Masterchef? I'm better than that.

Okay, this is a terrible photograph, but this is what I had for dinner tonight.

It fed four people, and was constructed from...
2 chicken breasts
1/3 of a bottle of dark soy sauce
baby sweetcorn
half a can of (green giant) sweetcorn
a handful of green beans
a small onion
2 cloves of crushed garlic
a little knob of freshly grated ginger
2 sharwood packs of egg noodles
a little bit of cornflour

Firstly, put your noodles on to boil! DO IT NOW, and they will be DONE by the time you've finished cooking. (It's probably still best to check though, be smart kids.)
While all this is happening, take your onions, which you have thinly sliced because you're smarter than this and don't need me to tell you, and fry them in some delightful vegetable oil.

Take your garlic, after the onions have browned a little, peel it and smush it with the flat of your knife, then add that. Use a TINY grater to grate your little knob of ginger, and add that as well.

Once all this is all fragrant and awesome, chuck in your chicken and stir it around. Turn it over to cook both sides evenly. I'm really terrified of under cooking chicken, so for ages I overcooked it like mad. However, if you poke it with a fork and make sure it bounces, and it's lightly slightly brown but not crazy brown, it'll taste way better than the dry sucky chicken you'd have if you let your paranoia dictate your cooking.

So now the chicken is pretty much cooked, throw in all your vegetables. I almost always have peppers with this, but there were none in the house, so I opted for shitloads of sweetcorn instead. It tastes awesome though. I have no regrets. Don't wait too long before drenching the thing in an awful lot of soy sauce, and adding some cornflour and a little bit of water. The cornflour thickens the mixture to make it more of a viable garlic/ginger/soy sauce than just wet.

Mix in the noodles, and then enjoy it. Well done. You make a really bitchin' stirfry there, son.




In other news, I have very little other news. I've been bored and watching slightly ungodly amounts of Lost (which I'm now caught up with). I'm waiting to hear back about various job applications, and waiting for the majority of my friends to come back from University. It's kind of dull city, but it's okay, because tommorow I'm going for a barbecue and plan on having fun and potentially drinking a little bit.

Looking forward to the rest of your posts :)