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Recipe of the Week – Chicken with Black Beans and Garlic

October 19, 2009 at 9:13 am Leave a comment

(From the Chicken Entrée Collection at emealsforyou.com)

Chicken with Black Beans and Garlic

I haven’t cooked Chinese food for quite a while.  We used to do it on a regular basis but somehow got out of the habit.  So when I saw a cooking show highlighting Chinese food I thought I should go back to one of my standards.  Chinese takeout is so iffy, you never know what you will get.  Sometimes it is so good and other times, even from the same restaurant , it is undercooked or just plain bad.  It is for these very reasons we began to make our favorites at home.

When people ask me how to get their significant other more involved in the food preparation at home I tell them to start with making Chinese food.  This usually appeals to even the staunches “I can’t cook, I don’t know anything about cooking” individual.  Basically it starts with chopping food up; what man doesn’t like to show off his knife skills?  Then it plays in line with his usual impatience.  Heat the wok, add oil and whatever you are cooking, usually at once, and stir for 2 minutes.  Voila, or whatever voila is in Mandarin, and you have it, a meal for an emperor.

So, to get someone interested in making a meal, start out easy, cook something fast and build up from there.

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