Chicken Fried Rice with BACON

We’re going to pretend there is a photo of delicious steaming fried rice, with chunks of mouthwatering bacon strewn throughout.

I didn't have time to take a decent photo, since it was thrown together so quickly.

But we all know what fried rice looks like right?

Yes, yes we do

If not you could always Google it, problem solved.

Chicken Fried Rice with BACON

2 cups cooled and cooked rice

4 Chicken Breasts/Thighs, whatever you have on hand

3 garlic cloves, minced

1 Onion

1 Cup mixed veggies

5 Slices of Bacon!

1 Cup Soy Sauce

1 Tbs. sriracha (I love spicy, feel free to adjust to taste)

1 dash rice vinegar

3 Eggs

1. Season chicken with salt pepper and garlic powder throw in a hot pan and cook until no longer pink in the middle, then chop into bite size pieces.

2. Fry some bacon, Set aside.

3. Sauté Onions in bacon grease! This is optional since everyone is so damn health conscious, but boy does it taste good, I suppose you could substitute with olive oil or butter.

4. Throw in some chopped garlic and mixed veggies, let cook till garlic is fragrant

5. Scramble your eggs in a separate bowl, add some milk beat some air into them, if you like em' fluffly! Pour egg into the pot of mix veggies stir around until the eggs are no longer runny.

6. In a separate bowl mix soy sauce, rice vinegar and sriracha

7. Now, add rice, soy sauce mixture and chicken to the veggies and stir stir stir!

Notes:

-Do not use hot rice, your fried rice will turn into a big mushy mess, if you can cook ahead awesome just leave it on your counter a bit to cool, or if you are like me a rarely plan ahead cook rice spread it onto a cookie sheet and stick in the freezer until cooled. I must say this is not the proper way to cool rice, but it does get the job done.

-This recipe feeds about 4 people.

Sourdough Starter, or Let the Bread Making Commence.

Sourdough Starter:
2 cups Flour
2 cups Water
1 packet of Active Dry Yeast
2 tsp. Granulated Sugar (optional)
            Yeast feeds off of sugar, so adding a little will just speed up the process a bit!

ARE YOU READY!
Of course you are ready.

1. Grab a bowl, preferably glass, your starter is not a fan of metal, so no metal bowls, plastic is okay but glass is better.
2. Dump all those ingredients in your bowl and whisk together flour, yeast, sugar, and water, be sure to beat in plenty of air.
3. Now we pour into the jar, you see this makes about 2-3 cups of starter so choose an accommodating size jar, with room for the starter to almost double in volume.

AT THIS POINT WE SHOULD HAVE SOURDOUGH STARTER IN A JAR

Are you still following?
GOOD.

Now this will be your yeast culture child.

We will have to watch this little one and feed him too!

FEEDING YOUR STARTER
In about a day or so you will see your starter start bubble. This means it is time to feed your starter.

1.  Pour out half of your starter, mix together one cup of water and one cup of flour.
2. Repeat next day.
3. Repeat until it has a strong sour smell, and has doubled in volume. ( about five days)

STORING YOUR STARTER
For the first five days you will be storing your starter in the cupboard covered loosely with the lid or with a towel draped over the jars.
A warm draft free area is ideal, so really anywhere that meets those qualifications.

In about five days your starter will be stable enough to use! After the five days is up you can move your starter to the refrigerator, this will allow you to only feed your starter once a week.

When feeding once a week you can either throw out the excess starter or use it!

Fresh bread every week, mhmm.

Look forward to sourdough cinnamon raisin swirl bread recipe!

I have made plant life!

LOOOK! MY FIRST SPROUT, OH BOY.
Time to be excited people, I have made plant life! Soon I will have tomatoes and all other sorts of homegrown crops that I can start canning, and making jam ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES PEOPLE and I couldn't be happier. For now I should stick to the nurturing of these lovely sprouts.

For the last few weeks I have had gardening on the brain, so there will be quite the crafting going on in my apartment, I'm playing lets be creative and utilize balcony space, oh and of course not spend a lot of money doing it.

Look at all this jazz I scored from the Dollar Tree!

My score includes:

One Medium size pot

Organic potting soil

Six pack of small pots (for growing those oh so adorable seedlings)

Three Small Decorative Pots

Tomato seeds, two types

Bell Pepper seeds

Hanging Basket

Two Bags of Rocks (proper drainage y'all)

Total: $10.00

Oh yea, BARGAIN

I may have bitten off more than i can chew, you see I have never grown ANYTHING EVER in my life, I have not even successfully kept a house plant alive. There's a first time for everything.

What my garden currently consists of:

1. Basil

2. Patio Tomatoes

3. Beefsteak Tomatoes

4. Bell Peppers

5. Strawberries

6.Jalapenos

7. Cilantro

I'm sure there is more to come, because I can't do anything small.