Dinner: Sweet-Spicy Chicken and Vegetable Stir Fry with Double Sesame Rice

securedownloadAnother day…another Cooking Light recipe ya’ll.

In our endless quest to, at the last minute, find something to make for dinner…the wife and I threw out ideas.  I pulled a recipe from SkinnyTaste.com that may have been a little complicated to throw together quickly.  The wife pulled this recipe from Cooking Light for Sweet-Spicy Chicken and Vegetable Stir Fry.  She sent over the picture from the Cooking Light site and it looked pretty tasty.  I’m a fan of stir fry as long as they don’t have those devil made water chestnuts in them.  WATER CHESTNUTS ARE GROSS PEOPLE!  So, a trip to the store to grab some of the ingredients and dinner was about to go down.  We make a lot of asian recipes so most of this stuff was already laying around the house.  Another great thing about the wife…always thinking smarter, not harder.  Use what you have!

In any case, I can’t vouch for much of the making of the recipe outside of what my wife and sister wife (a friend of ours, but she now goes by sister wife…got a work wife too, just how I roll) said about the meal, which is that it was easy to come together.  I walked in the door from work and, like a well oiled machine, they were already halfway through the stir fry.  I came into the veggies already in the pan sautéing away.  Sitting to the side was the liquid they would add before the cooked chicken back in.

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