simmering sundays: the beginning.

I have decided to institute a recurrent posting process. Translation? I'm starting a new series I'm calling Simmering Sundays where I take a new recipe from Food Gawker, make it, take photos, rate it, and share it with you guys. Pretty fun, eh? This gives me an excuse to always be trying new things. Also, it helps me get a friend off of my back who loves to talk stern to me when I go more than a week without posting (I send my love, Mark). Plus, you get to see if I think the recipe I try is good so you don't have to go through so much of the trial-and-error process! So enough with all this blabber, it's reminding me too much of meetings and I SERIOUSLY dislike meetings of any matter, and on to the food!!

I'm starting Simmering Sundays off with a bang. Literally. And Literarily. My first experiment is called Bang Bang Chicken. Here's the link. I've actually been to the restaurant, Bonefish, that the author talks about and had Bang Bang Shrimp. So delicious and spicy and crunchy and insert-other-positive-adjectives. Finding out that I didn't have to splurge and buy shrimp? Even better. However, you'll need a couple of possibly obscure pantry items. 

An Asian hot sauce, Sriracha, dried basil leaves, garlic powder, rice vinegar, and panko (Japanese bread crumbs). Please ignore the cumin, I misinformed myself. 

The recipe is easy enough, but the breading process takes a while. I figured out a way to keep my fingers cleaner and make it go by semi-quicker, though!

Please make sure you cut your chicken into bite-size pieces. This missed quality inspection, somehow. My dad heard about it.

The best thing about panko? It makes for super crispy fried stuff. Mmmmm.....

 This is the chicken with all the spicy goodness. 

 Upon a bed of rice!

This is my sister. She loves eating my cooking. And eating with the rest of the family while constantly being told to put her phone away by her sister and father. We were at dinner - texting can wait, man. 

Overall, this recipe was bangin'. *Enter in film clip of Robin Williams in Hook after eating at the Lost Boys' table "Bang-a-rang." The breading was kind of long, but we did have a lot of chicken. It tasted delicious on rice and was just the right amount of spice. I can't wait to have this for leftovers. 

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