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RECIPE Page 8 n THE ASIAN REPORTER October 1, 2018 Why we can’t fix nothing Continued from page 6 SAVORY STIR-FRY. A serving of Stir-Fried Chicken and Broccoli with Herbs and Scallion Rice is seen in Brookline, Massachusetts. The recipe appears in the cookbook Dinner Illustrated. (Steve Klise/America’s Test Kitchen via AP) A stir-fry with easy-prep ingredients done in an hour By America’s Test Kitchen Q uick-cooking stir-fries are a natural choice for weeknight dinners. This one combines easy-prep ingredients with a levelled-up sauce made from Asian pantry staples. To save on time, use precut broccoli florets rather than fussing with a whole head of broccoli. For a crisp-tender texture and bright green color, we steam the broccoli slightly in the skillet before sautéing it. You will need a 12” nonstick skillet with a tight-fitting lid for this recipe. Note that you’ll need 1/2 cup of basil, so shop accordingly. Long-grain white, bas- mati, or Texmati rice can be substituted for the jasmine rice. America’s Test Kitchen provided this article to The Associated Press. More recipes, cooking tips, and ingredient and product reviews are available at <www.americastestkitchen.com>. Stir-Fried Chicken and Broccoli with Herbs and Scallion Rice Servings: 4 Start to finish: 45 minutes 1 1/2 cups jasmine rice Salt and pepper 1/4 cup oyster sauce 1 tablespoon rice vinegar 1 tablespoon Asian chili-garlic sauce 1 tablespoon fresh ginger 1/2 cup fresh basil 1/4 cup fresh mint 4 scallions 12 ounces broccoli florets 1 red bell pepper 1 pound boneless, skinless chicken breasts 2 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon vegetable oil Rinse rice in fine-mesh strainer until water runs clear. Bring rice, 2 1/4 cups water, and 1/4 teaspoon salt to simmer in large saucepan over medium-high heat. Reduce heat to low, cover, and simmer until rice is tender and liquid is absorbed, 16 to 18 minutes. Remove pot from heat, lay clean folded dish towel underneath lid, and allow to sit for 10 minutes. While the rice cooks, whisk two tablespoons water, oyster sauce, vinegar, and chili-garlic sauce together in a small bowl; set aside. Peel and grate one tablespoon ginger. Chop 1/2 cup basil and 1/4 cup mint. Slice scallions thin. Cut broccoli florets into one-inch pieces. Stem and seed bell pepper, then slice thin. Trim chicken, slice each breast in half lengthwise, then slice crosswise 1/4 inch thick. Heat one tablespoon oil in a 12” nonstick skillet over medium-high heat until shimmering. Cook chicken until no longer pink, one to two minutes per side. Transfer to plate. Add one tablespoon oil to now-empty skillet and increase heat to high. Add broccoli and cook for 30 seconds. Add 1/3 cup water, cover, and reduce heat to medium. Steam broccoli until just tender, about two minutes. Uncover broccoli, stir in bell pepper, and cook until vegetables are tender and most of the liquid has evaporated, about three minutes. Push vegetables to the sides of the skillet. Add remaining one teaspoon of oil and ginger to center and cook, mashing ginger into pan, until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Return cooked chicken, with any accumulated juices, to skillet and toss to combine. Stir in oyster sauce mixture and simmer until slightly thickened, about one minute. Off heat, stir in basil and mint. Fluff rice with fork and stir in scallions. Serve stir-fry over rice. Nutrition information per serving: 503 calories (92 calories from fat); 10 g fat (1 g saturated, 0 g trans fats); 83 mg cholesterol; 940 mg sodium; 67 g carbohydrate; 4 g fiber; 4 g sugar; 34 g protein. Rare Sumatran tiger caught in animal trap dies Continued from page 5 kidney. “We will cooperate with law enforcement agencies for an investigation and to launch an operation against wild hunters and traps,” Suharyono said. He said a villager who admitted to setting traps for pigs was detained for interrogation. Sumatran tigers, the most critically endangered tiger subspecies, are under increasing pressure as their jungle habitat shrinks. Two people have died in tiger attacks on Sumatra this year and villagers slaughtered a tiger they reportedly believed was a supernatural creature. Eastern and Southeast Asian frontier provinces. Year after ferocious year. I love it — both the drug and my bright superhero tights and cape. My third secret power: In our Indo community, folks called our pop and our mom’s older brother “hakim,” which translates to justice. Unlike western systems that adjudicate who and what is right or wrong, hakim reconcile our differences. We expect hakim to enhance societal harmony, not blame or bless us. The thing is, our neighborhood still has to stick together after your divorce, after our business women brawl, after your and my stupid sons’ knife fight. Downside of brown superheroes The consequences of ethnic-stream elders like me addicted to our acutely adaptive, uber-achiever, peacemaker duties, were likely not foreseeable in the Reagan Eighties, back when our immi- grant communities substantially self- administered the integration of anxious diasporas, one after another from South- east Asian nations suddenly abandoned by the United States, from ethnic states under the dissolving Soviet Union, from genocides in East then Central Africa. Though okay, the consequences of our old-school ways are obvious today. Our traditional elders and savvy young civic activists stepped double-time into what quickly developed into an awfully asymmetrical relationship