Simple Meals

Lauren got me to thinking that putting out recipes for blogging idea is a good one. So here are some simple recipes that our family has been making for some time now. Many of these simple foods are good for when you are homebound due to colds or have flu symptoms. They are fairly mild and warms the tummy.

GINGER CHICKEN

Ingredients:

1 whole chicken, cut up in pieces, with the skin
1 clump of ginger (about 2-3 square inches), skinned and sliced cross wise about 1/2 inch pieces
salt and pepper to taste

Put the entire ingredients into a stew pot and add water so that it covers the entire item with about an inch or so of water covering the chicken pieces. Bring to a boil and then lower the heat and simmer for about two hours.

Serve over cooked rice in a soup bowl. Garnish with chopped green onion, or a dash of fried shallot. Bon Appetit.

RICE PORRIDGE

Ingredients:

1 cup of uncooked rice
8 cups of water
1 chicken buillion cube
Shredded pieces of left over chicken meat (optional)
Pieces of julienned (sp?) chinese wood ear mushroom (optional)

Garnishes:

Chinese fried bread (optional, sliced cross wise, 1/4 inch thick, can be bought in Oriental grocery store, frozen)
Chopped green onion
Kikkoman soy sauce
Chili Garlic hot sauce (Tuong ot toi Vietnam)


Boil the entire ingredients, then lower heat to simmer, and stir often to prevent burning and sticking of the rice to the bottom of the pan (non-stick pan suggested).
They are done when the mix is the consistency of a watery oatmeal.

Serve in a bowl, garnish with the above ingredients. Go gentle with the hot sauce.

Coming to a blog near you soon: shrimp wonton soup, pork and napa dumplings, fried shrimp dumplings, egg rolls, opor ayam (I think I blogged on this a year or two ago), and maybe gado-gado (Indonesian salad with peanut sauce).