No Voyager today, E is working on her portfolio

[conuly]

And A doesn't particularly like watching TV, so that's right out.

I made the mistake of making peanut chicken a few weeks ago and now it looks like I'll have to make that every week. Which, I mean, yum, peanut chicken - but maybe I don't want to oh fuck I forgot to add limes to my grocery order brb

Okay! Crisis averted! We will be eating peanut chicken again this week, and apparently every week for the rest of my life, provided I can get enough limes.

In other news, the audiodrama I've been listening to while cooking can be summed up as "These people would probably commit fewer accidental genocides if they'd watched Star Trek before setting out instead of whatever the hell they did watch". I mean, it's all played for laughs, but wow, they kill a lot of people.

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Comments

[minoanmiss]

Peanut chicken!

What part of the lime are you using? If you're up to dealing with a half doen or so, you can grate all the zest and freeze it, and then juice all the juice and freeze that into ice cubes.

[conuly]

Me and graters, man... does human blood freeze well with lime zest?

[minoanmiss]

Here's a different, less bloody way to acquire citrus zest (but you do need to use several at a time)

ETA what happened to my formatting?!?!? peel off the zest with a vegetable peeler.

place the zest strips in a blender or mini food processor

blend/chop until fine

scrape out of the device onto platic wrap

pat into a thin rectangle

place in a freezer bag

freeze

break off pieces as needed

[gingicat]

Would you be willing to share the recipe?

[conuly]

I don't really use a recipe, per se. I just start with onions, garlic, and ginger, and when they're softened I add some bell peppers, cook the chicken breast, add peanut butter and coconut milk and as much soy sauce, fish sauce, and chicken broth as I think it needs. Oh, and something spicy. I always add something spicy depending on what I have on hand, so it might be chili crunch or gojuchung paste or, I don't know, something spicy. And then I finish with lime and cilantro if I have and serve it all with rice.

And I might not add bell peppers after all, or I might add carrots and/or sweet potatoes, or potatoes if I need to use them up, or celery for the same reason....

[conuly]

Or I go in another direction, nix the soy sauce and coconut milk, and use berbere. But I hardly ever do that.

[gingicat]

So either Thai or East(?) African?

[conuly]

Vaguely, yes.