shoyu chicken
So in my “blog stats” I can see which websites have referred my blog. WordPress blog searches are included in this. I’m surprised by how many people search for “shoyu chicken” – it pops up a few times a month. What’s even funnier is that my blog entry is the only one under “shoyu chicken.” (And now this entry will be there, too.) I’m glad to see other people like shoyu chicken. Hmmm, maybe I should have included a recipe.
P.S. I’ve typed “shoyu” so many times it’s starting to sound funny. (“Tartlets…tartlets…tartlets….The word has lost all meaning.” I know who’ll get that reference!)
Damn you, Rachael Ray!
Ok, so it wasn’t (completely) her fault. It was probably (mostly) my fault too.
As part of my quest to become a better cook, I borrowed Rachael Ray’s 365 No Repeats – A Year of Deliciously Different Dinners from the library. I perused it eagerly, bookmarking the recipes that sounded both yummy and relatively easy (coincidentally, all the recipes I marked called for chicken as the main ingredient).
Food, Glorious Food!
Tonight for dinner I made shoyu chicken (shoyu = soy sauce, for you mainlanders). It was soooooo good. My first whiff of it as it was simmering made me immediately long for home. It was the first time I attempted shoyu chicken. Suprisingly easy to make, if a little time-consuming. I kept having visions of my mother in the kitchen – which is funny, because my visions were of her making chicken adobo. I also cooked some “sticky rice” (as J called it). The smell of dinner was making us both nostalgic, and excited to have a little taste of Hawai’i.
Finally, the rice was done and the chicken was cooked. I served us, we sat down, pierced the chicken with our forks…and oops, apparently the chicken wasn’t cooked through. (more…)
