**Daily chat Thread**6th Oct 08*

spud30

Sounds great BB.

You might have to explain how to make sweet & sour to me one of the days

Burlesque_Babe

Here you go Sammy - this is the recipe I've put together I'll be doing. Just need to test it for the timings etc tonight. I'll probably do double for Thursday for the numbers attending.

Sweet and Sour Chicken

Ingredients

2 chicken breasts, skinless
1 green pepper
4 pineapple rings (drained if in juice or syrup)
1 small onion
2 teaspoons of corn starch (cornflour)
3 tbsp vinegar
4 tbsp sugar
4 tbsp tomato ketchup
½ tsp sesame oil
1 tbsp vegetable oil
5 tbsp cold water

Method

1. Slice the chicken into small pieces (approx 1 inch cubes)
2. Place chicken into bowl and add corn starch (cornflour). Mix together
3. Half fill a wok with vegetable oil and heat
4. Place chicken in the pan and cook for 30 seconds – 1 minute
5. Drain onto paper towels
6. Slice the green pepper into pieces, similar size to the chicken
7. Dice the pineapple into cubes
8. Peel and cut onion, again into pieces similar to chicken and pepper
9. Heat wok/pan until smoke is seen
10. Add 1 tbsp vegetable oil around the side of the wok or pan
11. Add onion and green pepper and stir for 1-2 minutes
12. Add pineapple
13. Add vinegar, sugar, ketchup and sesame oil. Stir around for 2 minutes.
14. Add chicken and cook chicken through
15. Add cornflour and 5tbsp water. Mix and slowly add to the pan. Keep stirring to avoid lumps.

sammy115

Oooh, sounds good, sweet and sour chicken is what OH orders from the takeaway - I just thought sweet and sour came in a jar and you poured it over the chicken!

sammy115

beat me to it....:T

sammy115

I think I will be good at the heat wok until smoke is seen!

Bunnyinthelights

Evening all...

My store has gone into administration -Not all MFI's have-just ones that couldn't get rent deals accomplished so now it's up to the Big Cheese's (Chesses? Cheesie? Cheesii?) at Kroll to see whether or now I will have a job...So job hunting once again.

Called my OLD job at Alan Ward and I know for a FACT they have had 4 sales people quit in the last 2 weeks and yet when I called they said there was no postions going-so either it's REALLY bad there OR they don't want me back *sigh*

I'm feeling dead fed up and sad...another job will be my 4th this year! !!!!!!!

Ellidee

Aww (((((hugs))))) bunny hunny. Did you ever pursue that idea that you had a wee while ago to do 'makeovers' etc ? XX

Bunnyinthelights

Not really El, I should do...But feel so fed up right now, I can't be arsed...bad huh?

Ellidee

Bun that's understandable hun, you only just found out about MFI today. But maybe MAYBE , if you do lose your job, it will give you the 'push' to look into it further ?

sallyx

((((((((((((Bunny))))))))))) you poor thing. I think there will be a wave of redundancies, companies going into liquidation/administration because of the mess the country/world is in at the moment.

Hope that they come back to you with some good news hun
xx