Simple Sweet and Sour Chicken & Fried Rice

Ok ladies and gents...Notice any changes around here? Well last night...err more like this morning...2 am counts for this monring right? I was up changing the ole blog aounrnd. I dropped my blogspot last night. Oop's. I am pretty excited. Now hopefully I won't be getting lost in peoples readers anymore. I know some of you were having trouble knowing when I had updates and stuff. Still figuring out the RSS feedburner thing, but everything else is golden. The only issue is now I have to go through all my posts and relabel them. Yeah who knows when that will happen, but in the mean time I will be putting together a new and improved tutorials page and adding more fun stuff to the sidebar. So there you have it, my update. Oh and sorry to those reading early this morning. I am sure my blog was a big old hot mess. But we are more put together this morning, now that a few hours of sleep are under our belt.



Oh any tips for adding page breaks to posts?
 Debating adding it, wondering if anyone has done it to their blog.... 
pros..... cons?


Now onto today's post.....
get ready for The.Best.Recipe.Ever!

Seriously so good!

This sweet and sour chicken recipe is so simple and yummy to make. It is adapted from a recipe I found here. My whole family gobbled it up and it used up a lot of leftovers, which I always love. Here's how to make it:

Baked Sweet and Sour Chicken

The chicken coating:

3-4 boneless chicken breasts (thawed and cut into chunks)

salt + pepper

1 cup cornstarch

2 eggs, beaten

1/4 cup canola oil

The sweet and sour sauce:

3/4 cup sugar

4 tbs ketchup

1/2 cup vinegar

1 tbs soy sauce

1 tsp garlic salt

1 cup of pineapple chunks

       Start by preheating your oven to 350 degrees. Rinse your chicken breasts in water and then cut into cubes. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Dip chicken into the cornstarch to coat then dip into the eggs.  Heat your 1/4 cup oil in a large skillet and cook your chicken until browned but not cooked through. Place the chicken in a 9x13 greased baking dish. Mix all of your sweet and sour sauce ingredients in a bowl with a whisk and then pour evenly over the chicken. Bake for 30 minutes.

                                                                  

Now onto the rice...

Simple Skillet Fried Rice

3 cups cooked white rice (day old or leftover rice works best!)

3 tbs canola oil

1 cup frozen peas and carrots (I actually just used my leftovers in the fridge)

1 small onion, chopped

2 tsp minced garlic

2 eggs, slightly beaten

1/4 cup soy sauce

1/4 cup green onions

      On medium high heat, heat the oil in a large skillet or wok.  Add the peas/carrots mix, onion and garlic. Stir fry until tender. Lower the heat to medium low and push the mixture off to one side, then pour your eggs on the other side of skillet and stir fry until scrambled. Now add the rice and soy sauce and blend all together well. Stir fry until thoroughly heated!   

This is seriously so good. Why order Chinese takeout, 

when you can make it for cheap at home. So Yummy!

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