Thursday, October 29, 2009

Legend of Fall(Squash)-- Hey, we miss your smile

Spaghetti Squash+ Shredded Chicken with Korean Spicy/Sweet Sauce



The motivation to smile:

It was actually a while ago, one day, a friend at work gtalked to me, said I was one of few people that smiled at work and they missed that. Beside flattered, I felt guilty at that moment, because I hadn't smiled for long. I think my friend must be very disappointed if he got to know I didn't smile too much during that time. So I just turned around and smiled at myself in the mirror. And from then on, when I am rushing around, I will remember to stop for a second and make a smile, because I know there might be some people somewhere talking about gaogao, the girl who likes smile'. It is such a pleasant fact that can make me smile itself and as well as it turns out to be a motivation for me to smile at the life...

Theorem about happiness:
Lemma: Doing exercises is a treatment for weeping , because tears will be transferred to sweater and be taken out from your body. Based on the lamma, it can be inferred that people that do exercises regularly tend not to to cry very much, therefore: people that do exercises are happier!
(I like this deduction!)
Does that also mean people are more tough in the summer than in the winter?


Recommended medication:
Deep breath + ice cream, and ...............................cook
Then magically, you will find you can smile again.

This is a spaghetti squash topped with Korean chili sauce chicken.
After I made hot chili chicken, I looked up many Chinese website and tried to find out the best way to stir –fried meat, so this dish is for experimenting.
Actually the way I did it last time is not very correct, but it still turned out good.
The correct way is :

1. Rinse the meat in the starch water+wine, but NOT dry flour. It will help to keept the juice in the meat, while dry flour/ starch will absorb more water from meat.
2. Heat the wok until very hot
3. Pour into enough oil, so that meat can swim in it( it sounds greasy but you don’t have to eat all the oil)
4. Heat the oil to medium temperature but NOT very hot. Then add the meat, and let the meat and the oil heated together. Other wise, under a high temperature the outside of the meat is cooked right away but inside still takes some time , and then the outside will be dried out.
5. Take meat out and sit aside.

Korean Chili Sauce:
Korean sauce can be identified solely by the color of the box, no language required 
Red: Spicy, used for bibimbap
Green : Not spicy, used as BBQ dip sauce( not marinade)
Yellow: Soybean paste

This sauce has: red/green/yellpw box sauce, sugar, a little bit wine, ginger, scallion, garlic, oyster sauce(I don't have it on hand)
Cooking :
When everything is ready.
1. Cook chicken->, take them out, put it on the side
2. Cook garlic/ginger/some red color vegetable(red pepper, carrot)(I didn't have it on hand) , add sauce
3. Put chicken back
4. Quick stir, done

Spaghetti squash: Put garlic in the squash, spread with olive oil, then bake them together,(Garlic lover, you know what happened in the kitchen, right?)  about 30-40min
After it’s done, cool aside, mix with sesame oil and scallion before serving.

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