Culinary Adventures of 2012 – Chicken with Lime Sauce and Curried Rice Pilaf
It’s been nice not posting daily photos for the last 3 weeks. I’m glad I decided not to continue that in 2012. However, I don’t want this blog to just sit here, so I’m starting a new post series, but NOT one that I’ll be posting every day.
I intend to cook more this year than I did in 2011, as I enjoy it and would like to get better at it. I definitely won’t have time to cook every single day, but I hope to prepare a solid home cooked dinner at least once a week, focusing largely on recipes I’ve never tried before.
So tonight’s dinner was chicken with lime sauce and curried rice pilaf, both recipes I snagged from allrecipes.com. They turned out great! I substituted chicken cutlets for breasts, as I prefer them, and used panko breadcrumb for extra crunch.
The chicken came out with a rather subtle flavor. I thought the lime sauce would be overpowering but it was smooth and complemented the chicken well. Next time I may use a bit more lime though. Michelle felt the chicken needed a bit more salt, which made sense as I had under-salted it on purpose, thinking the lime sauce would steal the show.
The rice was perfect, as far as I’m concerned. Michelle said she’d prefer it without the golden raisins mixed in. I thought they were an excellent sweet addition, but it’s easy enough to only add them to my portion, as they’re part of the very last step.
Overall – a success! I’m looking forward to eating the leftovers for lunch tomorrow, then embarking on another entirely different culinary adventure for dinner tomorrow night.
TweetEnd of the Daily Adventures
It was mostly fun to share daily photos of all the adventures I went on throughout 2011 and I know many enjoyed seeing them. But the task that started as a challenge became a chore by the end of the year and while I am happy to have a year’s worth of pictures to look back on, I will not be doing the same in 2012. I still intend to share many photos along the way, but definitely not every day. I’m considering doing 52 Adventures, one each week, but may not even complete that. I won’t let this blog go to waste (again), but the daily thing is all done.
But today I leave you with a Christmas bonus: a Walking Dead zombie action figure posing in front of our Christmas tree. Merry undead Christmas.
365 Adventures in 2011: Day 365 – The Final Adventure
A second story balcony near our house gave me and Michelle our final adventure for the year. We watched the Magic Kingdom’s New Year’s Eve fireworks show from around 15 minutes away from the park, staying away from the crazy crowds and instead enjoying them completely by ourselves. From that vantage point, we not only saw that show, but at least 10 other small local displays from people shooting off fireworks in their yards. It was a great way to end the year and to conclude these 365 Adventures in 2011.
Happy New Year!
And a video of the finale too:
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365 Adventures in 2011: Day 364 – Tron Meon
Disney really missed a merchandise opportunity with this one. For Christmas, “Santa” got me a Meon picture maker, which is similar to a Light Brite but instead of illuminated pegs, this has glowing colored wires that can be bent and shaped over a picture. And while Disney has licensed their Cars and Princess franchises for Meon kits, they didn’t come out with a Tron one, which seems like an obvious choice for this new toy, and certainly the first thing I thought of when discovering it.
So despite the fact that my kit came with Star Wars backgrounds, I was determined to make it a Tron Meon. I found online a perfect light cycle promotional image for Tron: Legacy, printed it to the correct size, cut it out, and spent a couple hours outlining the red/orange and blue areas with Meon wire. The result is a purely awesome light-up Tron display that I will surely change out for more Tron pictures in the future. But for a while, I’ll enjoy this one.
365 Adventures in 2011: Day 363 – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
After Michelle had enjoyed both the book and Swedish movie, we saw new American version of “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” directed by David Fincher. It was a good movie, though the characters were far more interesting than the story itself, which was a bit too predictable. I did enjoy Rooney Mara’s portrayal of the title character and will gladly watch the upcoming two sequels with her, if they are made. Though I will likely watch the two Swedish versions long before that.
I was surprised to see a giant version of the somewhat revealing poster for the film in such an obvious spot outside the AMC Altamonte Springs theater though. It doesn’t offend me in the slightest and I applaud AMC for ignoring the ultra-conservatives and displaying this poster so prominently. It’s not the most revealing version of the poster, but that version would never fly in public in the United States, as it actually has (gasp!) partial nudity on it.
