RECIPE
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Why we can’t fix nothing
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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
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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
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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.