Submitted by Agatha
It is hard to find a quick meal that doesn't have too much fat, doesn't create an equal amount of waste in packaging to the food itself, and is nutritious. Here is my approach to this problem.
This recipe makes about 20 meals.
First, cook up a bunch of rice. I use a quart pyrex container, fill it a little under half full of brown rice, and then fill it up to the top with white rice:
I add this and another two overflowing pyrex containers of water to a big stock pot, cover, bring to a boil, and then turn down the temperature to medium heat until the rice is *almost* tender:
While the rice is cooking, I take two trays of chicken breasts (about 12 pounds) and cut them up into chunks:
I put them into some nice, heavy cast iron skillets, and cover them. It takes quite a bit of heat to cook this chicken, and make sure you cook that chicken well so you don't get sick from Salmonella. The chicken should be cooked completely through. Make sure you wash everything that touched the raw chicken with antibacterial soap and warm water. Strange that we live in an age where our food is treated as toxic waste:
When the rice is done, it should still be a wee bit undercooked. The rice will cook more after you take it out of the pot. I like to spread the rice out on a tray to cool it off, so it doesn't cook any more. Ummmm... use a tray without
paint on it. I ended up wrecking this tray after a few batches of meals... very sad:
Put some water in the rice pot and start it boiling. I like to use Vegetable Medley, which are 3.5 pound bags of cut up, fresh, vegetables that I can get at Costco. 3 bags will do it:
The chicken is cooking up nicely, and don't those veggies look colorful? You just want to cook the vegetables a wee bit. They should still be crunchy, not soft:
Assembly of the meals: a little rice in the bottom, then some chicken, then fill up the rest with veggies:
So, waddaya think Fox Mulder would say about the entities sneaking up in back of my meals:
I do like Yoshida's Teriyaki sauce. To save a little money, though, I fill up an empty Yoshida's container a little over half full with warm water, add about a third of a cup of sugar, some rice vinegar, and a third of a container of Kikkoman soy sauce. I take the "meal" out of the freezer and put it in the microwave for about 15 minutes. Then, I squeeze lots of Sriracha "rooster sauce" on the top of the meal, add my teriyaki sauce, and mmmm... nice meal. Rooster sauce has a home on the web: http://www.huyfong.com/ :
Enjoy.
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