with our mainstream dance partners. We agreed to a division of labor and love that relieved Anglo America of its responsibility to make room, to make ideal, to make peace. Policy leaders held on to their intermittent appearances to make nice. Here’s a quick dip into how it works, and how it doesn’t, in Portland’s metro area: We are blessed by about 100 newcomer elder aunties and community uncles — analogize their work, if you must, with that of our elected officials and public administrators. Each of these is supported by their robust volunteer ethnic army. Across ethnic streams and into our robust mainstream, these crews integrate our families and businesses, our faith and civic associations, into the life of our splendid cities. They daily do the public’s business, as is expected of us. Lots of sorrowing, lots of celebrating. Decade in, decade out. Pero they’re doing our public business for nonprofit agency compensation of about half the bucks plus benefits I’ve been earning since working at City Hall. After five and on weekends these superheroes keep right on doing it. For free. About 12 of these community anchors have been dutifully at it for 45 years, another 12 for 20, easing-in successive flows and ebbs of energetic families, businesses, civic and faith associations from all over our achy earth. For this they earn enormous respect and affection. Social and spiritual wealth swell Oregon’s Native-American, African- American, and newcomer communities. In 2018 the Big Question is: Why would Anglo-America’s mainstream do anything materially different to better our ethnic streams’ share of this blessed continent, given our stubborn elders already working really hard at contorting our ambitious familias, at cultivating compassion, at making settled and new Portlanders alike, feel okay about this lopsided arrange- ment? Name an incentive. Time to retool Herein lies the “port” part of Portland’s paradox. Today, we’re at about 20 percent foreign born (25 percent for Beaverton). Nearly half of our packed classrooms are ethnic minority kids. No City Club study is necessary to project the cost to all Portlanders in misery and treasury if we don’t better share both the benefits and the burdens of this blessed place. It’s not only a progressive Pacific Northwest problem. A few years ago, our daughter Caricia was doing public-health research in post-Katrina New Orleans. Over a Cajun shrimp Po’Boy, she thought aloud about how little care that old city’s wet, cold, and now houseless ethnic minority community expect from their government. Because, as their elders explained, “it’s aaalways been like that” in their personal and communal memories. A long-long time. Now, if this essay was about Kiev, Karbala, Kandahar, or any other failing city fled by 120,000 or so of us Portlanders — or if this were still 1980-1990s River City, when our really robust refugee neighborhoods never expected inclusion from national or local leadership — then doing what our community elders daily do might make sense. Back there, we knew nothing about good governance; back then downtown leaders never said they cared about us. It’s that bad old Jakarta sultan-thing our ancestors and elders told me about, it’s that New Orleans bad-bargain our bright daughters and beautiful sons try and try to tell us about. It is at last, the good reasoning that’s trucking all my knucklehead tools to Ted’s Shed early next Saturday. Stacked in back of Alberto’s beautiful ’67 pickup. Aduh’illaah! (OMG!) Come Monday morning, I’m clocking in ready to share with settled and new Portlanders alike, all our responsibilities for making us room, for making us great, for making us peace. Insh’allaah. First private moon flight passenger to invite creative guests Continued from page 16 they would pay. That original mission would have used a Falcon Heavy rocket — the most powerful rocket flying today — and a Dragon crew capsule similar to the one NASA astronauts will use to fly to the International Space Station as early as next year. The era of space tourism began in 2001, when California businessman Dennis Tito paid for a journey on a Russian rocket to the International Space Station. The trip was organized by the Virginia-based company Space Adventures, which has since sent several more paying customers on spaceflights. SpaceX already has a long list of firsts, with its sights ultimately set on Mars. It became the first private company to launch a spacecraft into orbit and safely return it to Earth in 2010, and the first commercial enterprise to fly to the space station in 2012 on a supply mission. Musk’s successes have recently been overshadowed by his behavior and the struggles of his Tesla electric car company to deliver. He recently criticized analysts during a Tesla earnings conference call, labelled a British diver in the recent Thai cave rescue drama as a pedophile, took a hit off an apparent marijuana-tobacco joint during a podcast interview, and tweeted that he had funding to take Tesla private but then announced the deal was off. Two high-level executives announced departures from Tesla, and the diver sued Musk. He told The New York Times he was overwhelmed by job stress. The British diver, Vernon Unsworth, sued Musk for defamation and is seeking more than $75,000. Musk and SpaceX engineers built a small submarine and shipped it to Thailand to help with the rescue. The device wasn’t used and in the interview, Unsworth called it a “PR stunt” and said it wouldn’t have worked to free the boys who were trapped in the flooded cave.
