Leftover cooking - Making a healthy meal before traveling to London! Rice with lemon-garlic chicken with peppers and spinach.

in life •  7 years ago  (edited)

It's the day before Bianca and I travel to London to visit our friends @ezzy and @rea.

Normally I'm pretty anxious about traveling.

(I wrote about this before....I'm not the greatest at leaving)

But this time is different.

This time I don't have to go to the airport and struggle to get there on time.

I'm going by train!

All I have to do is get to Central Station Rotterdam 30 minutes before the train leaves and that's easy!

You can also bring all the food and drinks that you want on board.

Fantastic!

Tonight we decided to eat all the leftovers in the fridge.

I hate to waste food in general.

I managed to make a pretty decent meal with what I found.

Rice with lemon garlic chicken with peppers and spinach.


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Ingredients: Red peppers, bell peppers, bacon, spring onions, 1 lime, rice, 2 chicken breasts, wok paste and a half a bag of Spinach. Not a bad leftover yield!


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As usual prep all your stuff before you start cooking. Cut all the vegetables and the chicken.


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Since Bianca ( @bkdbkd) thought me how to make rice the Brasilian way I don't make it any other way anymore. Put oil in a pan and fry some garlic then add the rice and fry for 2 minutes. Also, add salt.


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Now add the water to just under and let it simmer. The rice will slowly absorb all the water add more if you need to.


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Get a wok and heat it up then add oil.


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Add the bacon and fry. When it's a bit crispy add the chicken. Fry until it has a nice color.


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Time to add the vegetables. First all the peppers.


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Then add the spinach. It will shrink in seconds.


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Add the lime (just squeeze it by hand) and the wok paste.


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Yes! It's starting look like something I would like to eat! I added the spring onions and stirred all for 2 minutes.


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End Result! Great taste. Not bad at all for leftovers! I did also find some salad. Decided to eat that too. If last time London is anything to go on it won't be the most healthy experience :)


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Everything is getting clearer.
Good trip and stay warm.
Stay safe as well and share with us a lot of pictures and cool souvenirs.
Keep on steemit.

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

Really it s a healthy food, it looks delicious..I am a lover of rice..Good appetite and nice trip.

Thank you. It's good to start the trip on a healthy note :)

Yes really a healthy and protein food
.

wish you a very safe journey, my favouright witness

Thank so much man!

you are welcome

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

Amazing!!! The food looks colorful and delicious, thanks @exyle for sharing the recipe with top quality pictures and have safe journey to London.

Thank you!

Have Safe Journey
and
use Youtube For Self Work Like Cooking Etc..

This seems delicous. Always wanted to make cooking videos, and i think i'll start doing it on DTube. I had no idea you were from The netherlands? Anyway, greetings from Denmark, hope you guys will have a nice trip :)

Thank you! You should. D.tube is a great place!

I just love traveling. I liked London a lot. I watched football game between my country Slovenia and England at Wembley. Going by train is best way to go. Enjoy.

I wonder what it will be like! Thank you.

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

wonderfull idea your journey on train it is a good and feel free journy on train and the best experience of life when we have some long travel on traine always best wishes for you and speciall in you journy

Mark, Nice that you find an alternative way to travel. And it is much more convenient for you, so a very good choice.
Mhhh I wish to have those ingredients in my fridge as well, doesn’t look as left overs at all.
Dish looks delicious and I trust you had a good dinner with Bianca.
Have a good trip, enjoy and take care!

I hope working out is going as well as your meals, that looks pretty healthy.
I'm curious what restaurants you will visit in London. Safe travels !

Not that great with the workouts atm. After London is my queue to start again.

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

well you always love foods and new tasty recpies i get from you many time and its good to know that you dont waste food and dont like wasting food ,,, and also it will the your wonderfull journy via train with bianca wish u best for your travelling @exyle and hope we see your posts from london

Thank you so much! All the best!

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

you know how to cook :D

@exyle

I love cooking. Grilling even more!

It's nice to travel with a means comfortable to so you would not be nervous in your trip

Have a safe journey on the train and fun in London

thanks!

You remind me of myself, eating super healthy before an all out binge fest bwahahah.. Travel binges are the best though so enjoy yourself and take lots of pictures! lol :)

Healthy and tasty, safe travels and I'm sure we will see some pics of your time in London!

Thank you! I'm sure you will!

That's a nice meal. I had dinner with your sister, Thomas, and little Sam.
Call me tonight will you? I want to say goodbye before you go and I leave for France coming Sunday!

I am fascinated by the rice especially. I have dry roasted my rice before but never given it a bit of a fry with garlic. Sounds ace!

safe travels and enjoy london! :)

Thanks man!

looking delicious.. when is the dutch meetup..;-) can't wait to also taste some BBQ skills..

looks incredible!

rice is not very healthy :)
BUT SEE MUCH TASTY! I live in Turkey and we have some of my recipes similar. they are very similar to them. I'm sure it's big. thank you for sharing :)
by the way, what is "wok paste"?

I think that rice is very healthy! Why do you think that it's not?

Rice isn't healthy? That's new! Lol

That's a fine looking meal
Food wasting often comes from not knowing how to cook or handle and respect food in general.
Great post and nice travel ! :)

Looks healthy and delicious! Have an awesome time in London my friend. You @ezzy and @rea should consider coming out to Dublin, Ireland in March. @eroche, @misslasvegas and I are thinking about organizing a good ol' Irish STEEM meet up for the weekend of ST. Patricks Day!

Will there be beer? :)

We’re talkin Ireland on St Patty’s Day @exyle.........

