The Domestic Goddess

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Copyright © 2004 by Jennifer Hamilton

5 February 2004 - "Heaven loves the man who eats well"*

* Old Chinese saying

Last night was comfort food night...and comfort Jenn night, I suppose. S. went out and got Harvey's hamburgers to feed me when I was too hungry to cook. Why so tired? Well, I had a bit of a breakdown yesterday when I realised that Jasmine (our adorable kitty) had nibbled through the power cord (revision: extremely expensive, no clones available, Mac power cord) for my laptop, rendering my computer useless. Why not use the battery?!?! someone screamed, I think. Well...the battery had recently given up the ghost after two years of use and it only lasts about ten minutes on full charge. So I was a mess (S. did get me a new one...bless him) and needed comfort food at dinner last night.

I figured I couldn't pull that off two nights in a row and looked through my recipe binder for something that I hadn't made before. When I came across the recipe for Honey-Soy Chicken that I had liberated from a lonely magazine in my doctor's office a few months ago I think "Ah-ha!" escaped my lips. But what to serve alongside?

Epicurious to the rescue, as usual. I thought I'd give a cabbage side-dish another chance and since the main course was an Asian-inspired chicken dish, when I came across this recipe for an Asian Noodle Salad I thought it would be a perfect combination (and S. is a big fan of Asian food, so this seemed to be the ticket to try to pay him back for being the heroic take-care-of-Jennifer-guy yesterday).

I made the salad first so it could go in the fridge until dinner. I did make a few changes to the original recipe because I didn't have enough green onions (honestly, who at this exact moment has 14 green onions nestled in their vegetable crisper?) and I did have a 1/2 cup of sugar snap peas just begging to be used up. Also, not being a bit fan of eggs in things other than egg-specific foods I omitted the hard-boiled eggs from the recipe entirely.

We ended up with a rather delicious Asian feast...with left-over noodle salad for lunch on the weekend. Yummy, yummy, yummy, I've got love in my tummy...Sing it with me!