Saturday, January 26, 2008

What's Happening

As we pack and move closer to Moving Day, we're still having guests for dinner and enjoying a variety of home cooked meals--but simplified.


Over the weekend we had guests over for game night. Yes, we're Dork A Rific and have game night. On Sunday I made Cashew Chicken for 100 people...well, 5 people, but it was a ton of food.
As with all Chinese food, you need to prep all in advance!

I pretty much tripled the recipe and had food for close to ten people.


On Tuesday night I needed to come up with something for dinner with what I had in the fridge. I sliced up two potatoes, a handful of carrots and a little bit of kielbasa sausage. So, we had a sauted dinner. The potatoes were great! Carrots were seasoned with thyme and the sausage was quickly sauted to get some great browning and a little crispy. So not the most healthy dinner, but very tasty.


Last night, plans changed. I hadn't planned to make dinner, but found myself home and needing to do dinner for two. For a brief moment there was a consideration of ordering in Chinese. Blech! Ah ha! We had a jar of sauce from Trader Joe's...wait...Trader Ming's. *eyes roll* The sauce was a "General Tso's Stir Fry Sauce." Super sweet, but with a nice little tang. Why not.

So I prepped some carrots and sauted them in one tablespoon of olive oil and a hefty pinch of red pepper flakes.

Add in one sliced onion.

Then some chicken. When it's cooked through, add the sauce and a little soy sauce to cut the sweet. When hot and simmering, serve up on rice. It was really satisfying and so much better than ordering in.

2 comments:

The Kara said...

That looks delish - and a nice way to fight the cold. I haven't cooked carrots in a long time and now you're making me re-think (incidentally, if you go to Bucknell College one of the questions on the entrance questionnaire is: do you prefer carrots raw or cooked? I don't know what they glean from that information but there ya go... I usually prefer mine raw for the record but those look good!)

ScottE. said...

When the carrots are cooked right and still have a bit of a bite, they are great! And take flavor really well, as long as you accent their sweetness and don't try to remove it! I will cook you carrots any time babe!