame oil wouldn't hurt either. I bet it would be good on corn mixed with a little butter. Kind of that kettle corn thing with added flavors. Finally is spicy is your thing then put some clean heat in there like an Jalapeno or Habanero if you like. My family couldn't deal with that so I'm not doing it currently.
Still eating the last of my mangoes gleaned from the ground around town. Gonna be a long wait till next years crop.
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