June 28, 2021 Lunch - Vietnamese Miso Chicken Noodle Soup. Dinner - Madras style Chicken Curry with Rice
Today was a three ring circus with explosive activity in each of the three rings.
Starting at 5:30 a.m. I watched stage 3 of the Tour de France. It was a long flat stage with a sprint finish in which two of the favorite sprinters, Caleb Ewan and Peter Sagan crashed into each other 100 meters from the finish line. The Dutch Felix team won the stage with a lead out by the yellow Jersey.
After that excitement the second ring started; the Euro Soccer round of 16 single elimination matches. There were two wonderful matches today, the last of which will be remembered for many years as the best match in years.
The first was Croatia vs. Spain. Spunky little Croatia erased a two goal deficit to send the game to overtime but lost 3 to 5 in overtime.
The next game was incredible, Switzerland vs. France. France won the World Cup last time and was considered the favorite to win this Euro Cup. The Swiss stayed in the game, scoring in the last minute of added time to even the score at 3 to 3 and send the match into overtime like the first game. But this overtime was different, the Swiss hung in and the score was still tied 3 to 3 at the end of the thirty minutes of overtime, which sent the game to a shoot out in which the goalie for each side faces five shooters kicking the ball from the 12 meter penalty spot in succession.
The Swiss won the toss and kicked first and made all five shoots on goal, but when France’s best player, Mbabe, kicked the fifth ball, Sommer, the Swiss goalie, blocked his shot and Switzerland won and advanced to the round of 8 after 120 minutes of play and 9 successful shoot out kicks.
The third area of activity was the stock market. I had a great day in the market. Lots of my stocks went up for lots of different reasons. For example, Crisper went up because a biotech company that uses their MRNA gene splicing technology used by it to alter genes inside the human body to successfully treat patients with a rare genetic disease, instead of modifying the gene outside the human body in the manner the Covid vaccine was created. This medical breakthrough sent Crisper stock up $15.00. Also, Facebook won an antitrust case and its stock went up $15.00. Perhaps those events led a rotation back into high tech. The NASDAQ rose 150 points while the Dow fell 140 points; and my portfolio rose 1.5% sending the NASDAQ and my portfolio to an another all time high.
Vietnamese Miso Chicken Noodle Soup
Food was secondary. I made Vietnamese Miso Chicken Noodle Soup with rice vermicelli noodles, 3 sliced mushrooms and some green beans, seaweed, chicken broth, tofu, 1/2 cup cubed chicken, some sliced onion, a few cubes of yellow zucchini, 1 T. of red miso, and a Vietnamese seasoning cube. I garnished the soup with lime juice, cilantro, and sliced green onion.
Notice that the combination of ingredients creates a flavorful broth.
At 4:00 I rode to the bank and deposited a check and felt fine when I returned home.
When I returned home Suzette had arrived and I began fixing dinner.
Chicken Curry and Rice
Making Curry involves lots of chopping. I peeled and diced 2 sweet potatoes into 1/2 inch cubes. Then I cut 1 1/2 onions, then a head of garlic from our garden.
I began sautéing the above ingredients in 2 T. of canola oil in a large Le Crueset casserole. Then I peeled and diced two Braeburn apples snd added those to the Curry with about 1 T. of Madras Curry powder and 1 tsp. Salt.
I then mixed 2 cups of boiling water with 1 tsp. of Knorr dehydrated chicken broth and added that and 1 cup of raisins.
Rice - I then heated 2 cups of water and 1 tsp. of Knorr dehydrated chicken stock to a boil and addedv1 cup of rice and reduced the heat to the lowest setting o;the smallest burner and simmered the rice for 30 minutes.
I then diced 1 PPI roasted chicken breast into 1/2 inch cubes and added that to the casserole with another 1/2 T. of Curry powder and a dash of Nepalese Timor pepper.
I let the Curry cook covered for 45 minutes until 7:15 when we ate some piled on the cooked rice and I took seconds when Will came at around 7:45.
Suzette fetched beers from the garage. I chopped a cup of roasted peanuts and filled a small bowl with finely grated coconut to garnish the dish. I also fetched the big bottle of Major Grey’s Mango Chutney from the fridge and a bottle of spicy onion pickle and mild lime pickle as extra condiments.
This is the way I have made Curry since I was 25 and taught how to cook Madras Curry by Ajit, one of my fellow workers at Pier 1.
We all loved the Curry. All the ingredients were fully cooked by 7:15 because we had sautéed the hard ingredients in canola oil until they were tender. This is the quick method.
Sometimes when I start with a fresh chicken I follow a different slower method; I boil the chicken and when the meat is cooked in about 1 1/2 hour I added the chopped ingredients to the chicken broth and simmer all the ingredients for an hour, which I call the slow method.
After Willy left after dinner, we watched TB best Montreal in the first game of the Stanley Cup Finals and then watched Antiques Roadshow and went to bed at 10:00.
We have added Collagen and turmeric to our vitamin regime and our joints are feeling a bit better.
Bon Appetit
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