Beef Cooked 3 Ways

I was at my parents a couple Sundays ago.  While we waited for dinner, I ran down the street to TJ Maxx to go plate shopping.  I have been in need of new plates for pictures, but do not have much luck at the stores near my place.  My eyes laid on this one particular plate immediately.  It was a plate that had 3 separate bowls in it.  It was unique.

The next day, I was on a mission to create a dish so I can put this to use.  As I started taking the steaks out of the package, I started of coming up with ideas.  What if I did beef 3 separate ways?  The dinner that night took a while to prepare because I essentially was preparing three different dinners.

First, I cut a small portion and did a pepper crust to prepare the Pepper Steak Nigiri.  The most time consuming part of this was preparing the rice.  The rice has to be cooked then a solution of rice wine vinegar and sugar is added and needs to be cooled down to be "sticky".  The beef was simply seared.  I made a quick ponzu sauce for it.

Second, I thinly sliced the beef to prepare shiitake mushroom noodle soup.  The broth was composed of shiitake mushrooms and a vegetable stock that I had in the freezer.  I quickly cooked some bean thread noodles and laid thinly slices of beef on top of it.  The idea is to have the beef cook by pouring the hot broth over it.

And finally, we have beef kabobs.  I needed a protein to go with it, but wanted to be creative.  We have had a bag of quinoa laying around that we have not used.  On top of that, we have never had it before.  I read the basic instructions on how to cook it and started added my own ingredients to it.  I officially now love quinoa and love how it looks in pictures!