Tonight it will be chopped chicken and chickpeas sauteed with onions, garlic, soy sauce and ginger along with “gourmet mix”* mushrooms and garden greens over brown rice.
Here’s how I do it:
**1) Cook rice in microwave. **That’s
1a) 3 cups of water for 10 minutes on high
1b) Add 1.5 cups of brown rice
1c) Cook for 32 minutes at 60% power
2) Chop stuff in prep for cooking
2a) dice chicken
2b) I use canned chickpeas, so open can and drain
2c) Slice mushrooms
2d) Chop/shred greens**
2e) Get everything lined up and ready to go
**
3) Prepare cooking oil/seasonings**
3a)Chop onions and garlic
3b) Place in sautee pan or wok with sufficient oil for cooking
3c) Add soy sauce and ginger to taste
3d) Heat until onions become transparent
**4) Add chicken and chickpeas to pan and cook until chicken is done **(this will vary depending on whether you start with raw or cooked chicken
**5) Add mushrooms
6) Immediately add greens on top of everything
7) Cover and let things steam on reduce heat for 2-3 minutes **(until the greens start to wilt)
**8) Stir everything together.
Serve over rice.** Add salt/condiments to taste
From Meijer’s. Apparently this month it’s shiitake, baby portobellos, and oyster mushrooms.
** Tonight will probably be a mix of spinach and chard, but really, I’ve used every sort of green in every combination.
Brunch this morning features Electric Juice (Fuller’s Imperial pint glasses filled with orange, pineapple and grapefruit juice over ice, with vodka) and a cheese, mushroom, tomato and pepper frittata.
I did linguine with red pepper and feta sauce yesterday, with mushrooms. It was okay. I was hoping it would be better.
Tonight I’m thinking of layered stuff in a bowl a la bi bim bap- rice, veg, meat, eggs. I’ve got to go meat shopping. We just got a foreign exchange student and he doesn’t eat pork, upon which our family is heavily reliant. More vegetarian options, more beef and chicken.
Today I made totally kickass chicken and dumplings. I have tried a couple times before, not following a real recipe, just by guess and by golly, and they never turned out-the dumplings (bisquick) always disolved. But today… oh, they were YUMMY!
I’m about to throw some burgers on the grill. Got some sharp cheddar to melt on them when they’re almost done. The Druidess is handling 'taters and beans to go with it.
Actually, I’m forming up into kebabs. The lamb is mixed up with the spices. I’m just letting the skewers soak a bit before I start cooking. Couscous on the side, and I may throw some asparagus on the barbie with the kebabs.
Burgers as well. The wife is prepping the salads, we have potato salad left over from yesterday, and I’ve sliced up some green chilis for mine. Beer, burgers…the perfect way to end the weekend.
Like that matters to me. I’m a teacher. I’m off until the middle of August!
Tonight I took some catfish fillets through a drench of beaten egg then a dredge of some corn flour with a little salt and cayenne pepper mixed in, then into some hot vegetable oil for a couple of minutes on each side. My girlfriend made us a tossed green salad and then used the leftover oil to saute some squash.
Tonight I cut up some chicken tenderloins and made chicken nuggets- egg, then a mixture of panko crumbs and grated parmesean (doesn’t burn like shredded), fried in oil. Honey mustard (let me know if you need the recipe heh). Brussel sprouts (again, I am addicted to those things).
Last night we did a steak salad with cheddar-garlic biscuits. Wonderful!
We will soon be attempting to improve our tomato bisque recipe. Last night, we roasted a red pepper that we’re planning to incorporate. Maybe we’ll try it tonight.
What, it’s too hot to cook, you say? Do like I did this morning, and put a pork roast in your slow cooker, then in the last hour, add barbeque or jerk sauce, and shred… mmmm… pulled pork sandwiches. Add cole slaw and baked beans, and Robert’s your old maiden aunt’s live-in lover.
Okay! So, I made some fresh salsa again last night, linky to the other thread here with seeded stem tomatoes, vidalias, fresh jalapenos, cilantro, fresh lime juice and salt. A bag of limes was just $1.50 and they were JUICY. The worst is buying limes in the dead of winter when they’re dry and tasteless.
Some delicious stir-fry, $4 gets you plenty for 4 hungry people. Sesame oil and some San J teriyaki sauce made it yummy. Bulked it up with some chicken tenders and some extra broccoli and carrots and served it over brown rice, frozen and pre-cooked from Trader Joe’s also.
Tonight, dinner is courtesy of Groupon, website linky (to a pdf) here. Gonna get me some bacon wrapped quail eggs and striped bass ceviche for an appetizer, bulgogi with hangar steak for my entree and roasted spring chicken with mashed taters, asparagus and ancho tamarind glaze for the SO. I’ll probably drink an Arnold Palmer, he’ll probably drink a Sapporo and we’ll split a dessert.
Last night I made bean soup with leek, carrot, homemade chicken and pea pod stock, etc (including four kinds of chili on the hottest day of the year so far in London…). We had leftovers, and best end lamb chops, so tonight I roasted the chops, drained off the fat, then threw on the leftover bean soup. I let it cook long and low, then turned up the oven and topped it with a suet crust. It was *extremely *good. The lamb fell off the bone before I could get it to the plate.
That’s on the docket for this weekend. Tonight is going to be hot dogs and potato salad. Eating light today, because tomorrow we are cashing in a “2 free buffet” coupon at a local casino that has good-to-excellent food.
Breakfast for dinner tonight… brown & serve “snausages” and English muffins with chunky peanut butter and strawberry rhubarb jam. Just me for dinner so I didn’t go elaborate. And no, I didn’t make the jam but I sure wish I knew how!
I just noticed that my ketchup expired in 2009… tasted ok… if you don’t hear from me for a while you’ll know what it was. oops
Well the bugogi was good but not what I expected; it didn’t have any egg or vegetables (as I’ve seen it before) really with it but a salsa. Hangar steak is served medium rather than medium rare, which is odd because it’s never supposed to be cooked more than medium, or so I thought (and I wasn’t asked; I assumed it’d be medium-rare).
The SO’s chicken was raw inside. Really bizarre but it was an open kitchen and I was watching a guy doing his thing uncertainly. I assume he had his dish. He got a salad and a dessert out of it.
Dessert was pistachio flan for me and a poached pear with pistachio cream and a thin and crisp almond cookie.
Of course, the star of the meal was the bacon wrapped quail eggs. I assume heaven has them and jars of cream, butter and whiskey.
Out of $ for the month – today I ate a little ramen, a can of pintos, and a few good tortillas (not homemade), and a few tostadas (dorados) + yellow redneck cheese + some OK salsa I’d made a while ago, with lots of chiles. See you next month!
Tomorrow, wake up with some rice, finish the day with more rice and some garbanzos with a good yellow curry powder and a bunch of frozen spinach or peas and some green onions and red onions I’ve been saving for a week or so.