Pretty good left overs dinner if you ask me. Enjoy your time with your friends in England. Have a safe trip.

wow so cool man on cool journy best of luck and have a safe journey exyle sir.
this tasty and so delecious food attract me to eat it now sir

Nice, have a great time! If you ever head up to Manchester, feel free to hit me up for some recommendations of places to go! (It’s mainly food, because FOOD GOOD)

wow wow perfect thing to do before travelling have a great time ahead bro :)

You never ever waste food that's a great positive thing we should all learn from you the dish looks so amazing and delicious thanks for sharing :)

That's perfectly made with love and deliciousness wow looks Incredible :D

Same here completely hate food waste cant believe how much gets chucked away, wow thats awesome going by train I would love to try that one day how long is the journey on tracks then @exyle ?

Around 4 hours it should take.

Dry frying rice of any kind seems to make the rice taste better even if u are just making a white rice! It gives it color & taste! Your dish looks delicious! Have fun on your adventure! Very new here, but as a foodie myself all the posts about food I just love!

Nice post and looks tasty. Never tried that wok pasta before.

Groeten uit Rotterdam ;)

makeithappen

Oh, I just remembered that I'm hungry when I have seen this.

Leftovers always makes the best dishes!

Teaching us how to cook rice, hmm

Congratulationes friend your food is very nice from see, I imagine to eat you deleite all audience

That you can make this dish with leftovers is great. good example for others. Good journey by train, the storm is almost gone so that will be fine!

Bon appetite @exyle!

Great time to be the biggest blogger here on Steemit isn't it ? :P

Very resourceful. When I have leftovers, I just make fried rice.

@exyle You must be an amazing cook! You make me hungry every time with your veggies! Enjoy your trip!

Best!

Excellent application of the remaining products, my friend and the fact that you are an excellent culinary expert, I understood long ago by your recipes and you do not cease to amaze us with this. The dish is just fine, as I'm also a big fan of different meats, and if it's with fragrant spices and vegetables, it's really amazing! Thank you Mark for a great recipe and let us know about your trip to London!

@exyle wow yum yum looking delicious i have water in my mouth

Amazing looking so testy.

If that what you cook with what's left over I would love to see what you make when your fridge is fully stocked . Safe travels !!!!!

That's made me hungry... peeling myself off the keyboard to the fridge 😂

Wow really healthy food! Could you maybe make a video please next time? when if possible is :)

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the food is delicious and what an experience that would have been simply outstanding....

Wow looking delicious...really a healthy food..your way of making food is awedome very neat and clean..i like chicken.. have a nice trip brother...@exyle

Hi sir, i'm here and I see your post, it's really awesome post

Amazing post

Good food

Amazing!!! The food looks colorful and delicious,the recipe with top quality pictures and have safe journey to London. thanks for sharing
@exyle

Bon appetite, my good friend. You must open your restaurant!

Absolutely it is a balanced foodstuff it seems yummy. I am an enthusiast of this kind of foodstuff. Good hunger and even wonderful getaway.

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Yummy.. its such a healthy food. I wanna eat this ❤️

Wow! You are good at what you do, i feel like dinning with you

thats so good and nice in your palms,@exyle

Vaoov very amazing

Looks delicious and you made me hungry just looking at it. I liked the presentation as it showed exactly how to prepare it and learned something new that I have to try it out also - that Brazilian made rice. Overall, what the eyes see the heart asks for.

Looks tasty and healthy meal!
Safe travel for u and looking forward for more pics!😊

Wow looks great! . Got to test it. Thank you so much and have a nice stay ;)

The food looks really delicious, I cook rice the same way too. Wishing you guys a great and safe trip to London :)

It looks very delicious.
Afiyet OLsun 👌

Wow.... i m salivating, well prepared meal...tank u for that tutorial

Rice is healthy! Vegetables and white meat. Very nice healthy meal! I forgot lemon and vitamin c for long winter.

It looks very delicious :)

@exyle

I love Spinach!

I am going to cook this dish, following your description ; )

today is my 2nd day on steemit and i happened to read this post..you have beautifully written that.very interesting stuff.i have never thought of joining cookery to a blog post.but you have done it in a perfect way.i m so impressed with your talents

I'm gonna try, but I can't promise anything hahah

Definately trying it!!!Looks delicious!!

wow. the food was very tasty :)

Have a great and fun filled journey and keep us updated about all the adventures :) the food is looking spicy hot wow

maybe it have good test !!!!!!!! it would have been good to eat🙂😘😘

Bro very nice thought their at the beginning i like that not to waste food... and also good to know that you going to London to visit your friends there have a fantastic time and great journey end result was just epic you already knew it who made it the best in the business ;)

WOW IT WAS AMAZING

Hey @exyle I hope you stay healthy as I can see.I am new to the steemit and i am following you from 2-3 days.I have some question regarding steemit.I mean like i have seen some post where it is written you have got 7.2% vote by xyz.So i want to know how exactly this steemit works and all.I hope if you can help me out in this a bit.

You cooked it well.

It looks too delicious for me to handle.
I need help, I'm addicted to your food.

yumy. yup its really healthy food

@exyle Food is a source of energy and spirit when traveling away .. and your cuisine is delicious even I want to taste your food .. thank you for posting the way of making these food

Nice

Damn. getting hungry :)

But my learning was the rice - I'll try it next time also the "brazilian" way

Looks delicious! Gotta try it out someday soon =)

@exyle Hope you enjoy your trip man, sorry for sending late, am new to steemit, I join yesterday, am looking forward to meet you if I hav the chance, hope am welcome

The rice look took-away, what a good Chef you are. Have a safe trip