Growing Pains

Wow!  The bakery is growing alot right now. We are now in California currently we have a small presence but we are about to have a much larger one. I think its because we have just introduced our bakers dozen value pack. It seems to be going over really well. Anyway this is all keeping me very busy which keeps me from updating my blog on a regular basis so please forgive me.

I did want to tell you about this really great asian dish I made the other night. I used Quorn chicken strips and my family didin't even know. This is how I did it.

Clean and slice into strips:
Broccoli
Carrots (baby ones are sweet and tender)
onions
Mushrooms (slice like you normally would, if they are very wide cut in half)
And any other vegetables you think would go good or you have in your fridge
Wash a couple handfulls of fresh spinach (more if you like alot of greens)
METHOD
Heat a wok or skillet and add enough peanut, coconut or sesame oil to coat bottom of pan. Throw in the veggies all except mushrooms and spinach and some red pepper flakes and toss around in oil, sautee until just beginning to get tender. Add the Quorn chicken and mushrooms continue to sautee stirring occassionally. Season with garlic, ginger, curry powder and liquid aminos. Sprinkle with a little brown sugar or fructose. Cover and let simmer about 3-5 more minutes. Be carefull not to let veggies over cook stir in about a tablespoon or 2 of General Tso's bottled sauce if you want and then add the spinach last and toss with all of the juices. This is great without the General Tso's but it adds a sweet/tangyness and a little more juice to spoon over rice.
The great thing about this is, like all of my recipe suggestions; it's just that a suggestion ment to teach you how to put flavors together so that you can use what you learn from one recipe and make adjustments to turn it into your own. For instance this recipe can be made your own by using as much of the spices as you like. If you like garlic use more if you don't like ginger go light on that. Also if you use denatured coconut oil it will be tasteless but if you don't it will give it a nice coconut flavor and how kool to add some unsweetened coconut flakes to this. Or serve over coconut rice.
Another idea would be to substitute another green or seaweed for the spinach adjusting the seasoning to match the flavor of the green for instance omitting the sugar.
Enjoy over your favorite rice or try over quinoa for added protein.

I love passing on these ideas and would love to know what you do with them so if anyone wants to let me know how they tweeked it to make it their own I would really like to hear form you.