question of the day

go to dance class or should i buy a whole chicken and make miến gà ?

in other word:

dancing – Pros  dancing! it’s always nice! get moving! nice interaction with partner boost self confidence + balance get out of the house!	dancing–cons  need to move again? i just done running! i hungry! i tired! i want a quiet sunday evening at home!
miến gà–Pros  noodle soups, yummmmm noodle soups for the rest of the wk! yummmmm!!!!	miến gà–cons  need to buy a big pot NOW! i starving! i tired!

Edit:
recipe for miến gà (chicken glass noodle soup)

from little sister

Ingredients:
1 chicken (preferably fresh, else let defrosted for a couple of days in fridge)
3 brown onions
1 scallion bunch
1 cilantro bunch
fish sauce
salt
1 bag of dry shitake mushroom
bean thread noodle (it’s very important to get the correct noodle here. packages look alike, but only 1 kind will give you the right stringy taste. all others will disintegrate and destroy the noodle soup!)

Instruction:

1) Fill water in BIG pot to 3/5 full, boil. Put ~ 1tbsp salt in.
2) Wash chicken + Peel 2 brown onions + soak about 10-15 mushrooms in a bucket of water.
3) When water is boiling, put chicken in gently, put 2 full uncut onions in.
4) After broth with chicken is boiling, lower the flame, but still let water boiling.
Scoop all foam floating at the top of water out.
5) Check when chicken is done by poking it with 1 chopstick.
If red (bloody) water flows out, continue to boil.
Try not to over cook the chicken. Breast done in ~1/2 hr.
When chicken is cooked, take it out and cut into pieces for eating later
6) Take soaked mushroom out of bucket, put in pot of boiling broth (should be gently boiling)
7) Marinate broth with fish sauce to *slightly* more salty than normal.

Serving:
Slice 3rd onion into thin slices. Dice scallions and cilantro.
When ready to eat, use a smaller pot, take some broth in pot,
put 1 package of bean threads in, let boiling gently until bean threads
are no longer tough. Pour to large bowl. Add more broth as needed.
Put some warm chicken on top, some diced scallion and cilantro,
1-2 mushrooms, some thinly sliced brown onion.

If it’s not salty enough, put some fish sauce into a small bowl, and put in as needed.
Spicy sauce goes well with this. I prefer fresh chilly peppers.

ENJOY!