March 20, 2014 Chicken Fried Rice

March 20, 2014 Chicken Fried Rice

I was thinking about a simple stir fried dinner because Suzette was busy at work and I had a busy day also, so I thawed out a package of two or three chicken breasts. And a bag of root vegetables I found in the freezer after lunch.

Suzette called and said she was going to have a late meeting at work at 6:00, so when I got home around 6:00 I took three bottles of Fever Tree tonic water over to the Palmers and interrupted them in their shop where Charlie was finishing a part on his new model airplane ans Susan was sewing a new quilt.

We had gin and tonics and Susan set a lovely table of appetizers for us that included smoked lax, capers and slices of lemon, sourdough baguette slices, potato chips, a family recipe cream cheese dip, cream cheese, Boursin herbed cheese and slices of fresh carrot and cauliflower.

 

After about two hours of conversation and noshing and gin and tonics, including Susan and Charlie’s extremely high recommendation of the new movie, “Tim’s Vermeer” we walked home.

   

We were stuffed and tired when we came home but Suzette wanted a hot meal, so she cut up the chicken and two or three green onions and stirred and fried two eggs into a pancake that she then sliced into pieces in the wok and put aside.

I got a can of sliced water chestnuts out and chopped up the last two baby bok choy and Suzette chopped up a quarter sized piece of ginger and fetched the PPI rice from the fridge.

She then stir fried the chicken and ginger until the chicken changed from pink to white.  Then Suzette added the rice and water chestnuts and stir fried the mixture for a minute or two.  Then we added the white portions of the bok choy and some sesame oil and Szechwan pepper oil and stir fried all that for a minute and then added the green portion of the bok choy and some Chinese rice Cooking wine and stir fried that by turning the mixture until the green leaves were submerged under the other ingredients and cooked into the mixture.   Suzette then added the pieces of egg back to the mixture and we stirred the egg in and we were ready to eat.  I fetched a couple of bears from the garage.

   

In a matter of minutes we had assembled a passably decent hot, one dish meal including vegetables, meat and rice.

After we finished eating we still had a half wok full of fried rice for another meal that I put up and we fell into bed for a good night’s sleep. 

Bon Appétit