My partner did this for me early in our relationship, they actually fed me and all of my overnight coworkers with a homemade meal. We have been married for more than a decade and I still tear up thinking about this memory.
Did this once when my SIL was having her first kid. Went home and made a huge batch of garlic chicken for the whole family because it was a very long labor and we had all been in the waiting room waiting for almost 12 hours for any news and the hospital cafeteria was closed until morning.
While serving it up, got quite a few “omg I want it” looks from a couple others that were waiting as well and definitely offered it up. Was nice to feed everyone, even those couple strangers, so they could concentrate on their other needs. Still a story the family talks about occasionally. Would totally do it again. (The food, not the birthing labor.)
You got it! Truth be told, it’s an old Better Homes and Gardens cookbook recipe, but it’s a hit with everyone I serve it to. The night of the story I made a quadruple batch of this. Enjoy!
Garlic Chicken
Yield: 4-6 servings
2 cups water
2/3 cup soy sauce
2 Tbsp dry white cooking wine
2 Tbsp corn starch
4 chicken breasts, diced
2 cups white rice
4 Tbsp Olive Oil
10 cloves garlic, minced
½ cup green onion, chopped
Combine water, soy sauce, wine, and corn starch in small bowl. Mix well.
Place diced chicken in another bowl, pour half of the soy sauce mixture into bowl. Allow chicken to marinate covered for 30 minutes in the refrigerator.
Cook rice according to package instructions.
Remove chicken from refrigerator and drain marinade.
Heat skillet or wok over medium heat. Add oil and allow to heat. Add garlic and onion. Cook slowly for 5 minutes. Remove from skillet and add to side bowl. Increase heat to high. Add chicken and cook thoroughly, approximately 7-10 minutes. Push cooked chicken to sides of pan, add leftover marinade to pan. Reduce heat to medium-high, allow marinade to reduce until thickened. Add onion, garlic, and oil mixture back to pan and allow to heat through.
When ready to serve, place base of white cooked rice on plate and cover with garlic chicken mixture. Serve hot. Refrigerate leftovers.
EDIT: Updated formatting because it keeps getting messed up when I paste it from my cookbook. (P.S. Microsoft OneNote RULES as a cookbook.)
EDIT2: I also like topping mine with a bit of red pepper flake if you want some heat. Not everyone in my family does, so I generally just put that off to the side for those that want it. And also don’t be afraid to make more of the marinade if you want the final product to have more sauce. Sometimes I’ll double just the marinade part so I have more sauce in the final plated dish.
Updated formatting because it keeps getting messed up when I paste it from my cookbook. (P.S. Microsoft OneNote RULES as a cookbook.)
I was using OneNote at work for a while and this is actually why I stopped. Nothing ever gets copied out with sane formatting and it was driving me mad.
Entirely seriously, the world would be a much better place if people defaulted to actually communicating what would be in such a proverbial instruction manual.
When I was working on my thesis at home, my then-gf would silently sneak in with a plate full of fruit cut to bite size pieces and place it on the table and leave without a word.
47 Comments
sc2pirate@lemmy.world · 148 pts · 248d
My partner did this for me early in our relationship, they actually fed me and all of my overnight coworkers with a homemade meal. We have been married for more than a decade and I still tear up thinking about this memory.
hydrashok@sh.itjust.works · 83 pts · 248d
Did this once when my SIL was having her first kid. Went home and made a huge batch of garlic chicken for the whole family because it was a very long labor and we had all been in the waiting room waiting for almost 12 hours for any news and the hospital cafeteria was closed until morning.
While serving it up, got quite a few “omg I want it” looks from a couple others that were waiting as well and definitely offered it up. Was nice to feed everyone, even those couple strangers, so they could concentrate on their other needs. Still a story the family talks about occasionally. Would totally do it again. (The food, not the birthing labor.)
hydroxycotton@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 247d
Yo you got that recipe handy?
hydrashok@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 247d
You got it! Truth be told, it’s an old Better Homes and Gardens cookbook recipe, but it’s a hit with everyone I serve it to. The night of the story I made a quadruple batch of this. Enjoy!
Garlic Chicken
Yield: 4-6 servings
Combine water, soy sauce, wine, and corn starch in small bowl. Mix well.
Place diced chicken in another bowl, pour half of the soy sauce mixture into bowl. Allow chicken to marinate covered for 30 minutes in the refrigerator.
Cook rice according to package instructions.
Remove chicken from refrigerator and drain marinade.
