Last night Husband decided to make dinner. Thing is I didn't have anything planned and neither did he.  What to do?  Well, with the Leftover Tuesdays Pantry Raid going on it wasn't a difficult decision to see what the pantry held and make dinner from it.  Husband spent a few minutes going through the dry pantry, the fridge, and the freezer.  We ignored items that were new or staples.  Yet, we found a pretty wide assortment of things - many of which were rather old including:

Dry Pantry

peanuts

rice noodles

Fridge

eggplant

patty pan squash

1/2 onion

1/2 jalapeño

2 green onions

a bit of ginger that had seen better days

~2 lb green beans

Freezer

some chicken breast from a long forgotten meal

It was a pretty large assortment of items with a bunch of vegetables that had accumulated from the garden and various leftovers that didn't make it into previous meals.  But what to make of it?  Husband decided that with all of the vegetables and the rice noodles a stir-fry would be ideal. 

The result?  Husband did a good job making the odd selection of ingredients into something quite tasty.  And he used most things up!  Although we still have a bunch of peanuts I need to use in something soon (ideas welcome!).

Here is the 'recipe' -  but keep in mind that most amounts (and even ingredients) can be changed to work with whatever you have in your pantry...

Husband's Pantry Raid Stir-Fry

Chicken Marinade

• 1 chicken breast
• 2 T soy sauce
• 1 T oyster sauce

Vegetables

• 1 T Ginger, grated
• 2 tomatoes, diced
• 1/2 jalapeño, diced
• 2 green onions, sliced thinly
• 1 lb bok choy
• 1 patty pan squash, sliced
• 1 lb green beans, parboiled
• 1 lb eggplant, diced
• 3 small cloves garlic, diced

Sauce

• 1 T rice wine vinegar
• 1 tsp sesame oil
• 1 T corn starch
• 2 T soy sauce
• 2 T oyster sauce

Slice chicken into bite-sized pieces.  Mix with soy and oyster sauces.  Set aside while preparing vegetables.

Sauté chicken, set aside.  Sauté squash, eggplant and jalapeño until tender.  Add bok choy stir until wilted.  Return chicken to pan, add tomato and sauce.  Cook until sauce is thick.

While vegetables are cooking boil rice noodles. 

Sprinkle some peanuts on top to complete the dish.

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