Korean Hot Beef

Now that I’ve gotten your attention with mention of food, I will browbeat you with my take on political correctness, the media, and the potential danger of global polar reversal for the next dozen paragraphs.

Not really. But I had you scared anyway. No, I’ve been given strict orders to keep this all amiable and sweet. This isn’t easy for me. In fact, it’s just not my style. You know it, I know it, DOGS know it! (our Canadian friends might recognise the reference). I have a long history of “rabble rousing” in the literary sense. I have written decent poetry and fictional prose, but it’s not my forte. I was even forced to write about a sporting event for my high school paper just to break character. They didn’t bother running it if I remember, or, if they did, they removed the part about tax money subsidising football uniforms while I was paying full whack for Graphic Arts fees.

Joking aside, I don’t know where it comes from because I’m the nicest guy to talk to. I still lecture, but I do listen occasionally. Freya says I scare away the audience, but at least my parents still read my posts. Thanks mom and dad!

Okay, now that we’ve made amends and I’m completely exonerated from all wrong doing (Sign here:.........................................), let’s get this thing going.

I don’t exactly remember how I came by this recipe. It’s probably not Korean in origin and I’ve never been served anything similar by my Korean friends, but that’s what it’s always been called. I think it could have been an adapted recipe, although it’s missing the punchy sour element that I enjoy in other Korean dishes (Anybody know where to get decent Kimchi in Essex?). As you know I like my preparation to be quick and easy and this certainly ticks those boxes. Total prep time is three minutes. It contains only four main ingredients and a fifth critical ingredient, time. This dish is best prepped early in the day and simmered slowly over low heat or in a slow cooker for hours.

No, I can’t do it! I’m still seething about the commercial on TV trying to recruit teachers, showing a bunch of moronic kids asking inane questions like “Why can’t you see forces? ‘Cause you can see the effects!” and “Sometimes the water goes one way around the plughole and sometimes it runs the other. Why does it change direction?” What? Do you live on the magnetic equator or something? Okay, these aren’t interesting questions and despite what you’ve been told, some questions are stupid. (P.S. You can't ask Einstein, gormo, because he's dead!)

Oh, I’m glad that’s off my chest.

KOREAN HOT BEEF
Ingredients:
500g Good quality stew beef or steak if you’re going all out.
2-3 Chillies (Habanero Chillies if you want a chance of passing this off as Korean(Freya's Note: No Chance))
200ml Soy sauce (I always use Kikkoman)
500ml Water
METHOD
Slice the chillies and put into a slow cooker or saucepan with all remaining ingredients. Cook for a minimum of three hours until meat is tender and easily pulled apart. Remove meat from liquid with a slotted spoon placing into a bowl and reserving liquid. Once the meat is cool enough to shred, pull it apart into strands and place back into liquid. Serve over hot rice adding as much of the cooking liquid as you like. This is a really simple, tasty, guilty pleasure and will still be easy to prepare even after the Earths molten core rolls over on itself sending us instantly back to the stone age in a matter of 3 minutes!