I'll be going on a few trips this spring and summer. It's mostly on the weekends, so I didn't think it would affect my Wednesday new food pickups. Just today, I extended my trip to Milwaukee. I'm going up there for the Summerfest concerts over July 4th weekend. Just today, I decided to extend my trip, and head up there on Wednesday, June 30th. I'll have to figure something out.
Today, I made chicken stir fry for dinner. I picked up a nice looking vegetable mix at Straub's the other day.
The only thing I used from Fair Shares was the brown rice. I used this recipe from Pinch My Salt. When Roy and I first decided to switch to brown rice from white, the time it took to cook was a detriment to me. I'd only ever made quick-cooking rice, and I stuck with Minute Rice's version of brown rice. Chicken stir fry was great for a quick meal. Cooking the rice for 40 minutes changes things. I don't know if I'll use this rice all the time, or go back to the quick cooking stuff if I don't have a lot of time to prepare dinner.
The rice turned out a lot better this time than last time. Roy thought it tasted noticeably better than the minute rice.
I have a problem sometimes when I cook stir fry. It seems like the vegetables let out water, and soon the food goes from sauteeing in peanut oil to boiling. It only happens sometimes, but I don't know what causes it. I added some more oil and turned the heat up a bit until it finished cooking.
The other thing I don't like is that our air conditioner blows right onto the stove top. (We live on the top floor of our building and need AC already. We don't need much heat in the winter though.) I can see the fire coming from the heating element react to the AC, blowing around. Sometimes just one side of the pan gets much heat. So I end up turning the AC off while I'm cooking. That's fine now, but it won't be when I need to cook something for 40 minutes on the stovetop when it gets really hot out.
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