The bad thing about recipes, is that I never really follow them exactly. I adjust things as I go along, and I never really measure precisely. That being said...
Ingredients:
Baby carrots, 1 red bell pepper, broccoli crowns, handful of snap peas, jar of pineapple chunks, ketchup, vinegar, brown sugar, cornstarch, Worcestershire sauce, dry mustard, garlic powder, rice noodles, sesame seeds, olive oil.
Cut carrots, pepper, broccoli (amounts vary based on personal preference) into bite sized pieces. Snip the ends off of the peas. Set aside.
Cut chicken into bite sized pieces. Set aside.
To make the sweet and sour sauce, mix about 1/4 each of pineapple juice, ketchup, brown sugar, and white vinegar in a saucepan. Add to that 1 to 2 TBSP of cornstarch, a dash of dry mustard, a pinch of garlic powder and 1 TBSP of worcestershire sauce. Mix it all together and cook over medium until it thickens. Turn off heat.
Add a little oil to a small pan. Cook the chicken all the way through. Once it's cooked, add some of the sweet and sour sauce and the pineapples. Turn off the heat.
Prepare rice noodles according to package (heat water to boiling, turn off the heat, add rice noodles and let set for 3 to 5 min according to my box). Let that process start as you begin cooking the veggies.
Add oil to wok, then add veggies in order...peas and broccoli first, then peppers and carrots after a few minutes. Let the veggies cook until they are as done as you would like them. Turn the heat back on the chicken for a minute or two to reheat it if it's gotten cool.
Drain the rice noodles, toss with the veggies and chicken mixture. Add more sauce to taste. Sprinkle with sesame seeds and enjoy!
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Focus & DOF are perfect. I think the background really compliment the food as well. Looks so tasty! ...while nobody is looking.... I might just try licking the monitor...
I really love the colors and the clarity of this photo. It looks like an ad in a magazine and is making me very hungry. Fantastic focus, complimentary background color, slightly off-centered (which works very well), chopsticks off to the lefthand thirds, overall great photograph- you just received my very first 10- Good Luck
I love the background color against the black china. This presentation is excellent and the food looks super......I am sure it will taste as good as it looks. The image is really excellent, and taken very well also.
Nice arrangement, composition and lighting. The exposure is very good and the colors stand out. The background color is good with this arrangement and the black border works.
The lighting is a little cold for food, making it seem like a cold served dish (broccoli heads look blue?). But thats really just nit picking. Sesameseeds are awesome interest, good color choices, great composition. Bumping.
Wow! The colors in the bowl really pop. My only quibble is the color of the table cloth. To my eye, it clashes with the red and orange of the vegetables. You might have done better with plain white.
Nice composition and colors. The lighting is a little brash. Softer lighting and a shallower DOF would have given this more of the recipe book appeal. Nicely done though, I like it.
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