For the sauce:

1/4 Cup Chicken Broth

4 tbsp Rice Vinegar

2 tbsp pickled ginger, sliced

2 tbsp chopped ginger, ideally from a tube of prepared ginger paste

1 tbsp chopped cilantro, ideally from a tube of prepared cilantro

4 skinless, boneless chicken breasts

1 cup flour, powdered ginger (optional) and salt and pepper

2 cups hot, cooked rice

Slice chicken breasts into strips. Coat with flour. For an extra ginger taste, add powdered ginger to the flour before coating chicken strips. Add salt and pepper to taste and fry the chicken in 2 tbsp butter and 2 tbsp oil of your choice until brown and crisp. Add the sauce, stir well, cook for 1 minute more then serve over hot, cooked rice.

This afternoon there are thunderstorms rolling through our area. My one cat is absolutely terrified of them. I certainly didn’t like them as a child but as an adult I can occasionally enjoy a cracking storm. Truthfully, I still don’t like them at night as the lightening is so much brighter and so you know when those deafening crashes of thunder are about to hit. It definitely helps to know God created thunderstorms along with everything else. I know that no matter how severe the storm is, He is in control. Isaiah 4:6 tells us “And there will be a tabernacle for shade in the daytime from the heat, for a place of refuge, and for a shelter from storm and rain.” Likewise, several chapters later we read “For You have been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm,” Isaiah 25:4. Are the storms of life getting to you? Do you cringe when the lightening flashes and the thunder crashes? Run into the everlasting arms of the Lord Jesus Christ. He will see you safely to the other side. You can rest in Him. “He calms the storm, so that its waves are still. Then they are glad because they are quiet; so He guides them to their desired haven.” Psalm 107:29-30, NKJV.

2 radishes, chopped

1 carrot, chopped

5-6 bok choy, chopped

1-2″ fresh ginger root, chopped or grated

Striploin steak, cut into strips

Rice noodles, 1 package, softened according to package directions

1/2 cup marmalade

1/8 cup low sodium soy sauce

Place 1-2 tbsp oil, vegetable or olive, in a frying pan with the radishes, carrot and boy choy. Once cooked, 5-8 minutes, push to the side of the pan and add the striploin steak. Fry quickly. Remove the steak and add the ginger and stir fry. Add the steak back in and then add 1 package of rice noodles. In a separate, small saucepan melt the marmalade and the soy sauce together. When melted and nicely mixed, add to the pan of stir fry. Dish up and enjoy!

 

 

I was reminded yesterday of the verse in Isaiah that tells us our God comforts us like a mother comforts her child. “As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you; and you shall be comforted in Jerusalem,” Isaiah 66:13 NKJV. Isn’t it wonderful that our heavenly Father Who loves us as only the perfect Parent can, comforts us like a mother would? He has our best in mind and even though the way can be dark and difficult at times, He never leaves us, nor forsakes us, Hebrews 13:5. Be encouraged dear one today. He knows what you are going through and He is with you in it.