Riceabelly

Okay, so I know the title is completely stupid, but I am feeling doubleplusmeh today and my creativity is at nil, lol.
I woke up around 5:30 this morning, feeling incredibly nauseated but yet somehow hungry. I decided to whip up a small pot of jook/congee, even though I have no chicken. I just threw the following things in the instant pot, set it to cook and went back to watching youtube videos until it was done.

3/4 cup of rinsed short grain rice

1 – 32 oz carton of unsalted chicken broth

drizzle of toasted sesame oil

minced garlic (to your tastes)

grated ginger (to your tastes)

drizzle of fish sauce

drizzle of Chinese red vinegar

salt (to your taste)

1 tbl of sugar

Drizzle some toasted sesame oil in the bottom of your instant pot pan and add the ginger and garlic, giving a good stir. Let that cook on the sauté function for a min or so before turning that off and adding the broth. Finally, add the rinsed rice cover, close the vent and set on the porridge setting for 30 min. Once it beeps, allow it to do a natural release for about 10 min before venting and stirring. Once you have stirred things up, add the salt, sugar, fish sauce and vinegar, or whatever else you would rather use. Soy sauce can work for the fish sauce, the sugar and vinegar can be left out. Tailor it to your tastes. Top with whatever you feel would taste good, chopped peanuts, dried shrimp, green onions, cilantro, etc. I opted for just plain with mine because of my tummy.

Chicken A Go Go

I marinated some chicken breast tenderloins overnight in Greek vinaigrette. Air fried them tonight and served atop a pilaf made from mixed veggies, garlic brown rice and quinoa, a little feta and some more Greek vinaigrette.

Easy, fast, and tastes fantastic. I may try something similar with a Zesty Italian dressing. I just keep on keeping on with the sloth inspired dinners, lol.

Beans, beans the magical fruit

Spouse and me love to have this for lunch/brunch. Easy, takes maybe 4 minutes to cook, (4 min to air fry toast while the beans get nuked) is loaded with fiber, relatively low in fat and DELICIOUS.

Sunday, Lazy Sunday

Not feeling particularly energetic, and not having thawed anything for dinner, this ended up being what I served.

Yup. Macaroni and cheese with peas. Also? I made it in the instant pot…and? It is BOXED mac & cheese. It isn’t even two boxes of the same kind. One box of Annie’s four cheese penne and the other is Annie’s butter and parmesan spirals. I did use chicken broth to make it, added some garlic and mushroom umami powder and extra cheese once it was cooked. But even the peas were reheated leftovers. Sounds kind of sad, tastes absolutely delicious. That’s how I do sloth…BOOM.

Gunge is the word

I woke up at 6 am, and decided to finally use up the apples that have been quietly going soft in the fruit bowl. I cored, sliced and peeled while watching the new season of The Great British Bakeoff on Netflix. (Which, btw, Rowan on biscuit week saying his coconut macaroons looked “a bit like the cat’s lavatory” totally made my day.) I chopped the apples right into my instant pot, added a cup of water (far too much in hindsight), a fuckton of cinnamon (also maybe too much for most, perfect for me) and some dark brown sugar. Set my IP to 15 min on manual high pressure and let it go. Once it beeped and I released the pressure it was…too liquid. Never one to give up easily, I just popped on the sauté function and let it reduce. What was left was a dark brown gunge that I was scared to taste.

So this is what came out, and you know it looks like dark brown gunge, but it tastes really good. A bit too sweet for how I like apple sauce usually, but perfect on toast. Huzzah! Next time, though I will cut back on the brown sugar and water, heh.