Friday, February 12, 2010

Adventures in cooking


The dish that I had prepared for dinner one night was Chinese stir-fry. I put chicken, carrots, water chestnuts, pea pods, soy sauce, garlic and green onions in it. I also made rice to go with the stir-fry and started it first, puting the rice and water in a pot and cooking for 15 minutes while I prepared the other ingredients.



First I cut the carrots into small pieces and then boiled them in a pot of water for 3 minutes. Next I cut the garlic into very small pieces, cut the stems off of the pea pods, and sliced up the green onions. After that, I cut the chicken up into 1-inch pieces. Then I opened the can of sliced water chestnuts. Now all of my ingredients were ready.



I then got out a wok pan to put the cooking oil and garlic in and turned the stove on. Then I added the green onions and cooked them for 1 minute and removed them to a bowl.





I then added the water chestnuts and carrots to the pan and stir-fried them for several minutes. Then these were removed to a bowl and the chicken was put into the pan, one half at a time. Each half of the chicken was stir-fried for 3 minutes. I had to add more oil and it was popping up at me.




All of the ingredients were now put into the pan with the soy sauce and mixed well. The pan was covered and cooked for 4 minutes. It was starting to smell good now. The rice was also finished now.




My mom and I had the stir-fry for dinner. I put some rice and the stir-fry on each plate. It looked pretty good and tasted good too.




This is Nicholas’ mom. I ate the stir-fry that he made for dinner. It was very good and the vegetables were all nicely done. I love spicy Thai food, so next time I would want to use a spicier sauce, maybe some ginger.

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