Breaking with the templates of the last week, the next couple of posts will be simpler and shorter, in particular because next week will be a significant travel week.
First, here's what I made on Friday: steamed fish, chicken scraps soup, and potato pancake things. The potato pancake thing was my downfall. In retrospect, it was slightly too ambitious for how late it was when I started with prep. It required dicing ingredients, which I am not good at and get frustrated by, and the patty-like nature was closer to baking than cooking, which I am also hilariously bad at. The thing was pretty tasty, but it took a stupid amount of time to prepare and wasn't quite worth the effort in the end.
To re-calibrate myself, I prepared something much simpler, going back to basics with a simple chicken stir fry. For this - what I did was that I blanched the vegetables before throwing them into the wok for the stir fry, and it seemed to have done some good. I also tossed the chicken chunks around in a very hot wok to add a nice char all round to kick it all off. Pretty simple stuff, but well enough, and so no complaints here.
Cheers,
Hanchen
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