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od to the perfect stir fry she told me, is as follows:One protein sourceOne vegetableOne onionOne carbAnd as many spices as you’d like.One vegetable? Seriously?Yes, she said solemnly, absolutely only one vegetable excluding onion.Damn. I was planning aubergines, carrots, mushrooms, broccoli and anything else that started life as a seed.Okay, Mona, I trust you.So I chopped up the salmon and chose the broccoli as my one vegetable.Oh my god, was she right? It was delicious.All my life I’ve been bombarding my stir fry with vegetables. I know the mantra less is more, I know that overcomplicating a story or situation never makes it better, so why was I making the quantity over quality error?Maybe stir fry had taken on a different purpose. Instead of a simple, tasty dish perhaps it turned into a healthy food splurge come vitamin party. I guess there are worse things to overdo.May

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be the look of those beautiful, bright vegetables was too much to resist.Maybe, that despite knowing better, I have subconsciously subscribed to the mantra that bigger is better. Our whole economic system is based on this fallacy. We pay for a bigger room in a hotel or a few inches more space in an aeroplane.This anecdote about the benefits of simplicity comes as a timely reminder to my writing too.I’ve been stumbling recently; trying to fill my blogs with everything. The right content, the right headline, the right picture, the right call to action, the proper takeaway and somewhere amongst all of those vegetables I’ve forgotten what it is I’m trying to say and to who.This scramble to find the secret sauce has resulted not only in a tasteless dish but near abandonment of the cuisine too. Well, not abandonment but not enjoyment either.From now on until my next realisation, which could be tomorrow I’m going to take these two elements and my onion and create something with real flavour.See you on the road to Less Is More?</article></body>

The Perfect Stir Fry Recipe

My friend Mona, who is a foodie shared a tip with me about cooking. We were swapping dinner pictures over WhatsApp, in a way that I would have looked down on just two months ago. In the absence of dinner parties and sharing food in real-time, I now get it.

She is an expert on East Asian food; dumplings, bun, noodles etc. and an adventurer in all other cuisines. Adventurers, no matter what their speciality tend to migrate towards each other, don’t you find?

So, wanting to cook something relatively healthy for dinner, I asked her a question. Mona, what is the secret to good stir fry because I can’t get it right?

She shared it with me because that’s what adventurers do too.

The method to the perfect stir fry she told me, is as follows:

One protein source

One vegetable

One onion

One carb

And as many spices as you’d like.

One vegetable? Seriously?

Yes, she said solemnly, absolutely only one vegetable excluding onion.

Damn. I was planning aubergines, carrots, mushrooms, broccoli and anything else that started life as a seed.

Okay, Mona, I trust you.

So I chopped up the salmon and chose the broccoli as my one vegetable.

Oh my god, was she right? It was delicious.

All my life I’ve been bombarding my stir fry with vegetables. I know the mantra less is more, I know that overcomplicating a story or situation never makes it better, so why was I making the quantity over quality error?

Maybe stir fry had taken on a different purpose. Instead of a simple, tasty dish perhaps it turned into a healthy food splurge come vitamin party. I guess there are worse things to overdo.

Maybe the look of those beautiful, bright vegetables was too much to resist.

Maybe, that despite knowing better, I have subconsciously subscribed to the mantra that bigger is better. Our whole economic system is based on this fallacy. We pay for a bigger room in a hotel or a few inches more space in an aeroplane.

This anecdote about the benefits of simplicity comes as a timely reminder to my writing too.

I’ve been stumbling recently; trying to fill my blogs with everything. The right content, the right headline, the right picture, the right call to action, the proper takeaway and somewhere amongst all of those vegetables I’ve forgotten what it is I’m trying to say and to who.

This scramble to find the secret sauce has resulted not only in a tasteless dish but near abandonment of the cuisine too. Well, not abandonment but not enjoyment either.

From now on until my next realisation, which could be tomorrow I’m going to take these two elements and my onion and create something with real flavour.

See you on the road to Less Is More?