Recipe request

[venta]

Does anyone have a good recipe for teriyaki sauce ? I'm after the thick, sticky kind which is served in some Japanese restaurants. Not the thin kind (although that's good as a marinade), which is also served in some Japanese restaurants :)

Failing that, can anyone recommend a brand of buyable sticky sauce ?

Comments

[tigerfort.livejournal.com]

You may want to add extra sugar, depending on how sweet the mirin is and how sweet you like it!

Be careful reducing syrups - use a heavy-bottomed pan, keep stirring, and keep the heat low (stripey_cat's mother tried to hurry along a syrup by whacking the heat up, and it boiled over, ignited on the elements, set off the fire-alarms in Hilda's accommodation, resulted in the Junior Dean cutting her hand trying to switch the alarm off, and left a lava-like mess on the cooker).

Don't use cornflour - you'll get entirely the wrong mouth-feel, and it'll taste nasty if it singes when you grill it!

[venta.livejournal.com]

Yes, I have a heavy-based pan for just such jobs :) I couldn't justify why I thought cornflour was a bad idea, it just seemed inherently wrong.

While you're here... are you someone I know ? I'm just curious, as I noticed you listing me as friend and occasionally commenting here, but I'm not sure whether you're a chance-met LJ person or someone I know in the Big World. Either is fine ;)

[tigerfort.livejournal.com]

You know me, although I'm not sure we've met in the last couple of years. Would you like clues?

[venta.livejournal.com]

Ooh, a game!

I've failed to gather any clues at all from your LJ. I'm not even sure whether you're a boy tiger or a girl tiger.

[tigerfort.livejournal.com]

Raaar!

Well the picture is of Tatiana, who's a girl tiger[1], rather than me. Telling you that my girlfriend-at-the-time-I-first-met-you is on your flist but not mine is probably not very much of a clue. Actually, it might not even be true, but it's certainly true of the first time I remember meeting you.

[1] and bat, who's a bat of indeterminate gender.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. I have a guess, but viewing your friends list suggests you don't count your brother as a friend :) Or maybe you've kept your LJs secret from each other.

Hmm. How are your hands these days ?

[tigerfort.livejournal.com]

As far as I'm aware, my brother hasn't updated his LJ or read his flist in the last two years, so there didn't seem much point in putting him on mine. The only mutual friends that I and he have (that I can see) are you and spaglet. Does this confirm your guess?

As for the hands... pretty grim; the current diagnosis (as of a few years ago) is early-onset arthritis, which is obviously encouraging as all hell. I've been working part-time for a while but have averaged less than three hours per week over the last couple of months and have an appointment to talk to the doctor tomorrow....

How are yours, which never got quite the way mine did, IIRC?

[venta.livejournal.com]

Does this confirm your guess?

I'm too lazy to check properly, but I think so; if nothing else, the answer to the following question did...

As for the hands... pretty grim

That does sound nasty and a little bleak. I'm really sorry to hear that all the problems are still ongoing. Fingers crossed that the doctor might have something useful to say tomorrow.

I guess by now you've heard most of the well-meaning comments/suggestions people might have, and I'm sorry not to be able to think of anything original to say.

How are yours, which never got quite the way mine did, IIRC?

No, mine were never as bad. In fact the diagnosis was ultimately that there was nothing wrong with them at all, the problems all stemmed from my neck. I now do various neck/shoulder exercises that keep my hands in working order. I still get a bunch of neck problems, but they tend to vary from mildly uncomfortable to short-term painful, certainly nothing seriously debilitating.