Low Ping Beef
Low Ping Beef is a recipe brought about by a discussion I had with the guys about low ping servers and Counterstrike Source . If I understand correctly they get kicked off servers because they are either on a high-ping server and they are low ping or they are on a low-ping server and they are high ping. It all depends upon how much bandwidth we’ve got available and sometimes there just isn’t enough to go around. Also low ping and high ping somehow make you either more or less lethal in FPS games. I understand the use of ping to test an IP address, but this use of the word ping confuses me.
There is nothing confusing about this recipe. It uses the leftover rice and Mongolian beef from Sunday’s Chinese take-out. This is the perfect meal for Halloween night when the doorbell will be ringing for 2 or 3 hours with goofs and goblins. Actually, this is so good I would order the Mongolian Beef again just so I could make Low Ping Beef later. By the way…Low Ping Beef is really just Fried Rice, Vanessa Style.
4 cups cooked white rice, totally cooled, preferably leftovers from takeout
1 stalk celery diced, small
1/2 red onion, diced small
1 carrot, diced small
1/4 leek diced small (this should be a green onions but I didn’t have that)
Leftover Mongolian Beef, diced small
2 tablespoons Soy Sauce
1 tablespoon Sesame oil
1 teaspoon dried ginger from Penzeys
Put a large, flat skillet on a burner and heat it on high it on high for 4 minutes or until very hot. Add some canola oil. Add all of the veggies and stir-fry for 1 minutes or so. Add the Mongolian beef and stir-fry it for a minute. Add the rice and stir and toss this for a couple of minutes. Add the soy sauce, sesame oil, rice vinegar, and ginger. Stir to mix well. Continue to stir and toss until heated through and some brown bits form on the bottom of the skillet. Serve.
If you happen to know about low ping, latency, and what this all means in the game world let me know. Happy Halloween!
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