Cooking...AND I'M HERE TO TELL YOU ALL ABOUT IT!

OK, so....I did it again.

I tried to make Dill Paprika Chicken.

And my chicken had grown mould on it.

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH.

I swear, fate has it out for me. I basically just threw out everything in my fridge and freezer today while I was trying to MAKE A MEAL! ARGH! LOL.

Well, that's what I get for thinking that I can eat five minute food all week, and doing all my fancy cooking on the weekend. SO, I have decided to share the results of having a near empty fridge and a lot of panicking with all of you! Yes, you! Back there, going for the nearest exit! I see you! Sit down!

Anyways, other than a very clean and non-smelly fridge which I am now the proud owner of, I decided that I needed to eat something, so I did what I normally do, which is I try and make something so unedible, I'll probably get sick from eating it. And usually the results are terrific! =D =D =D

The uh, one out of...four times that it's not, the toilet bowl is my friend! But it's better than dumb ol' mouldy dill paprika chicken anyways! Or at least that's what I'm going to keep telling myself! =D So here's my recipe that I share with you!




Apple Carrot Rice


1 cup ½ of basmati rice

1/3 cup of plain yoghurt (optional, but a very good idea if you can)

2 medium size carrots

1 apple

½ of onion

Dill seasoning

vegetable oil

vinegar

1-2 sausages (optional)

BBQ sauce (optional)


1. Heat vegetable oil to hot temperature in pan. Peel carrots, and slice into medium-sized medallions, and chop onions into slices. Throw onion and carrot in.

2. Once about half done, add a bit 'o' vingar. Don’t go overboard…you just want enough for the sweet sour flavour, not enough to clean your floors with.

3. The carrots and onions, when looking near done, add in sliced cubes and triangles of apple. I prefer to leave the skin on so that the apples don’t turn to mush in the pan. But, I mean, hey, whatever floats your apple-y boat.

4. You should only need a minute or two for the apples to get some of the flavour of everything else in the pan, and to get soft. Those apples. Old softies.

5. While this is going on, now’s a good time to start the rice. It should only take about eight minutes, so don’t start it too early. Of course, if you're like me, and you burn the rice simply by looking at it the wrong way, then maybe you should be careful about when you stop and start the rice.

6. Once the fruit-vegetable mix you’ve been cooking looks done, throw it into a bowl and set it aside. You can forget about it for a bit.

7. Now, for the optional part. Now is the time where you would add sausage if you so desire (I did because I had a SERIOUS meat craving tonight. Like, for chicken. But, well, we know what happened to that.) When you add it, you may wish to add BBQ sauce, which I did so that the sausage will have some flavour on its own.

8. The sausage should be about half done when your rice starts looking cooked. I like my rice soft, so it may be that you want to stop your rice earlier. (Don’t you love it when people give you recipes and you read the part you should have read near the start so you didn’t ruin things? Yeah, I love that.) At this point, you should probably take the rice out and put it into a a seperate bowl than the veggie fruit mixture. You can now add a dollop of yogurt to the rice if you like; it should enhance the flavour of the dill later. Don’t add too much though, especially if you have really runny yoghurt like I did. Otherwise, well, it wont be pretty. Although it will still probably be edible. I can't promise anything on that one, though.

9.Now you can go back to your original bowl of apple, onions and carrot, and you can add in dill seasoning (or fresh dill if you're a spice snob.) and stir it around until it’s all sufficiently coated. Throw this on top of the rice, and it should like you’re a gourmet chef! =D You can also add the sausage at the point as well if you added it. This turned out so well, I think I will post a picture of it when I bring it to a potluck tomorrow night! =D I ate it too fast to take a picture.
=( I looked at the ingredients and wrote them down as I ate it. =(

Anyways, I went Christmas shopping today, and I can honestly tell you, I have most of it done! Awesome! Now if only I could figure out what to get my little brother Adam for Christmas besides money. Hey, maybe I could give him European money. Hmmm...too much of a cop out? Probably.

I LOVE CHRISTMAS!