Because you should try it too.

CostCo sells "stew beef" for $3/lb. It's the trimmings off of whatever else they had, in about 2" chunks.

Perfect for shish kebab, but it needs marination.

Marinade:

In a big bowl, mix together:

soy sauce
honey
rice vinegar
olive oil
ginger (paste or smooshed)
garlic (smooshed)
sesame oil
pepper sauce of your choice (this batch is using a Datil pepper sauce which contains peppers, vinegar, and some tomatoes and sugar)

this is in approximate order of relative abundance. It should taste strong, complex and good. If it doesn't, figure out what it's lacking.

Marinate the meat in it for a day or two in the fridge.

We'll be grilling it with baby peppers, onions, mushrooms, mostly-cooked potatoes, and maybe some tomatoes.

Because you should try it too.

CostCo sells "stew beef" for $3/lb. It's the trimmings off of whatever else they had, in about 2" chunks.

Perfect for shish kebab, but it needs marination.

Marinade:

In a big bowl, mix together:

soy sauce
honey
rice vinegar
olive oil
ginger (paste or smooshed)
garlic (smooshed)
sesame oil
pepper sauce of your choice (this batch is using a Datil pepper sauce which contains peppers, vinegar, and some tomatoes and sugar)

this is in approximate order of relative abundance. It should taste strong, complex and good. If it doesn't, figure out what it's lacking.

Marinate the meat in it for a day or two in the fridge.

We'll be grilling it with baby peppers, onions, mushrooms, mostly-cooked potatoes, and maybe some tomatoes.

Books

(the what I read at WorldCon edition)

_Uglies_
_Pretties_
_Specials_
_Extras_, all by Scott Westerfeld.

I like Westerfeld's adult novels more than his YA, but the YA seems to be selling better, so there you go. This is a trilogy-plus set in a post-apocalyptic (nanotech plague made all the gasoline explosive) rigidly controlled nameless ecologically sound utopian city. The viewpoint character is just about to turn 16, the appointed date on which she will stop being an Ugly (unadulterated human) courtesy of The Operation that will make her Pretty -- granting her beauty, health, wealth, status, and incidentally turn off the sections of her brain that are creative, inventive, non-conformist, or worried.

Naturally she escapes to a rebellion hidden in the wilderness. It's what happens after that which shows off Westerfeld's talent.

Good story-making, interesting themes, not at all preachy.

Books

(the what I read at WorldCon edition)

_Uglies_
_Pretties_
_Specials_
_Extras_, all by Scott Westerfeld.

I like Westerfeld's adult novels more than his YA, but the YA seems to be selling better, so there you go. This is a trilogy-plus set in a post-apocalyptic (nanotech plague made all the gasoline explosive) rigidly controlled nameless ecologically sound utopian city. The viewpoint character is just about to turn 16, the appointed date on which she will stop being an Ugly (unadulterated human) courtesy of The Operation that will make her Pretty -- granting her beauty, health, wealth, status, and incidentally turn off the sections of her brain that are creative, inventive, non-conformist, or worried.

Naturally she escapes to a rebellion hidden in the wilderness. It's what happens after that which shows off Westerfeld's talent.

Good story-making, interesting themes, not at all preachy.