Showing posts with label rambles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rambles. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Cooking adventures

So, in my cooking adventures tonight, I made Orange chicken!  Sort of.

Ingredients
Three skinless, boneless chicken breasts
Probably three or four oranges worth of freshly squeezed orange juice
A dash of powdered ginger
A glop of honey
Some oil
A sprinkle of flour
A little bit of soy sauce

So I started by thawing the chicken, cause it was really, really solid.  Took like, fifteen minutes.  
Then my boyfriend and I cut it up all neat and nice.  
He's very particular about food.  
He cut off all the "bad" parts, fat, whiteish parts, reddish parts, all that jazz, off of all three breasts, and it ended up being about the equivalent of one small chicken breast.  
Anywho, cut it into bite sized pieces, toss it in a pan with the oil, to make sure the chicken doesn't stick or anything, and cook that with much stirring until the chicken is all cooked.  
Then put your glop of honey, your soy sauce, your orange juice, your dash of powdered ginger, and your sprinkle of flour into a bowl and mix it up.  Now add dashes and globs of all these ingredients until it's the saucy consistency you want, and the flavor you want, and mix it all in with your chicken.  

Congratulations!  You now have sort-of orange chicken!  Is it delicious?  Good job.  Mine turned out pretty well, but I think I'm going to make it again on another night off and do some experimenting.  
Lemme know how it turns out if you try it!

Just warning, this is very much my style of cooking.  
I don't usually do a ton of measuring, so when I write things down they're going to be in estimated amounts, not actual measurements.
Have fun deciphering!

Maybe cookies tomorrow night?  Or I guess tonight...being on nights is confusing sometimes.
Anywho, goodnight for now!  

Ciao
SheWhoMustWearHats

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Interesting developments

Good morning my lovelies.
So, a very interesting thing happened today. 
I work for a company, but am actually employed with a staffing company.
I worked with them seasonal last year, and was rehired a few weeks ago. 
Now, I got an email from the company, to schedule a time to convert from working for the staffing company, to actually working for the company. 

My problem is, I don't really like the job.  Yesterday I decided I'd start looking for work elsewhere, and today I get this email and schedule the appointment.
I mean, I didn't even think I was doing well enough for them to consider converting me.
I guess I am, though...
It's not like it's a contract job, so I can still look for a different job, but this is a pretty good first non-seasonal job.  They have good benefits, it's not minimum wage..
I suppose I'll just live with it unless I find something that's actually better.

Well, thanks for listening.  That's it for right now.  Gonna do some cooking tonight, so I'll post again later.

Ciao
SheWhoMustWearHats