Sweet & Sour Sausage Stir Fry
Smooth Pineapple Sweet & Sour Sausage Stir-Fry
A rich, savoury-sweet stir-fry with a blitzed pineapple sauce that coats every slice of sausage and vegetable evenly.
Prep: 15 min | Cook: 20 min | Active: 22–26 min | Servings: 4
Timeline
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1. Blitz the Pineapple & Whisk the Sauce :s1, 18:34, 5m
2. Brown the Sausages :s2, 18:39, 10m
3. Sauté the Firm Vegetables :s3, 18:49, 5m
4. Add Mushrooms, Broccoli & Garlic :s4, 18:54, 3m
5. Simmer with Sauce & Bok Choi :s5, 18:57, 3m
Ingredients
- Base & Meat:
- 8 good-quality sausages (sliced into bite-sized coins)
- 1 tin pineapple chunks in juice (chunks AND juice blitzed smooth)
- 1 tbsp cooking oil
- Vegetable Mix:
- 1 onion (sliced)
- 1-2 bell peppers (sliced)
- 1 carrot (sliced into thin coins or matchsticks)
- 150g mushrooms (quartered or sliced)
- 100g tenderstem broccoli (halved lengthwise)
- 2 heads bok choi (stems sliced, leaves left large)
- 2 cloves garlic (minced)
- Smooth Sweet & Sour Sauce:
- Blitzed pineapple puree (from the entire tin)
- 2 tbsp tomato puree (tomato paste)
- 2 tbsp soy sauce
- 2.5 tbsp apple cider vinegar (or white vinegar)
- 2 tbsp brown sugar or honey (adjust slightly to taste)
- 1 tbsp cornstarch (slurried in 2 tbsp cold water)
Steps
- Blitz the Pineapple & Whisk the Sauce (5 min)
Start: T-26 to T-22 min before serving
Why My Bonnet Is In The Garden
(long post ahead)
A Roundabout Story
For a while now, my car gets grumpy when it gets hot. In stationary traffic it gets hot, the fan kicks in and it becomes a bit of a struggle to keep it running at idle as the engine goes lean. I assumed it was to do with the engine ingesting hot air coming out of the radiator as under bonnet temperatures get quite high when the fan is running1
Obsidian & Hugo
If you’re reading this, it worked :)
This site is generated by Hugo and controlled with Git. Whilst markdown is quite easy, I had grown attached to Obsidian at work (thanks Eva!) when I still had a job.
Anyway, here’s a picture of Oscar peeking out from the Fury bonnet in the garden. That will be the subject of another post once I’m sure pictures work.
Red, Blue or White Pill?
I’ve found a new gadget that I’m genuinely excited about. The Pill from Shelly is a tiny little USB powered thing that you can plug sensors into and advertise the values over BLE
A little bit of time travel
I have a Stupid Car
and I’ve always had trouble with temperatures under the bonnet.
Over the years I’ve tried to interface to DS18B20 sensors in various ways. It started with Raspberry Pi(s) which required a lot of effort not to kill with car voltages and shutdown.
VETuner Updates
It’s been a little quiet lately so I thought I better post an update. Since the last post there have been over 350 updates made to the software. A lot have focussed on reliability and robustness of the connection, but here are a few of my favourite ‘user facing’ changes.
Idle Advance Doctor
Kicking The Tyres Of VETuner
This is a walkthrough of what VETuner looks like, and what you can do with it.
Initial Connection
VETuner uses the WebSerial/WebUSB interfaces supported by the Chrome family of browsers. Typically WebSerial is used on laptops, WebUSB on phones and tablets. Generally it tries its best to find your ECU. For security reasons, you have to select the right device the first time you try to connect, but it will automatically connect from that point onwards.
VETuner is live at vetuner.co.uk
VETuner now has a proper home at vetuner.co.uk .
If you’ve been following along while I poked at parsers, dashboards, serial comms and all the other fun bits, this is the bit where it turns from “odd side project” into “real thing with an actual domain”. It may even result in “actual users” and “actual users who give me money”!
This was driven by me getting fed up with Android development for MSDroid. MSDroid is great, it’s just Google changing the requirements underneath it, taking phones from general purpose computing devices into ad impression generators. Ironically, it’s Google that makes the only browser with the Serial/USB APIs I need to talk to the ECUs, so I’m not completely done with them.
How Many Sins Had Annie Lennox Commited?
In the song Missionary Man, Annie Lennox sings
Well, I was born an original sinner
I was born from original sin
And if I had a dollar bill for all the things I've done
There'd be a mountain of money piled up to my chin, hey!
How much money is that?
According to Celebheights.com , she is 172.7cm tall. According to Wikipedia a dollar bill (I’ll assume she meant US dollars) is 0.11mm thick.
Elephant In The Room
You may have seen this story last week. Well that was about me and 999 other people and come April 5th I will officially be one of Thatcher’s Threee Million.
I’m 55 and I can’t face the bullshit of interviews so it’s probably game over. I’m good at what I did (Engineering Manager) but I have zero enthusiasm to explain that several times over and get quizzed on my mental recall of random trivia of HTTP verbs for things that in real life are abstracted away or found with a quick DDG.
Major Success!
What you see there is the first time I have successfully connected a web browser running on Android to a Speeduino ECU via a direct USB connection.
The read rate is poor as it was a very old Motorola that is normally my Squeezebox controller , but it was to hand and had a USB-C socket on it. I have got over 60Hz on a desktop browser.