Category: Personal

So in our seemingly never-ending quest to eat the remainder of the food in our possession before we move, I present to you Jason’s Back of the Fridge Stir Fry:

Ingredients
Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast or Tenders
Frozen Broccoli
Mixed Frozen Veggies
Dash of Oil
Peanut Butter
Chef Morimoto Sesame Soy Sauce
Chef Morimoto Chili Miso Sauce
White Rice
One Egg
Dried Shitake Mushrooms
Cornstarch or Arrowroot

Procedure
Boil or Steam Rice, and allow to cool for several minutes. Beat egg, and fold into rice. Heat oil in a pan, and fry the rice while folding in 3-4 tablespoons of Morimoto Sesame Soy Sauce. Season with Salt or more Soy Sauce. Set aside.

Clean pan (we’re so packed, that we’ve only the one pan). Soak the dried mushrooms in about 1/2 cup of hot water. Stir fry the chicken, mushrooms and veggies with just a touch of the Sesame Soy. Reserve the water from the mushrooms.

When the chicken is done, remove the stir fry from the pan and deglaze with the water from the mushrooms (minus a tablespoon), 2 tablespoons soy,
3 tablespoons of the Chili Miso. Add 1/4 cup of peanut butter or so, and stir ’til dissolved. Make a slurry of the cornstarch and the left over water, and stir in slowly to thicken the sauce.

Make a base of the fried rice, add the stir fry, and spoon liberally with sauce. Enjoy.

For the 4th of July, there were many happenings. Here’s the story in pictures:

There was watermelon, and a great time in the Carrboro Town Commons…	…where there was also a quite excellent bluegrass band, the Lonesome River Band.
Later in the weekend, there was hanging out and eating way too much guacamole with Jean at her pool.	And of course, there were fireworks. Click the pic for a short movie of some from the Durham Bulls Stadium.

My best effort at myself, using the always fun South Park Character Generator.

…to the wilds of TN. Pictures soon to follow!

Betsy and I are heading to TN yet again this weekend, to (hopefully) visit our new house. New address and such forthcoming as soon as everything is official. Blogging at a lull until next week, probably…maybe some updates from TN (with pictures of the new place!).

Lots of driving, but the prospect of driving when you have all the music you own being broadcast wirelessly to your radio…ah, technology. I love ya like I love monkeys. I’ve decided, after careful consideration, that I like my iPod only slightly less than I like breathing and speaking. Thanks again to all who made it possible. 🙂

I find all I want to do is sleep. 🙂 I should be doing about a billion things (not the least of which is finishing the article from the Master’s Paper), but somehow all enthusiasm is gone for the moment.

I guess I should just revel in the week, and sleep. Betsy keeps telling me I deserve it, so it must be true. Right?