Sweet and Sour Beef Short Ribs

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Good Morning Sunshine!

Hopefully it's gonna be a nice sunny day as opposed to sun, dark clouds, sun, rain, wet, wet, gloomy. Too much wanting me, I know 😁🫣😁🫣

I saw new plants on the peony that I just planted the bare root a month ago, so am hoping for hot sunny day, please! Would be nice for those new plants to soak up a lot of sunny days before Autumn is officially here. Yep, I said officially as the sign is already here. My plum tree leaves always the 1st turning reddish whenever Autumn is approaching, and I've been noticing a couple of the leaves turning red last week 🧐

Anyhoo!

This following dish is my oldest's and mine as well, favorite. Normally I don't add white fungus as years before, the boys didn't like the texture. The other day, I tried again with white fungus and my oldest finally said it's his favorite, the white fungus, in the sauce, he said πŸ˜‰πŸ˜πŸ˜‰πŸ˜

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1 white fungus
Hot boiling water
2.2 lbs short beef ribs
2 c flour
2 tbsp chicken bouillon powder
1 c light tasting olive oil
1 med-large onion
1 large bayleaf
2 garlic
1/3 c ketchup
1/4 c Apple cider vinegar
1 1/2 c hot boiling water
Freshly cracked black pepper
1 handful golden raisins

Additional

2 tbsp ketchup
1/4 c Apple cider vinegar
1 c hot boiling water

Soak white fungus in hot boiling water to bloom and soften, then drain, chop, rinse, set to side

In a bowl, mix flour and bouillon powder

Cut ribs into cubes and coat them in seasoned flour. Fry til browning in olive oil, set to side

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Slice garlic and onion, saute them in leftover grease in the pan, along with bayleaf, until fragrant, then stir in fungus, cook for 1 minute

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Add in beef ribs into the pan, stir, then flavor with the rest of the ingredients, then add in raisins, cook on low-medium heat, for 35-45 minutes, stirring occasionally

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If needed and/or wanted, add more ketchup, apple cider vinegar and hot boiling water, for more sweeter and sour flavor

Enjoy!