I love food but hate computer STDs.

Hallo liebe Leute!

I have an hour an fifteen minutes left of work and have had plenty of time to prepare today's blog! Today I am going to share with you my love of food. I have also decided that every blog is going to end in a recipe that I want to share with you. Every blog is also going to end with a PSA about a subject I feel you need to be warned about (many will likely not be as serious as others). So here we go . . .

• I love food. I love cooking food, I love eating food, I love smelling food, I love looking at food, I don't so much love having to pay for food but that's besides the point.
• I love a lot of foods, but there are very specific foods that I do not like. I hate potatoes. I have never ever liked potatoes. When I was a small child, my parents tried to feed me potatoes and I not only spit them out, I wiped my tongue. I also do not like eggs. I used to like eggs, but then I stopped. I don't like yogurt, but I wish that I did. It smells so good but tastes so bad :-(
• I love chicken, pasta and seafood but I will eat any animal (Fun to pet, better to chew! -Jim Gaffigan)
• I grew up with parents that both love to cook. They always cooked things that I found normal but I realized later in life that they were not. For example: We ALWAYS had a rice cooker in the house and we ate rice like our lives depended on it. However, when I was 16 I finally realized that not everyone, in fact very few people, have rice cookers in their house. This was slightly embarrassing.
• So now that I am older I have inherited their passion for cooking (UMass dining also helped move the process along) I started cooking at school and have acquired quite a few delicious recipes from various places.
• I'm addicted to the food network. I watch it all the time and have lost countless hours of sleep watching "Food network night time"
  
• I love Rachael Ray and don't care how annoying you think she is. I also love Paula Deen.
• I'm not so much into baking. I had a traumatic experience involving expensive brownie mix and egg negligence. Kate and I were supposed to make four boxes of Ghirardelli brownies which we did. However, we did not add the eggs. Therefore, they sat in the oven for two and a half hours and never cooked. So I stick to cooking and minimal baking.

• As much as I love cooking, I also love to eating at restaurants. Some of my favorite restaurants are The Melting Pot, Legal Seafood, McCormick and Schmick, PF Chang's, Buffalo Wild Wings and the Thai restaurant in Gloucester. I suggest you try all of these restaurants because they are delicious!
• For your viewing pleasure: This is a video that Jess and I made for German 311 about Schnitzel and Pretzels (don't worry, there is minimal German speaking.) it's epic.
  

I think that's enough about food for now, there will likely be more later on.

Now for today's PSA . . .

Get your computer tested for STD's! Just as you don't want to have the clap, your computer doesn't want to have a virus. I suggest getting a main anti-virus program such as McAfee as well as anti-spyware or anti-malware programs such as Super antispyware or malware bytes. These extra programs can usually be found online for free and are very helpful in protecting your beloved computer. Also invest in an external hard drive to backup all of your important files just in case something does happen and you need to wipe your hard drive or if your computer crashes.


Today's Recipe: Chicken and Green Onion Sauce! This is one of my mom's many recipes and one of my absolute favorites.

Chicken in green onion sauce

2 t soy sauce
1 ½ t sugar
1 T sherry or cooking wine
4 chicken breasts, pounded thin

Cornstarch
4-6 T olive oil

6T rice vinegar
6T sugar
4T soy sauce
Bunch green onion, chopped
1T sesame oil
1t chili oil

Place chicken in a ziplock bag with 2t soy sauce, 1 ½ t sugar and cooking wine and let sit for 10-15 minutes.

Combine the final 6 ingredients and set aside

Dredge the chicken in the cornstarch and shake off any extra.

Heat the olive oil and fry the chicken until golden brown 3-4 minutes per side. Remove to a serving dish.

Add the remaining ingredients and bring to a slight boil. Pour over the chicken and serve with rice


That's all for today! Hope your treatment is working. Thanks for Reading!

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