Mr Libido Incognito wrote:

> cathyxyz wrote on 11 Sep 2005 in rec.food.cooking
>
> > Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> >
> > <snipping>
> > >
> > >
> > > Sounds like a good one! What did you serve it with?
> > >
> > > Seems many recipes I see for this call for smooth peanut butter
> > > which I don't like. I would also be inclined to use crunchy
> peanut
> > > butter.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > We love peanut sauce with chicken. We cut up the (skinless) chicken
> > into bite size pieces and soak in some EVOO, garlic and a bit of
> > ginger for an hour or two. Then we put the chicken on skewers to
> make
> > kebabs (sp) and then do them on the braai.... very, very good. We do
>
> > normally use smooth peanut butter, but I am sure crunchy would be
> just
> > as nice. We always use brown sugar, BTW.
> >
>
> Well I used crunchy Peanut buutter. But the small peanut
> bits...vanished.
> So I garnished my stir fry with sliced almonds for crunch. Which
> worked
> well.
>
> I'll readily admit to NOT following a recipe...Even the stir fry was a
> bit
> strange...Zuchinni, grape tomatoes, scallions, onions, celery, whole
> tiny
> button mushrooms, leftover cooked brocolli, a red bell pepper and 2
> cooked
> chicken breasts chunked up.
>
> The almonds and the grape tomatoes played starring roles in this stir
> fry
> at least taste-wise. And the sauce was good.

Oooops, wrote the following and went back to proof and found the
refereance was to grape TOMATOES. I make a chicken,grape & wine dish
and misread the sentance.While not really fond of fruit and meat combos,
i occasionally am gifted with a jar of home made (preserved) plums in a
rich purple juice. About this time of year i start dropping hints to
out of state, rural relatives that still do home canning and baking and
such, usually results in receiving a series of food packages beginning
in late november and culminating in a xmas deluge of various preserved
fruits and meats and pastries.

The plums make a very good sauce for a beef & asparagus or broccoli over
rice. And IMO can not be duplicated with ordinary, commercially
processed 'canned' plums. Don't even come close.
---
JL

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