ITT: I attempt to make stickless Satay, version "college". (pics++)

[RedWallflower24]

So, I got hungry last night and decided to once again test just how domestically challenged I am. My victim this time: chicken satay. The only problem was, I didn't have half the stuff the recipe called for, and I wasn't about to go out and buy $30 worth of ingredients that I might use only once. What is a girl to do? These pics document my trials, triumphs, and tribulations.

First, chicken BOOBIES were required. I found out later that cheap chicken = shitty taste. Duh.



I'm a stickler about not having visible fat on my meat, so this is the pruning and stripping of the boobies:

^just as a reminder, this stuff sucks.


My recurring Weapon of Choice: (I'm in college, stfu.)



The complimentary dish to my satay was supposed to be cold peanut sauced rice noodles. Here they are in the surprisingly attractive aZn package:



Here's the $4.19 jar of sauce I bought. I'll cut the crap here and tell you that it SUCKS. This will be discussed further as we go down...


I like to show my victims their torture devices beforehand...:



"resistance is futile":



The shitty chicken had some unidentifyable slime on it, so I gave it a good bath first. (No, it wasn't expired... it still had a good 6 days to go before it's "sell" date. This makes me want to have a small chicken farm in my apartment so I KNOW it's fresh...)

[RedWallflower24]

Things are going swimmingly for the rice noodles:



The cooking process begins with a few test victims. There was so much water in the chicken that it basically ended up boiling itself rather than grilling. This is probably why the more expensive "packed without added water" chicken would have been a superior choice:



Drained rice noodles:



Stupid me dumped mass amounts of the Thai kitchen peanut sauce onto the noodles before trying it. It was only after a noodle sample that I realized it sucked ass and therefore ruined my noodles. I decided to take action.



I ran to a local Thai place that I knew for sure had gooood peanut sauce. Here is what $2 bought me:



The boobies are cooked:



The dip test with the new, fresh peanut sauce:

[RedWallflower24]

Notice the little chunks of peanuts? That's key...



The Sa Bai Thong sauce earns the RedWallflower seal of approval:



The end result:



I ended up not eating ANY of the noodles since they sucked so much. The chicken was fairly spongy as well, so overall my Thai satay making experience was a failure.


Oh well, until next time, bon apetit.
-Red

[havsomecheese]

thong... haw haw

[Shad0w]

Shoulda just rinsed the noodles off.

[T.S.Sephiroth]

[MyWenis]

looks yummah

foreman grill

[1110]

wow this thread wasn't about having no friends

[havsomecheese]

oh yeah that thai kitchen stuff is gross too...

[Insurrectionist]

PIF me some

[huh?]

LEARN HOW TO COOK WOMAN

[Paints]

if you were my gf, you will never have to cook..

back into kitchen you...

[CANiSLAYu]

Where's my dinner invite?

[CrAzY DuTcHmAn]

Still better than the hot pockets I had...

[Bitterspeak]

of you eating it!