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Made Soy Sauce Chicken tonight!
May. 4th, 2007 12:21 amSo, I had some leftover chicken that I hadn't eaten yet and since they were these legs with thighs attached, I really didn't know what to do with them at all. I had originally bought them for soup but since I wasn't in the mood to make soup that usually lasts a week in my last week of school, I decided to do what I always do with chicken -- make soy sauce chicken. It's so easy, even if not too fast but the fact that it's so simple and you could just leave it on the stove while it cooks makes up for it.
I didn't have much soy sauce left so I contemplated what I should do. I had four pieces of chicken so there was a lot and normally that would mean lots of soy sauce to give the chicken enough flavor. That's when I started thinking and I remembered that I had a lot of soy sauce packets saved up. Every time I order sushi or Chinese food, they always give you these soy sauce packets and I've had a good many saved up. So I tore each of them and used them in my soy sauce chicken. I thought it was awfully creative of me. ^^
Anyway, that and some water, lots of sugar and about forty minutes later, I had some yummy chicken that I could eat for dinner. It's soo easy that I don't know why Diana feels scared of making it. You really don't need to do much at all and it works out every single time. And you're left with this yummy sauce that you can eat with rice. Since the chicken was cooked in it, it has a nice, riche deep taste. Ah, thinking about it makes me hungry again...
I made the four pieces of chicken and I ate two for dinner tonight. Tomorrow I'm going to make shrimp stir fry with the rest of my shrimp and with the packet of stir fry veggies that I bought at Trader Joes. It'll be a nice easy and quick meal. I can't wait. I love cooking -- well, when I have time for it. And I love it when it works and everything tastes yummy.
Right now I'm listening to Brett Dennen's Ain't No Reason which I had first heard on Scrubs a while back (it was the episode where Perry was trying to convince Laverne that things don't happen for a reason and in the end he was the one was convinced, until Laverne ended up in a coma... I had liked it back then but I didn't really think too much about it at all... Not until yesterday at least. I had missed Tuesday's episode of House so I had downloading it instead and right at the very end where Foreman was telling House that he didn't want to become him, this was the song that was playing in the background and it really struck me then, even more so than when I first heard it on Scrubs and I knew I had to have it.
So I went and downloaded and now I have it. ^^ I love the internet. And I love how you can fall in love with a song, go online and find it almost immediately. Not all songs are like this but when it works out, I'm always extremely happy.
And this song has some wonderful lyrics. I don't think I agree with all them (it suggests that some people don't have reasons for what they do and that there's some sort of higher power and I'm totally against it) but I can like this song despite that.
My favorite lines have to be:
People walk a tightrope on a razor's edge
Carrying their hurt and hatred and weapons
It could be a bomb or a bullet or a pen
Or a thought or a word or a sentence
There ain't no reason why things are this way
It's how they've always been and they intend to stay
That and the image of a pigeon with a broken wing in a window is really vivid. I love it when a song can invoke vivid images within me. Brett Dennen is supposedly a folk singer and this is a folk song but seeing as I really don't know much about folk music besides a vague idea of it, I can't really say if it's a typical folk song. I can say that this is a rather nice song and I probably wouldn't have labeled it folk had I not known Brett Dennen was a folk singer.
edit x1: Oh my god, I just was looking at the Wikipedia page for Brett Dennen and apparently Ain't No Reason was also in this week's episode of The Unit! I saw this week's episode of The Unit too! I watched it in lieu of House actually since FOX was acting spotty on me (damn NYUTV and their notoriously bad FOX channel!). I don't remember this song being use... Actually, maybe it was and I wasn't playing too much attention because I was frantically studying for Physics... Hmm...
I didn't have much soy sauce left so I contemplated what I should do. I had four pieces of chicken so there was a lot and normally that would mean lots of soy sauce to give the chicken enough flavor. That's when I started thinking and I remembered that I had a lot of soy sauce packets saved up. Every time I order sushi or Chinese food, they always give you these soy sauce packets and I've had a good many saved up. So I tore each of them and used them in my soy sauce chicken. I thought it was awfully creative of me. ^^
Anyway, that and some water, lots of sugar and about forty minutes later, I had some yummy chicken that I could eat for dinner. It's soo easy that I don't know why Diana feels scared of making it. You really don't need to do much at all and it works out every single time. And you're left with this yummy sauce that you can eat with rice. Since the chicken was cooked in it, it has a nice, riche deep taste. Ah, thinking about it makes me hungry again...
I made the four pieces of chicken and I ate two for dinner tonight. Tomorrow I'm going to make shrimp stir fry with the rest of my shrimp and with the packet of stir fry veggies that I bought at Trader Joes. It'll be a nice easy and quick meal. I can't wait. I love cooking -- well, when I have time for it. And I love it when it works and everything tastes yummy.
Right now I'm listening to Brett Dennen's Ain't No Reason which I had first heard on Scrubs a while back (it was the episode where Perry was trying to convince Laverne that things don't happen for a reason and in the end he was the one was convinced, until Laverne ended up in a coma... I had liked it back then but I didn't really think too much about it at all... Not until yesterday at least. I had missed Tuesday's episode of House so I had downloading it instead and right at the very end where Foreman was telling House that he didn't want to become him, this was the song that was playing in the background and it really struck me then, even more so than when I first heard it on Scrubs and I knew I had to have it.
So I went and downloaded and now I have it. ^^ I love the internet. And I love how you can fall in love with a song, go online and find it almost immediately. Not all songs are like this but when it works out, I'm always extremely happy.
And this song has some wonderful lyrics. I don't think I agree with all them (it suggests that some people don't have reasons for what they do and that there's some sort of higher power and I'm totally against it) but I can like this song despite that.
My favorite lines have to be:
People walk a tightrope on a razor's edge
Carrying their hurt and hatred and weapons
It could be a bomb or a bullet or a pen
Or a thought or a word or a sentence
There ain't no reason why things are this way
It's how they've always been and they intend to stay
That and the image of a pigeon with a broken wing in a window is really vivid. I love it when a song can invoke vivid images within me. Brett Dennen is supposedly a folk singer and this is a folk song but seeing as I really don't know much about folk music besides a vague idea of it, I can't really say if it's a typical folk song. I can say that this is a rather nice song and I probably wouldn't have labeled it folk had I not known Brett Dennen was a folk singer.
edit x1: Oh my god, I just was looking at the Wikipedia page for Brett Dennen and apparently Ain't No Reason was also in this week's episode of The Unit! I saw this week's episode of The Unit too! I watched it in lieu of House actually since FOX was acting spotty on me (damn NYUTV and their notoriously bad FOX channel!). I don't remember this song being use... Actually, maybe it was and I wasn't playing too much attention because I was frantically studying for Physics... Hmm...
