About Food and Fones
Alternative title: About Phood and Phones.
First, Food (or is that Phirst, Phood?)
This weekend will be a busy one, so I thought I’d do a Thursday night post for a change. We had a delicious chinese chicken salad for dinner on Monday night, made with Lee Kum Kee Sauce for Chinese Chicken Salad. This is the recipe from the back of the packet:
Lee Kum Kee Chinese Chicken Salad
Ingredients
50g / 2oz cooked chicken meat (torn into shreds)
25g / 1oz carrot (shredded)
120g / 4oz cucumber (shredded)
1 pack Lee Kum Kee Sauce for Chinese Chicken Salad
(Servings: 2-3)Procedure
Put cooked chicken, carrot, cucumber in a salad bowl and chill.
Pour over Lee Kum Kee for Chinese Chicken Salad and mix well.
Serve cold.
Jac seasoned boneless skinless chicken thighs with salt and pepper and panfried them – that was our cooked chicken. We didn’t have any cucumber and Jac likes any excuse to get me to eat as many vegetables as possible, so she used lettuce, cabbage, red capsicum and carrot to make the salad. That chicken salad sauce/dressing was so delicious! It had a wonderful sesame oil aroma and flavour, and yet it had a sweetness that reminded me of hoisin sauce. The salad was light, crisp, fresh and tasty. This was a really easy dinner to prepare – we’ll definitely have it again.
A lazy meal by and for me on Tuesday night: fried sliced SPAM, rice and baked beans.
On Wednesday Jac made fried rice. Sometime ago, she made a special fried rice mix. She fried up some leftover shredded chicken and roast pork with vegetables (carrots, spring onions, cabbage) and put the mixture into freezer bags ready to be thawed to make fried rice. She used that special frozen fried rice mix, cooked rice and added frozen peas and cubes of SPAM to make Wednesday night’s fried rice. She garnished the rice with fried shallots (mmmmm, tasty) and a celery leaf (just for presentation purposes). It was goooood. You never would guess that the fried rice had been made with frozen fried rice mix!
On Wednesday I went to uni as I had a meeting with my supervisor. I finally unpacked my stuff and officially “moved” into my new desk. For lunch I had curry chicken, black bean chicken and rice. I fell asleep at my new desk a couple of times after lunch. Yep, I’m all settled in now.
Last night’s dinner was noodle soup with chinese veg, fresh pork balls (no seasoning, just balls of pork, which is how my sister Juji likes to make them), cooked chicken and rice noodles. Jac made a pot of chicken stock (yes, using real chicken), but because there wasn’t quite enough (it wasn’t a very big pot) she combined it with some Campbell’s Real Chicken Stock. The result was a tasty broth with lots of delicious things in it. Jac added a drizzle of sesame oil just before serving. I had another bowl of this tasty noodle soup for my breakfast this morning. Another one we’ll make again.
Second, Fones (or Phones)
I recently got a letter from my mobile provider offering great deals and phone upgrade options because I’ve been such a loyal customer (well, I have! I’ve been with them for over five years, that’s pretty loyal in this day and age, don’t you think?). I rang them on Monday, agreed to a new plan that will give me three times more included calls than I currently get for only a dollar more per month than I am paying now (heh, hope you could follow that!) – I’m now waiting for my new Nokia 6131 to arrive. I told Jac she can have my current phone (Nokia 6230) if she’d like it. She’s had a prepaid Motorola phone that’s been driving her crazy lately, so I think she’ll take my old phone quite happily. I’ve bought a Mock mobile sock for my new phone, and I’ve also bought a Krusell case via eBay. Sock (or rather, mock) phone or leather phone, I haven’t decided. Either way, my phone will be well-dressed and protected.
Have a look at these Mocks. Can you guess which one I’ve picked for my new phone?