Chicken Lo Mein

Ingredients

  • 1 cup Green Peppers – chopped
  • 1 cup Onions – chopped
  • 2 stalks Celery – chopped
  • 1 Carrot – chopped
  • 2 cloves Garlic – minced
  • High Temp Cooking Oil
  • 2 Uncooked Boneless Chicken Breasts
  • Noodles (Like Linguini)

Sauce

  • 2/3 cup soy sauce
  • 1/2 cup chicken broth
  • 1/3 cup rice wine or rice vinegar
  • 3 1/2 Tbsp. sugar
  • 1 Tbsp. sesame oil
  • 1 tablespoon minced garlic
  • 1 tablespoon minced ginger
  • 2 Tbsp. cornstarch

Zhenren – The True Man

There must first be a True Man before there can be true knowledge. What do I mean by a True Man? The True Man of ancient times did not rebel against want, did not grow proud in plenty, and did not plan his affairs. A man like this could commit an error and not regret it, could meet with success and not make a show. A man like this could climb the high places and not be frightened, could enter the water and not get wet, could enter the fire and not get burned. His knowledge was able to climb all the way up to the Way like this.

The True Man of ancient times slept without dreaming and woke without care; he ate without savoring and his breath came from deep inside. The True Man breathes with his heels; the mass of men breathe with their throats. Crushed and bound down, they gasp out their words as though they were retching. Deep in their passions and desires, they are shallow in the workings of Heaven.

The True Man of ancient times knew nothing of loving life, knew nothing of hating death. He emerged without delight; he went back in without a fuss. He came briskly, he went briskly, and that was all. He didn’t forget where he began; he didn’t try to find out where he would end. He received something and took pleasure in it; he forgot about it and handed it back again. This is what I call not using the mind to repel the Way, not using man to help out Heaven. This is what I call the True Man. …

This was the True Man of old: his bearing was lofty and did not crumble; he appeared to lack but accepted nothing; he was dignified in his correctness but not insistent; he was vast in his emptiness but not ostentatious. Mild and cheerful, he seemed to be happy; reluctant, he could not help doing certain things; annoyed, he let it show in his face; relaxed, he rested in his virtue. Tolerant, he seemed to be part of the world; towering alone, he could be checked by nothing; withdrawn, he seemed to prefer to cut himself off; bemused, he forgot what he was going to say. …

Therefore his liking was one and his not liking was one. His being one was one and his not being one was one. In being one, he was acting as a companion of Heaven. In not being one, he was acting as a companion of man. When man and Heaven do not defeat each other, then we may be said to have the True Man. (6, 大宗師, tr. Watson 1968:77-80)

This excerpt is from Zhuangzi regarding zhenren – The True Man

Santa Fe Stuffed Peppers

For the filling
1/2 lb 99% lean ground turkey
3/4 cups canned black beans, rinsed and drained
3/4 cups frozen corn
1 hot pickled serrano pepper, chopped (or jalepeño) more to taste
1 large diced tomato
1 cloves garlic, minced
3 tbsp chopped onion
2 tbsp chopped cilantro, plus more for garnish
1 tsp cumin
kosher salt to taste

For the peppers
3 red bell peppers, cut in half lengthwise
1/3 cup reduced sodium, fat free chicken broth
9 tbsp shredded reduced-fat Sargento Monterey Jack cheese
1 tbsp chopped scallions, for garnish
From: Skinny Taste

Chicken Tikka Masala

Serves 2

For the Marinade
1 cup plain yogurt
1 tbsp lemon juice
1 tsp garam masala
1 tsp garlic powder
½ tsp black pepper
1 tsp coriander
1 tsp cumin
½ tsp sea salt
1 large uncooked chicken breast cubed

For the Masala Sauce
1 1/2 tbsp olive oil
1 white onion diced
1 green pepper diced
2 cloves garlic minced
1 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp cumin
1 tsp ginger
1 tsp garam masala
½ tsp black pepper (1 tsp for mild heat)
1 tsp paprika
1 tsp sea salt
4 oz. tomato paste
1 cup plain yogurt
1 cup coconut milk
¼ cup chopped cilantro

Modified from: The Fed Up Foodie

Homemade Rice-a-Roni

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup Vermicelli
  • 3/4 cup rice
  • 14 1/2 oz. Soup stock
  • 1/2 tsp. Salt
  • 1/2 tsp. White pepper
  • 1/2 tsp. Italian herbs
  • 2 tbl. Butter

Break up vermicelli noodles into 1 inch pieces or smaller. Saute the rice and vermicelli in the butter lightly, then add the soup stock and spices. Cover and cook on low until water is absorbed and rice is tender.

Dunning–Kruger Effect

The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which relatively unskilled persons suffer illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher than it really is. Dunning and Kruger attributed this bias to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their own ineptitude and evaluate their own ability accurately. Their research also suggests corollaries: highly skilled individuals may underestimate their relative competence and may erroneously assume that tasks which are easy for them are also easy for others.

The bias was first experimentally observed by David Dunning and Justin Kruger of Cornell University in 1999. They postulated that the effect is the result of internal illusion in the unskilled, and external misperception in the skilled: “The miscalibration of the incompetent stems from an error about the self, whereas the miscalibration of the highly competent stems from an error about others.

From Wikipedia