Here's What I Had For Dinner - Part III - Don't quote pics!

Chow mein tonight, all made from scratch (I do one weekly at least)

Chicken for us carnivores.




And tofu for the vegetarian in the house.



Extremely easy to make, healthy, and can be made from scratch on no time.

And yes, that's steam rising from the wok in the pictures. (In case you're wondering)

Anyone wants the method/ingredients let me know.

leahyl wrote: »

Hey Johnny Dogs, that looks great, I don’t normally cook Chinese food and haven’t eaten much of it in my life but I do like chow mein - could you give the recipe? It looks very tasty

No worries.

This can be adjusted according to taste (extra chillis etc) but this is the gist of it, the most time consuming part is preparing the base/veg.

Base
(Finely chop/mince all of the following and mix well together)
1 X chilli (add more or less according to your taste) seeds in or out depending if you want heat.
3 cloves of garlic, finely diced
About half a thumb sized piece of ginger, finely diced
A few scallions, finely chopped
A handful of corriander, rip off stems and finely chop (keep the rest)

Chicken, or whatever meat you prefer

A few florets of broccoli
A few peppers finely sliced.

A couple of tbs of dark soy sauce

Some Chinese five spice
Some Thai seven spice
A large spoonful of honey.
Juice from a ripe lime

Nest of egg noodles per 2 people.

Boil a kettle, cover a nest of noodles with boiling water, add in your broccoli florets, and cover in a saucepan.

Get your pan/wok really, really hot, while it's heating up, finely slice the chicken. When the pan is easy, add a bit of oil, and throw in your chicken, and fry until cooked.

Throw in your base ingredients and ensure the meat is well coated, then add a spoon of soy.

Add in your peppers, and cook until slightly soft.

Remove florets of broccoli from pot, and stirfry well together, add in some Chinese five spice according to taste.

Drain noodles, and add to wok.

Add more soy sauce if you feel it needs it.

When everything looks ready, add the lime juice, stir well, then add honey, stir well again, and add some Thai seven spice.

Add rest of corriander if you like.

Whole thing can be cooked in under twenty mins, and it's nicer than your local takeaway. Healthier too.

Baked potatoes, spicy barbecued beans with my local butchers specially made sausages (pork and leak, they're good) slow roasted with onions and some of Aldis sirracha slaw for good measure.

A small repast of a moy park chicken kiev, half a banana and a handful of dark chocolate raisins

Had another batch of beef stew from dizzy blondes slow cooker recipe.



Yes, that's a wok I cook it in, but I find that the wok is the perfect thing to brown the meat (which I do in batches then followed by the veg/stock etc before returning the meat to the wok) , and then hold all the ingredients before transferring to the slow cooker.

Mine is made with steak pieces and mince, and it was so so good.

Gloomtastic! wrote: »

^ What’s the difference between Irish Fries and Syrian Fries?

They were cubed for starters, and dusted with a spice of some sort, not unlike Patatas bravas.

Baked potato with plentiful butter ( irish of course), quiche, and webbs lettuce.. Then home made sponge custard with lashings of freshly made blackberry jam, from fruit still in the freezer.

Noon dinner here... Large baked Rooster, garden greens ( leaves of broccoli and first of the new kale) and bacon... all home cooked.... simply delicious and sustaining.

Delicious noon main meal.... Baked rooster potato , what we called "fried cheese" in my long ago childhood, ie cheese slowly melted in water, traditionally in a frying pan, and i whizzed an egg into it... side salad of chopped webbs and grated apple. Pleasantly replete....

One of these days I will remember I now have a camera but i was very hungry indeed!