Honey Sriracha Chicken

Welcome to our weekly Foodie Friday link up! I’m linking up with Annmarie from the Fit Foodie Mama, Emily from Whatever Floats Your Oats, Esther from Chocolate Runner Girl, and Cassandra from Powered By Bling, to create awesome healthy recipes each week!

Today’s theme = Fire It Up! Make sure you hop around to check out all the amazing recipes in this link up and feel free to add your recipes as well!

Back in February, I won the Oatmega/Al Dente Pasta giveaway over at The Nutritionist Reviews, and I’ve been wanting to make something with the pasta ever since! (Recipe adapted from here!)

Honey Sriracha Chicken

Ingredients:

• 4 chicken breasts, cut into bite-sized pieces
• 1/4 cup cornstarch
• pasta of choice

(Sauce)

• 1 cup water
• 3 tbsp Sriracha
• 4 tbsp soy sauce
• 4 cloves garlic, minced
• 1/8 cup brown sugar
• 3 tbsp honey
• 2 tbsp cornstarch + 2 tbsp cold water
• crushed red pepper flakes (to taste)
• sesame seeds, for garnish

Instructions:

1. Add the chicken + cornstarch to a ziploc bag, then shake to coat.
2. In a medium saucepan, combine the sauce ingredients (other than the 2 tbsp cornstarch + 2 tbsp water) and stir. Bring to a boil over medium heat, then quickly whisk in the cornstarch + water until dissolved. Reduce the heat to low.
3. Add a little EVOO to a large pan over medium heat and add the chicken. Let cook until browned + chicken is cooked through and no longer pink in the middle. Add the sauce and stir to coat.
4. Sprinkle with crushed pepper flakes and serve over pasta or rice.

Also…Tricia from A Couple of Dashes nominated me for the Versatile Blogger Award!

The Versatile Blogger Award is for those blogs that bring something special to your life.  In picking your nominees, you are to consider the quality of the writing, the uniqueness of the subjects covered, the level of love displayed in the words on the virtual page. Or, of course, the quality of the photographs and the level of love displayed in the taking of them.

Technically, I’m supposed to tag 10 people, but we know how gifted I am with that. Feel free to answer any of these in the comments! <3 I’d love to hear your thoughts!

1. What is something people might be surprised to learn about you?
   I had major struggles with my basic science courses in college and barely scraped through organic chemistry. By “barely scraped through,” I do not mean an A- Asian-fail (tis a major pet peeve of mine).I once got an 18% on one of my ochem midterms and wanted to bike in front of a bus (but it wasn’t going fast enough). I ended up passing because a 30% was somehow still considered a C- (…), but my goodness, that was a freakishly demoralizing year.(How the hecks did I ever make it into medical school, you ask?) I think it was due to my persistence + super-severe upward trend (+ perhaps also my spahhkling personality)–I aced most of my upper division courses whilst still taking twice the usual number of courses, holding down a couple jobs, internships, + club officer positions, so it worked out!
2. Have you had your 15 minutes of fame?
   I have not, but I am totally fine with that. I get really uncomfortable with being the center of attention, and enjoy flying under the radar whenever possible! How did I make it as a music performance major? Magic. :O
3. Have you ever met someone famous?
   No one that I can recall!
4. I feel the most beautiful when I’m ___________
   Helping others! Seeing the smiles on their faces brings me joy that is unparalleled by most other things in life (unless we’re talking about salmon sashimi; see #7 for details).
5. What’s something you hope will never come back in style?
   I’d say Uggs with miniskirts, but I think that might still be a thing.
6. What song reminds you of your high school years?
   I am a music fiend, so I’m gonna name artists instead of a single song. >> Something Corporate, Sugarcult, Relient K, Savage Garden, Ayumi Hamasaki, Utada Hikaru, Mika Nakashima, Olivia Lufkin, M2M, 98 degrees, Michelle Tumes, Linkin Park, Evanescence, Death Cab For Cutie, BB Mak, Michelle Branch, Sweetbox, Trish Thuy Trang, Devotion, Westlife, All 4 One…and I’m just gonna stop there, or this will be endless.
7. If you could eat one dish for the rest of your life, what would it be?
   A ginormous bowl of salmon sashimi with avocado, fresh mango, and spinach or cucumbers on a bed of brown rice or quinoa!
8. What is one place on your travel must-see bucket list?
   Fairy pools in the Isle of Skye (Scotland)! <3
   
   
9. What is one race on your race bucket list?
   Save for the one and only race I’ve ever run (the Nike Women’s Half in 2010) I’m really not much for running. I want to do a Tough Mudder at some point in my life though!
   

   Oh em gee, I finished and didn’t die!

10. What is one thing you did as a child that you’re embarrassed to look back on now?
    I was told as a child that I’d gain magical powers if I stared at the sun…does that count? :[

End-of-Week-ish Recap!

• Have you read Sarah McCoy’s The Mapmaker’s Children? It was an amazing book! <3 But it also broke [what’s left of] my heart. :[
• May 19th was World IBD Day, so I talked about Crohn’s Disease for Medical Mondays!
• Ever wonder about West Virginia’s regional foods (includes lots of food pictures :D!), or feel like you aren’t enough? (Totally related topics, I know…) Find out more about said noms + Project I Am Enough!
• I finished my surgery rotation last month, and actually had a super awesome time with it! :D
• This month’s Recipe ReDux theme was on kitchen staples! Cool down with my 4-Ingredient Chocolate Green Smoothie recipe!

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Next week’s feature ingredient is…Bananas!