Tuesday Night Stir Fry

I decided to have a stir fry based on my breakfast grain bowl I had the other morning. Now what you have to keep in mind is that I’m just winging it from here on out. I don’t know what I’m doing and it’s obvious to anyone who has eyes. I don’t care though because it does taste good and it’s not going to kill me anytime soon with high blood sugars.

I’m straight up “gaijin” 外人 (Japanese word for foreign barbarian) and it doesn’t hurt my feelings one bit. I’m just trying to eat to live and not prematurely croak from the black plague of the 21st century — aka — diabetes. Heck, I feel like Wilford Brimley sometimes…. “Diabeetus”, ya know ?

Once again this starts off with about 2 ounces of shredded chicken that gets browned in the tiniest amount of extra virgin olive oil.

Next comes a couple handfuls of chopped red, yellow, green, and orange bell peppers. Add in some minced garlic and chopped onions, tomato chunks, then simmer in a small amount of water so everything steams.

Then a fistful of matchstick carrots and a few snow pea pods get thrown in the mix. Turmeric, black pepper, smoked paprika, oregano, ancho chili powder, garlic, are the spices added to the small amount of water and meat in the pan so it can reduce and stick to the other ingredients.

Now I just go hog wild at this point. Into the pan goes a big handful of alfalfa sprouts. These really taste like I’m eating grass unless I cook them just slightly at first. Same thing with my mung bean sprouts too. I have a serious sprouting kit and make my own alfalfa and bean sprouts. I’m told these things are supposed to be super healthy for you if eaten raw, but I have to have mine slightly cooked. I’m used to eating FOOD after all….. not what my food eats. That means critters who eat this stuff and end up on my plate after the fact. Well…… the name of the game here is trying to eat healthier stuff you know ? So — sprouts. Hey, they’re not bad once you mix them into the stir fry a little. I’m slowly going from a second hand vegetarian to something along the lines of primary. A second hand vegetarian waits until his delicious dinner eats the succulent plants BEFORE he makes dinner out of said critter. Think of me as merely eliminating the “middle man” and going straight to the task at hand. Veggies ! Plants !

At this point in the game I have some Forbidden black rice precooked and chilling in the fridge along with a container of three color quinoa. This ain’t the standard white rice stuff…. It’s supposed to be super healthy for you.

Maybe I should have dug my wok out of the cabinet but at this juncture, in for a penny in for a pound. I didn’t start out to make a stir fry but that’s what I ended up with. So I used a regular frying pan. Sue me already…. I’m “gaijin”, remember ? A barbarian so I don’t care if my pan had sloped sides or straight. All I know is that it works and I was eating like a big dog tonight.

I have to admit that once I was introduced to the mixture of low sodium soy sauce, rice vinegar, and hot sesame oil…. I was hooked ! This is like my newest version of crack cocaine, it’s that good. Sort of like when I have fresh baked bread with butter and some Penzey’s Fox Point spice. Fox Point is proof that God loves us and wants us to enjoy fresh baked home made bread. Salt, green peppercorn, and enough garlic to kill a full grown vampire from 50 feet away just by breathing on it.

I didn’t use any Fox Point on this bowl, but I did add enough garlic to be able to rip a vampire apart just by spitting in it’s general direction. A word of warning — if you make this dish and have a significant other I advise feeding them a bowl of this stuff too. That way you’ll not drive them completely out of the bed at night breathing on them. I have found that when you BOTH eat this much garlic, your stink cancels out their stink quite a bit. I just mostly have a yellow dog that sleeps in my bed at night for the most part. Since she basically licks her butt a lot, I don’t think she minds my garlic breath much.