Snow Peas!

I haven't had fresh snow peas for a couple months now, and Jeff brought me some home tonight. Yay! Love those little buggers. We buy them a lot and I don't know why this winter they haven't been available as much, or maybe we just missed them at the store.
I am going to make chicken and snow peas with shredded carrot and red/yellow/orange/green pepper tomorrow. I've been making Asian food for close to 20 years so I have an abundant assortment of sauces and seasonings. Oyster sauce, hoison sauce, chili paste with garlic, black bean paste with chili, ground chilli garlic oil, ground chilli with garlic, spicy crab paste, dried preserved bean with red pepper, hot bean sauce, pepper sa-te' sauce.....Yeah....you can tell I like it hot can't you?
They sound similar to each other but they each have their own unique flavor. And yes, chilli is spelled chilli on some of them. I didn't want you thinking I'd misspelled a word since I'm anal about that and all.... I wouldn't be able to sleep tonight.  Gasp!  ;)


OMG I just watched an episode of Glee and can't believe how corny it is but even worse........I kinda LIKED it!! I have a head cold so let's blame that.


This Spring weather play havoc with the dogs water bowl. There's some bare spots in the yard (yeah it looks like shit) before the weeds grow in and it's all wet mud or slightly wet mud or dried mud. The dogs bury their marrow bones in it then dig them up and get mud in their teeth. Then they come in and gobble water and the water bowl gets dirt in the bottom. Drives me crazy to see it. My babycakes can't drink dirty water!

Sisi's realized she can bully Moj. Female cats are just bitches! LOL Poor Mojo. She skidaddles over to him, then grapples him to the floor. He doesn't even know what hit him! He makes a valiant effort to grapple back but gives up because she's ruthless! Ha!

My head cold's moved to my chest and I'm tired of coughing. Never did get sick though. I've been sick like twice in the last 20 years. And each time it was a year that I had the flu shot. What's up with that? And I don't mean I was sick immediately after the flu shot, I'm talking a couple months. So I don't get it anymore. I think it makes me susceptible.
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Stir-Fried Chicken Breast With Red Bell Peppers and Snow Peas

Serves: 4
Time: 30 minutes

Ingredients:

1/2 pound snow peas, trimmed
2 tablespoons peanut oil
1 pound skinless, boneless chicken breasts, cut crosswise into 1/2-inch-thick strips
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
1 teaspoon sugar
3 garlic cloves, minced
2 strips orange zest, each about 3 inches long
1 large onion, halved and thinly sliced
1 large red bell pepper, quartered, stemmed, seeded, and cut crosswise into thin strips
1 (5-ounce) can sliced water chestnuts, drained
1 teaspoon grated fresh ginger
2 tablespoons bottled teriyaki or hoisin sauce
1/4 teaspoon hot red pepper flakes (optional)
1 tablespoon Asian-style toasted sesame oil
2 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro
4 cups steamed white rice

Directions:

Bring a medium-size saucepan full of water to a boil. Fill a large bowl with ice cubes and water. When the pot of water reaches a boil, add a teaspoon of salt. Add the snow peas and cook 15 seconds, then remove from the boiling water using a skimmer or slotted spoon and transfer to the ice water. Allow the peas to sit in the ice water for a few minutes, then drain.
Heat a wok or a large skillet over high heat. Add the peanut oil. As soon as it is hot enough to swirl easily around the wok, season the chicken strips with salt and pepper to taste, add them to the wok, and cook, stirring continuously, for about 2 minutes. Add the sugar, garlic, orange zest, onion, bell pepper, water chestnuts, and ginger, and continue to stir-fry for 3 minutes more. Add the snow peas, teriyaki or hoisin sauce, optional hot red pepper flakes, and sesame oil. Continue to stir and toss the ingredients until they are evenly coated with the sauce and the snow peas are hot and tender-crisp, 2 to 3 minutes more. Sprinkle on the cilantro and serve hot over steamed rice.
Reprinted from Wolfgang Puck Makes It Easy by Wolfgang Puck.
 

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I'm taking out the cilantro because there is no cilantro in Asian stir fry!! I'm also going to add red chili oil to make it even spicier.

I'm going to merge the two recipes above to create the most delectable dish ever!!! Okay okay, it's just going to be good. Her video is so damned sexy!! Watch her slice that chicken!! That's fuck flick music for sure! hahahahaha!! She pours the sauces so slow that I think she's on Valium! Do people even take valium any more? Okay.....Prozac then! Slooooow me down.....make me fluid and gooshy.
I've never taken it so I can only imagine how it feels.
I love her videos. Me bad to make giggles.

Just a few weeks!!! Memphis here we come! New Orleans here we come!!

Here's my dish. Delish!