I have found, over the past few weeks, that my interest in cooking a quality meal (both tasteful and visually appealing) has skyrocketed. My biggest issue, as a single college student with only a single roommate (two if you consider her other half), is that cooking actual meals tend to fall by the wayside due to lack of people to eat the food. In addition, I have been previously frustrated with my inability to cook impromptu and thus have always strayed away from the kitchen. On the other hand, my natural ability to be concise in all that I do led me to realize how great I am at following a recipe. Therefore, with my addiction to Pinterest (feel free to follow my boards; user name JLD2) in addition to my discovery of FoodGawker (also refer to CraftGawker) I have enjoyed experiencing with the heat. To battle the issue of overwhelming amount of leftovers I try to stick to recipes that serve four or less and have adopted friend Kyle as a food critic in exchange for physics homework help. In addition, I have been encouraged to bring sweet treats into the hospital on my Wednesday volunteering days, which helps with my not eating everything when I cook in bulk!
With all that said, my plan is to post every week my major "eats." For the meals that I prepare I plan to provide pictures galore (at this point, poor quality pictures taken with my blackberry, because once again I am between cameras; I have gone through about 12 in the last 4 years) in addition to a break down of pricing from the grocery store (I will actually begin next week because, of course, I have misplaced this week's receipts). And after this week, it is evident I will definitely be starting to clip coupons on a more regular basis.
Honey Sesame Chicken & S'mores Cookies
On Wednesday, I went over to Kyle's for homework help and, bribing his time with food, gave him the choice between Honey Sesame Chicken and Taco Muffins, both new recipes found on FoodGawker and Pinterest, respectively. The decision for the Chinese dish was made and off I trotted to the lovely orange Bi-Lo. For those of you who are unaware, my adored university is Clemson and it is only fit that my exuberating town has orange every where; it's quite lovely (pictures of the orange Bi-Lo will come in next week's post). As sides for my chicken I made the executive decision of steamed asparagus and brown rice.
Unfortunately, I only took a few pictures of my Wednesday night delicacy, but don't worry, I made up for that Sunday with 40!
Making the Honey Sesame Chicken: For the most part I followed the instructions from the "My Kitchen Snippets." For the ingredients, listed in (italics) are the particulars that I purchased at the Orange Bi-Lo. And in bold are the main parts to each step if you're in a hurry and don't want to read all my side notes.
