Lettuce Chicken Wraps

These are so delicious and light. Delectable. Savoury! And simple. Here's what you are going to need:

• 3 chicken breasts
• 2 tbsp black pepper
• Olive oil for cooking
• 1/2 of a red onion
• 2 red peppers
• 200g Mushrooms
• Lettuce
• Italian dressing

And here is how to make it:

1. Put some olive oil in a pan and turn the heat up to medium. Slice up the chicken breasts into half inch strips and throw them in the pan. Toss with black pepper. Don't overcook them - should be pretty quick as they are sliced pretty thin. 
2. While the chicken is cooking, slice up the onion and red peppers. 
3. Once the chicken is done, set aside on a plate. Throw red peppers into the pan for a minute or two. Then throw in the onions.
4. Cook together for 3-5 minutes depending on your desired tenderness. You may want to put in a bit more olive oil at this point to de-glaze some of that deliciousness. In the last minute or two add the mushrooms. Cook longer if you like them really tender.
5. Throw in the chicken to heat it up again.  
6. Carefully peel a whole lettuce leaf (or as many as you're going to eat... I can pretty much guarantee you're going to want more than one...) Wash, drain and pat dry on some paper towel. 
7. Put some of the chicken and veggie mix into the lettuce. Drizzle with Italian dressing. Wrap it up!

Eat! Enjoy! Savour!

Something Special for the writers/artists/journalers/hopeless romantics in your life

Want to make something awesome for someone? How about a book! This is a pretty inexpensive gift, both for time and money. I think this took me all told about 3 hours, and that included taking pictures and so forth. Cost is somewhere in the range of $20-30.

Step by step instructions can be found by clicking on the link to my public dropbox folder here.

Buffalo Blue Cheese Chicken Sandwich

This is one of my favourite sandwiches to make. Spicy yet creamy with a bit of crunch. Here's what you'll need:

• 1 can (345 g) Kirkland chicken breast (or if you feel inclined... 1 chicken breast chopped up finely should do)
• 1-2 tbsp olive oil
• 1/4 of a red onion
• 1/2 of a red pepper
• 2 tbsp blue cheese dressing
• 2 tbsp Franks Red Hot Sauce (3 if you like things spicy)
• Your favourite bread or buns

And here is how to put all this deliciousness together:

1. Cut red pepper and red onion into small squares. Keep em separated.
2. Put some olive oil in a pan on medium heat. 
3. When oil has heated up throw in the red pepper.

4. After the peppers have started to soften (2-3 minutes) throw in the onions

5. Cook together for 1-2 minutes. 
6. Put chicken into a container with peppers, onion, blue cheese dressing, and hot sauce. Mix it up.
   
7. Place liberally on your favourite toasted bread or bun. Top with thin sliced dill pickles to add some extra flavour to the dish. Enjoy!
   

Marty! You're just not thinking fourth dimensionally!

The world we view is generally considered to be 3 dimensional - we can view width, height and depth. But another dimension that can be considered is time. 

Marty and Doc Brown are planning their return to their own time in this clip from Universal Picture's Back to the Future III. They've travelled back to the year 1885 to the old west, and they need gasoline to reach the 88 mile per hour speed required for time travel. There's no gasoline in 1885! So the plan was to use a train to push them to that speed. But they just don't have the space, they would reach 88 miles per hour only a very short distance before the end of the line. It would be suicide to try and drive off this bridge! But in the future where they are travelling the bridge will be there to drive onto. When they reach 88 miles per hour there will be a seamless transition returning them to the time they were from and solid ground.

These words meant little to me when I first heard them. But then I thought a bit more... there is great wisdom in these words whether you have a time machine or not. This changed the way I look at long term planning. Can I think right now how something will be in five years? What opportunity will be right here based on the progress that I will make or that will be made in my environment?

What is your house going to look like in five years? The bathroom floor, your furnace, the stove, what is going to need to be fixed or replaced? How are you going to improve and renovate your home? Your car - are those tires really going to last the whole time you own it? If nothing is done will they still be in working order in two years? Three? 

How about your work? What is your work going to look like next year? Or the year after that? Or even 10 years down the road? Are you going to stay where you are or move on? Will that job you see match with the life you see yourself living? Doc Brown and Marty saw a big empty gorge in front of them in the wild west, but the future brought a bridge! Can you see the bridge being built in your career or life goals?

When you look at your life and you don't see success, remember - you're just not thinking fourth dimensionally! Or if you look at your life and do see success... it will just get better. Do you want to rely on someone else and hope the bridge will show up, or are you going to build it yourself?

What should you expect from these posts? Food. Good food. And some random thoughts on life. But mostly good food! Stay tuned!