Rocky Smolin
rockysmolin at bchacc.com
Sat May 2 15:28:30 CDT 2009
OK, back at ya (this is OT Saturday, isn't it? OK, here it is – my (locally) famous Chicken with Black Bean Sauce. A real crowd pleaser. My kids actually ate broccoli in this dish. First – if you don’t already have one, stop by Target and pick up a rice cheap cooker (this is what I got: http://www.target.com and search for rice cookers and looks at the Rival 6-cupper (RC61)). Perfect rice every time. Fast cleanup. You don’t have to monitor it. Never burns to the pot. Start 2-3 cups rice (uncooked) early enough so it’ll be finished before the chicken. Basmati is my preference. Now the dish Chicken – 1-2 pounds of skinless boneless chicken breast depending on how hungry you are. Dice into bite sized pieces and sauté on med-high heat until still a bit pink on the inside (they’ll cook more at the end. Put ‘em in a bowl and set aside (the chicken, not you). Note: I have made this with shrimp as well. But the shrimp cook real fast so just throw them in at the end along with the sauce. I’ve also used beef. But chicken is the best. Veggies – cut up as much broccoli as you can stand – I use 1-2 pounds of crowns. Cut up a big onion. Stir fry the broccoli. It takes longer than the onion so add the onion about ½ way through cooking the broccoli. I recommend not using frozen broc. It starts out soggy and gets worse from there. But you can use it in a pinch. Note: I don’t use a wok. I use a big flat 14 inch fry pan. Note: I sometimes substitute fresh green beans for broccoli. Same caveat on the frozen. You could also do eggplant although no one in this house would eat it but me. Note: Go ahead throw in whatever else you like – water chestnutz, snow peas (but just at the end, they go limp fast). Just don’t make it too ungepotchke. Sauce: Take about a quarter of a jar of Lee Kum Kee Black Bean with Garlic Sauce and put it in a 2-cup measuring cup. Add something to thicken the sauce – tablespoon or 2 of flour, corn starch, something like that. Fill the cup 3/4 full or so. I’d give you a more precise measurement but I just eyeball it. Whisk it into submission. You can put in some Szchechuan chili sauce, but we usually just put it on top after serving. It’s pretty spicy. Note: I used to use milk instead of water. Makes a different kind of sauce but every bit as good. Also, I’ve used a can of coconut milk, too, but it didn’t seem to add much flavor – but made the sauce richer (more fat). Final assembly: When the veggies are done to your liking, turn the heat way down, otherwise the sauce will boil away real fast. Pour in the chicken, then give the sauce a final whisk and pour on top. Have some additional water standing by as sometimes the sauce cooks down too much or gets too thick and you need to thin it out. Turn it over a few times and Walla! A crowd pleaser. It may seem like a bit of potchkying the first time, but, after you make it a few times it goes real quick. That’s what I like about it. Quick. -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Steve Erbach Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 1:19 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Form corruption Rocky, I also make a mean stir fry and superb turtle bars ( http://www.swerbach.com/recipe ). Steve Erbach On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Rocky Smolin <rockysmolin at bchacc.com> wrote: > Lambert: > > He has other redeeming qualities. Nice speaking voice for example. > And he reads to her. These benefits cannot be minimized. > > Rocky > > > -----Original Message----- > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Heenan, > Lambert > Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 1:10 PM > To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' > Cc: 'Janet Erbach' > Subject: Re: [AccessD] Form corruption > > Janet, > > Sounds more like he's an out-house waste of space: 100% of the time he > has no answer! What else does he consult on? > > As to your problem. The copy you are developing on: is it stored on a > network drive? Do you get the same issues if you work on a copy on > your local hard drive? What I'm driving at is that perhaps you have a > bad network connection and that is causing the trouble. > > Lambert > > -----Original Message----- > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Janet > Erbach > Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 3:44 PM > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving > Subject: Re: [AccessD] Form corruption > > Yes, I do have an in-house consultant. (Actually, since he's not > on-site does that make him an 'Out-house consultant'?) But half the > time he says "Ask the forum!! That's what they're for!!" and the > other half he says "Hell if I know, honey!" -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com