Heat skillet or wok over medium heat. Add oil and allow to heat. Add garlic and onion. Cook slowly for 5 minutes. Remove from skillet and add to side bowl. Increase heat to high. Add chicken and cook thoroughly, approximately 7-10 minutes. Push cooked chicken to sides of pan, add leftover marinade to pan. Reduce heat to medium-high, allow marinade to reduce until thickened. Add onion, garlic, and oil mixture back to pan and allow to heat through.
When ready to serve, place base of white cooked rice on plate and cover with garlic chicken mixture. Serve hot. Refrigerate leftovers.
EDIT: Updated formatting because it keeps getting messed up when I paste it from my cookbook. (P.S. Microsoft OneNote RULES as a cookbook.)
EDIT2: I also like topping mine with a bit of red pepper flake if you want some heat. Not everyone in my family does, so I generally just put that off to the side for those that want it. And also don’t be afraid to make more of the marinade if you want the final product to have more sauce. Sometimes I’ll double just the marinade part so I have more sauce in the final plated dish.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 247d
Fuckin' righteous
CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 246d
For once a recipe gets it right and I don't have to add more. It's garlic chicken, not hint of garlic chicken.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 246d
It's more like chicken garlic.
hydroxycotton@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 243d
I made it!! It was great. Sorry for the low effort pic. !
hydrashok@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 242d
That’s awesome! Glad you liked it!
CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 246d
I was using OneNote at work for a while and this is actually why I stopped. Nothing ever gets copied out with sane formatting and it was driving me mad.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 247d
I also choose this guy's recipe
hydrashok@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 247d
Posted!
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 247d
Ooh, 10 cloves, now we talking. Between the garlic and onion, I can almost smell the kitchen already
hydrashok@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 247d
Go big or go home!
No vampires in this house.
blarghly@lemmy.world · 92 pts · 248d
Fake: there are no girls on the internet
Gay: anon isn't a girl
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 28 pts · 247d
Memetically compatible solution:
OP is a femboy.
S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 247d
Result: Win
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · 17 pts · 247d
Glad I'm bisexual, cause I'd marry the fuck out of them. Not a care in the world for what's in their pants.
cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 247d
How do you know what kind of oral to do, though? You just outed yourself as a terrible lover.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 247d
this is why we train on the Bop-It
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 247d
Please do go easy on the 'Twist It!'
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 247d
please don't
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 247d
Ring.
Ring.
... Who is it?
... Honey, who is testicular torsion, and why do they want to talk to you?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 247d
Why are they twisting my testicle and not my extra nips?
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 247d
You figure it out when you get down there, it's not that difficult.
cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 247d
So you do still care, youre just willing to wait for that information until the exact moment it applies.
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 247d
I think you're taking this too seriously
cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 247d
I think I'm being technically correct!
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 247d
What.
How does that logic work?
They say they are bisexual.
This implies they have had sexual encounters with both meat rods and meat flowers.
... You know what to do based on ... what shape the sexy time meat is.
... How is this complicated?
cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 247d
It's not but that does still elide a necessary decision fork and discernment.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 245d
Just ask your partner for their instruction manual
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 245d
Entirely seriously, the world would be a much better place if people defaulted to actually communicating what would be in such a proverbial instruction manual.
Mim@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 248d
Fake: anon has a relationship
Gay: anon 'has' a bf (there are no girls on the internet)
wizzor@sopuli.xyz · 83 pts · 248d
When I was working on my thesis at home, my then-gf would silently sneak in with a plate full of fruit cut to bite size pieces and place it on the table and leave without a word.
jia_tan@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 35 pts · 248d
Cuuuuuuutteee!!!!
wizzor@sopuli.xyz · 28 pts · 247d
Yea I agree, that's why she's the now-wife <3
dogs0n@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 247d
Now-wife and future-wife sorry locked it in for you now!
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de · 50 pts · 247d
real and gay
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 247d
objective and happy
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 247d
as i said, real and gay
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 247d
concrete and inescapable, yet whimsical and stylish
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 247d
mee
swagmoney@lemmy.ca · 24 pts · 247d
fabricated: there are no girls on the Internet
homosexual: kissing a man
angrystego@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 246d
There are no girls on the internet who'd ever write hehehe.
stevedice@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 247d
gay: anon has a bf
fake: anon has a bf
Redex68@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 247d
Literally the fakest and gayest thing I've ever seen, happy people don't exist and op is a guy
saturn57@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 248d