The  sweetest  sound....

...be  kind  to  them...

                                    rest  and recuperation....SILENT Sunday...

Chicken  with  Apricots

Ingredients 

1 1/4  cups dried orzo (8 oz.)
15 ounce can unpeeled apricot halves in light syrup
4 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves
1 1/2  teaspoons curry powder
2  tablespoons olive oil
6  green onions

Directions 

1. Cook orzo according to package; drain. Drain apricot halves, reserving 1/2 cup syrup.

2. Meanwhile, sprinkle chicken with salt, pepper and 1/2 teaspoon curry powder. Heat oil in large skillet over medium heat. Add chicken; cook for 8 minutes or until no longer pink (170 degrees F), turning once. Add apricots the last 2 minutes. Transfer to plates.

3. Cut green tops of 2 onions into diagonal slices; set aside; chop remaining onions. Add chopped onion and remaining curry powder to skillet; cook 1 minute. Stir in reserved syrup and orzo. Add to plates. Sprinkle onion tops. 

Sparkling  Pomegranate  Punch
 

INGREDIENTS

2 oranges, thinly sliced crosswise

1/4 cup pomegranate seeds

3/4 cup ice-cream soda

Ice cubes, for serving

3 tablespoons sugar

1 cup diced fresh pineapple (1/2 inch)

1 cup pomegranate juice

DIRECTIONS

 In a punch bowl, dissolve the sugar in the pomegranate juice, stirring vigorously. Add the ice-cream soda, then add the orange slices, diced pineapple and pomegranate seeds. Serve the sparkling pomegranate punch over ice cubes.

Nando's  Spicy  Rice 

Ingredients:

2 cups of cooked rice--make it like we normally make rice but add garlic ginger paste to it
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 bell pepper finely chopped
1/2 tsp pepper 
 2 tbsp oil
1 medium onion
1 tomato finely chopped
1 or 2 cloves garlic
3 tsp peri peri sauce

Heat oil and fry onion for 2 minutes. Then add garlic, bell pepper and tomatoes and mix well and then add rice then add peri peri sauce.

Peri-peri  sauce
 
8 dried whole red chillies (the long ones)
1/4 cup red chilles (the round ones)
2 tbsp crushed pepper
1/2 cup white vinegar
1/2 cup oil
3 cloves garlic
1 tsp. salt
4 tsp lemon juice
1/4 tsp turmeric
1 small onion

Put the above ingredients in a blender and blend until all is incorporated.

Hot Peri Peri Chicken Stir Fry 

1 lb chicken breast cut into long strips
1 tablespoon (or to taste) Peri Peri Sauce
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1 bag of "stir fry" veggies, or if not just get baby carrots and cut lengthwise and get mushrooms and other frozen veggies
1/4 cup oil
3 cloves garlic (crush it)
1 inch ginger (crush it)

Heat oil and add the crushed garlic and ginger then add chicken fry the chicken until it is golden then add the peri peri sauce, soy sauce in it. Then add the veggies and let it cook for about 5 minutes.

...the  sweetest  sound...

Alas...rest...rest...rest...Rest and  Recuperation...It's  silent  Sunday...long weekends! 

...out  of  the  box  fruit  salad

Ingredients

1 handful blueberries
about 4 or 5 strawberries halved
1 nectarine
1/2 an apple
1 black plum
1/2 teaspoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon  masala

Method

Cut all the fruits except for blueberries and mix them in with sugar and  masala..yummy!!!

...be  skeptical, but  not  cynical...

p/s... A skeptic says "give me reason to believe".

         A cynic says, "there is no reason to believe." 

Well, we can't progress from a premise of "nothing is true and nothing worthwhile." ...but a skeptic can assume reality exists and operates according to certain principles (what better premises do we have?)...and even if we live in a world of temporary beliefs and "probable truth," we have the possibility of knowledge and creativity.