Wondering what to eat everyday is one of my major life struggles..
If you happened to stop by Tuesdays post you would've read about my food issues,
no bread,
no eggs,
no this,
no that..
NO fun!
Booooo.
That's where my bloggin' BFF Fran steps in.
She blogs over at The Hungry Homemaker Blog and last week she posted about stir frys.
Light bulb - STIR FRYS!
Yes!
No bread, no eggs, no problem!
Growing up we were a strictly meat and potatoes kind of family.
Let me tell you that gets old real fast..
I in turn gave up potatoes for a large portion of my life..
To this day I still can't look at a roast beef.. (puke)
The only noodles we had on the regular were coated in yellow powder and tend to go by the nickname KD..
So when I saw Frans post I thought, challenge accepted Homemaker ;)
Now I'm just going to list a bunch of thoughts that followed..
There will be a lot of """""""" these, anything within those quotations imagine the voices in my head speaking them..
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"lets start with the basic sauce"..
The sauce has basic in the name, how hard can it be!
Naïve Holly.. Naïve.
Go to the grocery store..
Can't find any rice wine vinegar..
Ok move on to another ingredient, ginger..
"Dang it Foodland, no ginger to be found"
Ok moving on, whole new sauce choice...
"I really want Shrimp, I don't think orange sauce is the best choice for shrimp I would rather orange with chicken"
"Sweet and sour... but again, I can't find any rice white vinegar!"
Ok we were down to the final call..
Lemon.
I walk up to the produce..
NOT A FREAKING LEMON IN THE ENTIRE STORE.
Turns out I forgot I lived in small town Newfoundland where trucks don't always arrive on time and fresh food supply tends to run low, often.
I drive to the smaller, only other grocery store in town.
PRAISE!
They have lemons!
I buy 2.. better safe than sorry.
and man would I have been sorry..
See bottom photo for what happened when I cut into that first lemon.
My head nearly exploded but all was well, my back up lemon saved the day!
Enough rambles, here is a pic of the goods...
That's right, I'm a stirfryer!
Shrimp in lemon sauce, whoot whoot!
Now I want you to go to Frans stirfry sauce blog - here
Look at her photo then come back and tell me if mine compares!
I'm so excited, I really think this could be a regular menu item.
Its so versatile! I added mushrooms because we love mushrooms.
Next time I think I will sub chicken for the shrimp.
Now if only I could find rice wine vinegar!!
Dang you vinegar!!!
Come to my town!!!
^ Happy Canada Day!
Other than that, FYI our house is still for sale.
I feel like we are at a stand still, come'on buyers move to the rock!
^This chick
Is this - close to walking without holding onto anything.
He also loves mixing pattens.
#fashionista
Yeah that's a cat tail.
Yup my house is a mess.
And now...
How about them lemons????!!
is it rotten???
is it infected??
why is life so cruel????
Alls well that ends well, I'm going to binge on my leftover shrimp ;)
Do you like stirfry?
Do you have a lazy lady recipe for me to try?
Dish it!!
aahhhh what a SAD LEMON! I'm pretty excited you might be moving..hopefully somebody buys your house...if they can find it ;)
ReplyDeleteIt looks great!! I was going to message you to see how it turned out! Whenever you make the trip out to Ontario, we'll stir fry together!! Lol what's up with that lemon?! Yuck! Thank god for the backup lemon! Good thinking!
ReplyDeleteBaha haaa ha! That is hilarious. Stir fry is not my best work, but my husband is actually good at it. Sorry the stores were so cruel to you. The end result looks great though!
ReplyDeleteLol omg that is my kind of luck!! Im glad you were able to make your stir fry in the end though!
ReplyDeleteStir fry, yummy! Gross lemon, not so much... I probably would have taken it back to the store, lol. actually , no, probably not because it's like a 10 minute drive into town, so never mind. So frustrating about the beginning of your stir fry saga, but at least you tell the story well, so all's well that ends well, right? ;)
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