The Hunter's Journal

So, today, despite the cold, I had to go to the store. I needed something for dinner, and I looked around. There weren't a lot of options (because this wasn't the big store with more options) but it's a regular store, so enough.

Anyway, here are your ingredients:

About 2lbs Chicken tender loins. (It was on sale)
Kale
Shredded carrots
1 apple
Olive oil
Spices
Rice (I used white, brown can also be used)

Heat olive oil (1tablespoon maybe?) in your pan on medium heat. Chop your chicken into bite sized pieces. Once the oil is popping just a little, add your chicken. Stir it to coat the chicken and then go through your spices.

I used: chopped onion, garlic powder, pepper, Italian seasoning, and cumin.

Stir everything together and make sure the seasonings distribute over the chicken. Cover and let simmer on a lower heat.

Chop up an apple. I used golden delicious. Chop it into pretty small chunks. Add to the pot and stir. Then add shredded carrots. (I used a small handful? Use whatever looks right for you.)

Cover and simmer for about 10 minutes or so. (I read Tumblr/answered an email)

Come back and rough chop some kale. This, I really did not measure at all. So, add what you'd like. It needs stirred in. I hovered over it because kale (something I've never used before) looks horrible when overcooked (I looked things up on the internet).

Once your rice is done (I have a rice cooker, so it's literally, thrown it in and set to cook!) serve your chicken and veggies over the rice. Salt and pepper to taste.

Some notes:

I want to try, next time, with pineapple, instead of apple. The apple flavor got lost in everything else, but I think the pineapple would give it a nice bite.

Ginger is one spice I don't use much but would probably go in this dish very, very nicely. It's very open to experimentation which is nice.

If I do use apple again, I'm going to try something with a bit more bite. The golden delicious just didn't cut it.

I would not recommend putting salt in this. I think it would destroy the rest of the recipe. I was going to at first, but the other spices/flavors really said that salt wouldn't go well, when I tried it.

( Picture of food )