Photo/s of the day.

[moonvoice]

Because I was too busy cooking, this is the only preparation shot that I got.






This is the honey, sesame and garlic chicken sauce. Nom.





Then I went to see what the cats were doing because they were being conspicuously silent.





Then I made a plum sweet and sour chicken sauce. Nom.





And then I packaged it alllll up to put in the freezer so that I can exercise my 'Right to be Lazy' and not cook healthy, tasty, awesome meals every night. Huzzah for defrosting. Highly recommend it all be served with basmati or wholegrain rice. The end!

Comments

[silverjackal]

Both your chicken dishes look very tasty indeed! I also like your stackable containers. Mine are more a miscellany, and I really should invest in some good glass containers that seal. (I'm picky about what plastic I use, because often I can smell it or taste in on the food.)

The cat photo made me laugh out loud. They're both so "What?" :D

[moonvoice]

I just buy them in 4-packs when they're on special, but I don't know if you have something like that where you are.

The cat photo made me laugh out loud. They're both so "What?" :D

They really are. I was trying to get them both facing forward looking at the same thing at the same time, and then they both looked at me in *that* way at the same time.

[silverjackal]

I've seen them occasionally, but haven't seen a packet of containers together on sale. Then again, I haven't spent concerted time looking either.

[elialshadowpine]

That looks yummeh.

Are the sauces homemade or storebought?

Cause if homemade, I will totally make big blinky kitty eyes for the recipe. :)

[moonvoice]

It's home-made, but I am laaaazy about recipes that have more than 15-20 ingredients, so I don't tend to post them. I also don't work off recipes and do it all organically. I really should post some though, some time. I know I posted a beef + palm sugar recipe once upon a time.

That's here: http://moonvoice.dreamwidth.org/595240.html

Though I should probably tweak it since I do it differently now.

[ariestess]

Both of those dishes sound so damned yummeh!

[gone_fishing]

OM NOM NOM NOM. It looks and sounds delicious.

[paleo]

There is something amazingly awesome about having good food stocked away. This post is inspiring, actually.

[kath_ballantyne]

They look wonderful.
Cooking has become much more pleasant now we have a kitchen with a table I can sit at and chop stuff.

I managed to get a big batch of pasta sauce made the other day but I should get more done. We used to eat an awful lot more chicken but since we wont buy the stuff that isn't free range any more we don't have it nearly as much.
I do feel like a really good chicken stirfry though.

What do you use for the plum in the sweet and sour?

[moonvoice]

What do you use for the plum in the sweet and sour?

Plums. I generally purchase a small amount (since I don't actually like them on their own), usually about four or five, and then stew them down with a bit of pineapple juice (from a tin of pineapple pieces), a bit of sugar and honey, and a little bit of water. That generally forms the fruity acidic base of the sweet and sour. Sometimes I'll add a dash of lime juice as well. :)

And I only use free-range chicken as well. Can't justify buying any other kind now.

[urbanimal]

Do you have a recipe for the honey, sesame and garlic sauce you are willing to share? I must eat it!

[moonvoice]

I don't work from recipes unfortunately, I make everything from scratch. I find recipes time consuming to write (which is probably why I don't use them), but as a couple of people have asked, I might try and find the time. No promises though!

[toeknuckles]

lol. I love your kitties. 8-)

[spider_fox]

I've never freezed food before, just put them in the fridge for a few days. When you take them back out, do you just let it defrost and then heat it up in the microwave, or do you have to do things differently depending on the food?

[moonvoice]

I tend to just take it out, let it defrost in the microwave (cats will get to stuff on the bench) and then reheat in the microwave later. It doesn't take long. All anti-microwavers would probably be like; 'oh noes!', but it's one of the few ways I actually get any healthy dinners on a regular basis. I just don't like cooking every day.

[spider_fox]

Anti-microwavers? That's a new one, though I suppose there's anti-anything people out there nowadays.

[white_rabbit]

Goddamn, I am terribly hungry now. That looks AMAZING! Also the freezing idea is great. I do the same thing when I make stews and such. :) Yummy!

[moonvoice]

I love freezing. I used to pre-make huge batches of pasta and freeze everything - sauce and pasta. But it was clunky in the freezer. So I just make leaner Asian cuisine sauces now, depending, and freeze those without any starches. That way I can decide if I want noodles or rice when it's all defrosted and stuff. :)

[drgnhlr]

Yummy, yummy looking foods! Silly kitties!

very nice post...:P

[donnalotus]

Yum!!!! Looks fantastic! I can't wait to be really settled into the house in Lakes and start doing this sort of stuff.

[1_1_11]

Mouth literally watering. Damn.