lemongrass whatever

Ok, so tonight i had company over. I keep buying lemongrass and letting it go bad in my fridge, basically because i have no clue how to use it, nor do i really ever remember that it is IN my fridge. I used my one-meat-a-month card and made this recipe up. It's a combination of 4 different recipes sort of as i really just looked at them to see what was in them and didn't even use their proportions, and it turned out FANTASTIC. I'm assuming this will work with pork, chicken, shrimp, or tofu, but I just happened to use beef. So, here goes...

Lemongrass Beef

1 lb boneless ribeye steak

2 red bell peppers, quartered, and sliced

3 stalks lemongrass

fish sauce

5 cloves garlic, then 8 more

2 tbsp sugar

4 red chiles (the dried ones in like Kung pao whatever)

1 med yellow onion, halved then sliced thin

3 med to thick green onions

soy sauce

2 handfulls of snow peas

about 10 stalks of asparagus, cut into thumb sized pieces

olive oil

Cut up lemongrass into thumb sized pieces. Combine with chilies, 5 cloves garlic, sugar, and 2 tbsp fish sauce in a small food processor, until the mix is more mush than woodiness. Coat steak with about 2/3 of this mix. Cover and marinate in the fridge for 30 min. During this time, prep your veggies if you havent already. Put on a pot of rice if you like. After 30 min, put steak in a pan and brown (till lemongrass starts to singe a little). Scrape pan, flip, and cook for another 5 min in the pan. Turn off heat, set aside, scrape pan onto cutting board too. Put onion, the rest of the garlic, and a little olive oil in a nonstick pot or wok. Stir fry until the garlic starts to soften and the onions carmelize. You will probably have to add a little water here and there. Add asparagus, peppers, and the rest of the lemongrass sauce. Stir fry for about 4 min. Slice the beef up into thumbsized chunks and add to pan (along with pan scrapings), along with the snow peas. Add a couple tbsp soy sauce and fish sauce and stir fry until the snow peas are mildly cooked. Serve over hot rice. MMMM