Andrew was the mastermind and expert chef this week for our second challenge. He scoured cookbooks and we talked about what to make for days. He was off at a work retreat for a few days so the cooking had to wait and when he returned and we tackled both challenges in one night.
The process was elaborate and Andrew remarked more than once how ridiculous this recipe was for needing 12 different bowls ready to give and receive a variety of parts of the ingredients. Bowls for sauces, bowls for cooked things to be added to the mix again later, bowls for everything; basically, lots and lots of prep and it truly required finesse (which A has is spades). Andrew is a seasoned chef having cooked in all sorts of environments, from fine dining to burger flipping, so there was no question he could pull off this complicated dish.
As you can see above, while cooking Andrew had a beer in his (or my?) favorite coozy!
Here is the finished dish. It was certainly sweet and sour but we decided that perhaps next time to cut some of the vinegar as we both were a bit puckered due to the sour. Next time we would also add more red pepper. We like spicy food and the amount required by the recipe was not nearly enough for our tastes.
The chicken was juicy, the broccoli cooked perfectly, and the cashews really made the dish complete.
As you can see, it was disgusting and we could barely choke it down :)
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