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Submitted by Agatha
So, you are hanging out on your own. Your son is partying with his mother at your Aunt's. This *could* happen to those of you in Internetland. What do you eat under these circumstances? Hopefully something you can whip up quickly while finishing up the morning dishes. This recipe is perfect for that. It will be even easier for you because you don't have to take digital pictures at every step and format into HTML.
First off, you need to start some rice. Generally, cook rice with one part rice and two parts water. I used about 3/4 of a cup for this meal. I used white rice because I wanted to be *bad* today. It felt good, and tasted good, but I strongly recommend that you be *good* and use brown rice. Put the rice on high in a sauce pan with the cover off:
I'm warning you. At this point, *do not go down to the basement and work on whatever random website strikes your fancy*. You will just melt the bottom of the pan, turn the rice black, and set off the smoke alarm. You risk setting your house on fire if you do this, so don't. If you have something on high, *stay in the kitchen*. This is one of the first geek cooking rules. Follow it and save your pans from a horrible death. Anyhoo... stay in the kitchen while the rice is on high. I used a frozen, boneless chicken breast. You can get them cheap in bags from Costco. Put the chicken breast in a cast iron grill pan on medium and cover it:
When the rice is boiling:
put the lid on:
turn the rice to low:
cook the chicken on medium:
Of course, the temperatures will vary. Thing is, I've lived:
Oly, WA TESC dorms, electric stove
Oly, WA w/ Landlady's Handyman, electric stove
Oly, WA w/ CJ (Cowboy Jock) Roomate, electric stove
Oly, WA Cabin on Mingo's farm (Hobbitat... 12x12... no water, electricity, but gas stove)
Oly, WA TESC mods, electric stove
Seattle, WA w/ Shanty and friends, electric stove
Auburn, WA w/ Grups, electric stove
Oly, WA, Van on Mingo's farm (no water, electricity, but gas tabletop stove)
Oly, WA, Phlegm house (punk house), electric stove
Oly, WA, Church of toast and beer (punk house), electric stove
Oly, WA->Taos, NM-> Eugene, OR back of '84 Mazda truck, coleman gas stove
Eugene, OR Portland street, electric stove
Eugene, OR French Quarter, electric stove
Eugene, OR West 11th, electric stove
Eugene, OR 8th ST, electric stove
Eugene, OR Royal Ave, electric stove (old one from in back of the pie shop)
Eugene, OR Ferry, electric stove
Eugene, OR Patterson (amazon housing), electric stove
Eugene, OR 12 st, electric stove
Seattle, WA 21st (CD), electric stove
Seattle, WA 37th (West Seattle), electric stove
Seatac, WA off Mil Road, electric stove (the one you see in the picture)
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In all cases, setting the rice at high, and turning to low covered, cooks the rice just fine. I've probably cooked more brown rice than white rice over the years. A neighbor when I was in the truck in Eugene, cooking, in this case, on the electric stove in the apartment (and an electric pan... i was making a lot of food), commented that white rice didn't have nutrition. I borrowed a huge stainless bowl from him to cook the white rice in, but I didn't give it back, and used it as a toolbox to fix the 55 GMC and Rambler. I'm wandering a bit, but *the point is* that low should work fine for a temperature.
Now, I used a stainless steel pan in this recipe, but a cast iron dutch oven works pretty well, also. And, if you aren't eating meat, cast iron is good because, well, you get iron that way. Keep an eye on the chicken. Turn it when it changes color over most of the top. We aren't ready yet:
Here we go. Turn the chicken. It should be the same color on the sides:
The rice is done when the water is gone. Make sure you leave the lid on as much as possible. Look at the steam and check it based on that. If you open the lid all of the time, you will dry out the rice. You can shove the rice to the side at the bottom of the pan to see when it is done:
Notice how the chicken is cooked all of the way through:
Here are three sauces that I'll combine to make, what I call, spicysauce. See how spicysauce is one word? I meant to do that... spicysauce. The sauce on the left is chili garlic sauce. A million brands for all of these are available. The center sauce is black bean garlic sauce, and the one on the right is rooster sauce, really, but they didn't have rooster sauce at Ranch 99, so it is just goose sauce, I guess, which is confusing and disturbing to me. Technically, I suppose, this is Sriracha sauce, which is a city in Thailand. In the past I've always used the Huy Fong version, which is from California:
Mix all three in equal parts:
We have lunch:
Add some veggies or a vitamin, or something as well.
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