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Chad’s Chinese Chicken Salad

Chad — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 23:59:01 +0000

Okay, pardon me for using this space as my personal notepad for recipes I just made up, but I feel like all 10 of you will forgive me.

Boil until tender:

2 Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts

Mix in a small bowl:

2 T Brown Sugar

2 T Soy Sauce

1/2 t Rice Wine Vinegar

1 t Sriracha Hot Chili Sauce

1/4 t dry mustard

1/2 t lemon juice

It’s gonna be… um… a bit hot.

Let the chicken cool, then shred it up. Put it in a ziplock and dump the sauce on it. Shake it up and put it in the fridge.

Throw 1/2 c rice and ~2/3 c water in a bowl, cook it up.

Mix all this together and refrigerate. 2 servings. Tastes like PF Chang’s Lettuce wraps and I made it up.

Skipping tuna tomorrow!!

Oh Sausage, Where Art Thou?

Chad — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:12:46 +0000

My favorite sausage, Casual Gourmet Chicken Sausage with Tomatoes, Basil, and Mozzarella Cheese, is no more. I ate this sausage for dinner for months, and it allowed me to lose a lot of weight. I’m very upset that it’s gone forever just because it didn’t “resonate with consumers.” Makers of my sausage, I appreciate your efforts, wherever you are.

Chicken from Hell!

Chad — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 23:45:45 +0000

Colleen’s out tonight, playing with a friend, and left me alone to fend for myself. Lately, I’ve been craving spicy dishes. Since she wasn’t here to eat my cooking, I decided I’d make some kind of spicy chicken dish. I got out the Yoshida’s Sauce and thawed a chicken breast, and dug around the spice rack looking for something to kick it up a bit. I found a bottle of “Ass Kicking” sauce that I’d been given for Christmas and have been too afraid to try. I tasted a bit… Yup, it was plenty hot enough. Eyes watered, mouth burned… Just a touch. I mixed about 2 teaspoons of the wickedly hot sauce into the Yoshida’s Sauce along with some crushed red pepper and soy sauce to thin it out a bit and let my chicken marinade. After about 30 minutes, I popped it on George Foreman’s grill and served it up to myself with some steamed rice. Heaven. Who’d have thought that Mexican style hot sauce (Captain Morgan is to Sailor Jerry as Tabasco is to Ass Kicking) would go SO WELL with an Asian Teriyaki Garlic sauce? WOW. Very hot, very tasty. Sorry for the random cooking blog. More on the new job and stuff this weekend…

Chocolate, of all things…

Chad — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:07:21 +0000

So now some cheapskates want to change the very definition of chocolate. I’m not even a huge fan, but calling something that is not chocolate chocolate is just silly. Next they’ll be wanting to call refried beans T-Bone steaks. Just say no to the FDA, visit here for more information.

One Hot Wing

Chad — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:17:01 +0000

I’m really trying very hard not to turn this into a Diet Blog, but I did some astounding math and wanted to share it with you. By my estimates, it’s taken me a full 17 years to gain the 80.5 lbs I’m now in the process of losing. Now, 1 pound of fat stores a whopping 3500 calories. When, over any period of time, you eat 3500 calories more than you burn, you gain 1 pound. Similarly, when you eat 3500 less calories than you burn over any period, you lose 1 pound. That 80.5 extra pounds represents a 281,750 calories surplus I’m currently burning through. Now, if you divide that by 17 years, that’s an extra 16,674 calories per year, or 45 unneeded calories per day. A single greasy delicious hot wing has around 45 calories in it.

I got where I am over the equivalent of ONE EXTRA HOT WING PER DAY FOR 17 YEARS. You’ve been warned.