Care & Feeding of the Writer on Deadline
Apr. 12th, 2005 06:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauraanne_gilmanBecause I haven't made a food post in a while...
Wanted something tasty, but light tonight for dinner. And I didn't want to work hard at it. On-hand were some fresh string beans, some garlic, and half of a rotisserie chicken breast carcass.
Perfect.
Slice garlic cloves (I used four, but adjust to taste) and fry up in oil until golden brown. Add broken-up string beans. While they're cooking, shred the pre-cooked chicken and toss into the pan, adding soy sauce to taste (don't overdo it! You want the garlic to be the dominant taste, not the soy sauce!) Add a little cornstarch just to thicken the sauce.
Serve either plain, or over rice. What you'll get is a delicately nutty, slightly sweet meal with both tenderness (the twice-cooked chicken) and crunch (the string beans), and a very appealing color. And it's good for you, too!
(not to mention having bits of cooked garlic to crunch on...yum...)
Takes about ten minutes, total, from peeling the garlic to serving it up.
addendum: and allowing Boomer to lick up the remnants in the bowl makes him happy enough to offer an unsolicited shoulder rub. Gotta love a cat who a) loves garlic and b) believes in (occasionally) earning his keep...
Wanted something tasty, but light tonight for dinner. And I didn't want to work hard at it. On-hand were some fresh string beans, some garlic, and half of a rotisserie chicken breast carcass.
Perfect.
Slice garlic cloves (I used four, but adjust to taste) and fry up in oil until golden brown. Add broken-up string beans. While they're cooking, shred the pre-cooked chicken and toss into the pan, adding soy sauce to taste (don't overdo it! You want the garlic to be the dominant taste, not the soy sauce!) Add a little cornstarch just to thicken the sauce.
Serve either plain, or over rice. What you'll get is a delicately nutty, slightly sweet meal with both tenderness (the twice-cooked chicken) and crunch (the string beans), and a very appealing color. And it's good for you, too!
(not to mention having bits of cooked garlic to crunch on...yum...)
Takes about ten minutes, total, from peeling the garlic to serving it up.
addendum: and allowing Boomer to lick up the remnants in the bowl makes him happy enough to offer an unsolicited shoulder rub. Gotta love a cat who a) loves garlic and b) believes in (occasionally) earning his keep...
