Any fave dishes you like to make?
YES!
I'm not sure if these count as proper dishes but I make them once or twice every week.
Chicken Stir Fry
I learned how to make this from my mother since she literally made it everyday once upon a time. I am very visually oriented and I love how colourful it is and how it has a different taste everytime you make it!
Recipe
All of these can have whatever amounts you prefer, there isn't really a set measurement.
Ingredients
Chicken breast
Red pepper
Yellow pepper
A bit of garlic
Onion
Brocolli
Carrot sticks
Baby corn
Mushroom
Black pepper
Salt
For making the sauce I use a VERY generous amount Worcester sauce and soy sauce and mix the two together with a bit of corn starch for thickness (the corn starch is a personal preference of mine, I don't really like when the sauce is watery)
Method
I was taught to cook every vegetable separately but that takes way too long so I cook the onion and garlic together in olive oil, then add the peppers. When the peppers have fried a bit I add the mushrooms. The mushrooms have a bit of water inside them so they kind of neutralise the oil and make things more moist and suitable for the brocolli, baby corn and carrot sticks. When all the vegetables are cooking all together add your salt and pepper.
The chicken is meant to be cut into small cubes. In a separate pot, fry the chicken till it's golden. When it's ready introduce it to the vegetable mix and make sure to mix it together thoroughly.
The last part is to add the sauce into the vegetable-chicken mix. If you added corn starch to the soy and Worcester sauce make sure to let the sauce simmer for a minute so that the corn starch is cooked as well.
Now you have your stir fry ready to serve!
Challah
When I was taking Judaism classes my teacher would always recommend us to try and make challah for our friends and family even if we were goy. His philosophy was that we needed to go through the experience of bringing the people we love together to share the bread. It was a form of physical learning.
I loved the whole process of making the bread. I loved the symbolism, the actual act of making the bread and I most of all, loved sharing it with my friends and my teacher.
There are so many braiding methods on the internet as well as recipes, I recommend you experiment with different ones if you're actually going to make the bread. Make sure to also understand and appreciate the origins of challah. What makes it special, when is it made, why is it made and so on.
I'm basically a walking religious text book and whenever I share the challah I also share a lengthy religious, cultural and historical lesson about the bread.
It's amazing, I probably will never buy bread again. Something about buying bread feels emotionless and depressing when you get used to making your own bread.
That's all
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