Vegetable Tamari Stir Fry

There are so many nights when I’m just too busy to spend huge amounts of time fiddling around, toiling in the kitchen to have dinner ready. But at the same time I still want something substantial, interesting, and packed full of nutrients. When I find myself in this fussy dilemma, a speedy stir fry hits the spot.

Stir fries can be dated back to the Han Dynasty in China between 206 B.C and A.D 220. Chronic fuel shortages meant that people needed to find alternative ways to cook, without using too much oil. Stir frying was the perfect method of cooking; quickly heating the ingredients in a pan with a little bit of oil. Today, stir-frying has become China’s most favoured cooking technique, and has infiltrated all through Asia, and jumped over to the west. It’s now a worldwide favourite.

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Like humans, different foods can become better versions of themselves by association. Certain ingredients are taken up to another level when married to Mr. Right; think tomato and basil.  They’ve been soul mates all along, partners in crime, just waiting to bring the best out in one another. Cauliflower is another one that’s transformed when matched up with an eligible bachelor. She’s quite a plain-jane ingredient on her own, but a dead set knock-out when in the right relationship. Although if she were on facebook her relationship status would be “Its complicated". Rather than a sensible matrimony between two ingredients, she benefits greatly from more of an open-marriage, or a multiple-partnered approach.

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