Day 364: Salt & Pepper Chicken

“We all like chicken”

I tried making a new dish today, after having something that tasted very nice at the Pub last week. Salt & Pepper Chicken! We began with dicing up all the ingredients, finding lots of things in the cupboard to throw in, and chopping up the chicken. Therefore there isn’t a specific recipe…but honestly it tasted so good, so here goes!

• Chicken Fillets
• 1 Cup of flour (this is an english ‘cup’ so an actual mug, not an American measuring of a cup!)
• 1 teaspoon of chinese five spice
• 2 teaspoons of salt
• 2 teaspoons of ground black pepper
• 2 teaspoons of garlic granules or 1 clove of fresh garlic

• A sprinkling of ginger chopped up finely
• Spring Onions chopped up finely
• 2 Red Peppers chopped finely
• 1 green chilli and 1 red chilli de-seeded and chopped up small

Firstly cut your chicken into strips, fairly thin ones, but not too thin! Then mix the spices, salt, pepper, garlic and flour together in a bowl and add the strips of chicken, coating them well in the mixture. Mix together your ginger, spring onions, red peppers and chilli and fry them together separately with some chilli flakes and coriander. Fry your chicken in a small amount of oil in a very hot pan until it’s golden and crispy. Gradually add to the pan with the mixed vegetables in until you have a huge stir fry type dish.

We served ours up with spaghetti/pasta strands and it went down really well! Keep aside some spare peppers and spring onion in case yours did what mine did, and completely disappear in the frying process! Finally, wash hands before touching eyes – chilli hurts!

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Day 358: Gingerbread Men (And Lady)

“We’re the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, but we eat the little bastards alive.”
― Orson Scott Card

In the Spirit of Christmas – baking was undertaken and so the Gingerbread were born! The recipe used was a fairly simple one from the BBC – you can find it here if interested. Only we used salted Butter as we didn’t have any unsalted, and we neglected to put the pepper in which was optional anyway.

The biscuits consistency didn’t appear that promising, but with much rolling of the rolling pin, they turned out okay in the end! More flour was added as we went along to aid with everything too, possibly too much flour..!

The decorations, well they are an acquired taste. We made cute gingerbread people and then one had it’s leg fall off and some red smeared on it, so of course it became a zombie child. Fantastic!

Then there were ones decorated like snowmen, ones without a decorated purpose, and of course the inspiration behind it all – the gingerbread man toy from the kitchen! Sadly, none of them turned out like that one.

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