Recipe: Chicken Teriyaki

This angle makes me artistic.

More eye and stomach candy.

The "LOL presentation" bowl of left over chicken that couldn't fit so beautifully on the plate.

Naw, I don't really have a recipe for you, or at least the one I made today anyways. I didn't measure anything at all, and coming from a person who still doesn't know how much a pound is in relation to something or how approximately a meter is, you should be afraid.

But since the title promised a recipe for you in the title, even though I discreetly said I wouldn't, I'll summarize what I did. Basically, I deboned eight chicken thighs into filets after finding out cutting through bones to make chunks (I called them "nublets" in my head... don't ask why) or cutting them into chunks in general even with the bone removed was too difficult. I then marinated it in equal parts soy sauce, mirin, brown sugar, and about four parts water. I even threw in a smashed tangerine slice to add that acidic kick I don't think really did anything in the end. After that, I put on the blue apron I made in home ec 8, pan fried everything, and when it was nearly cooked, poured in teriyaki sauce (equal parts mirin, soy sauce, brown sugar, half a part ginger juice) in a pan and let that reduce for about a minute. Oh, I flipped the chicken, too, halfway, and threw some green onions on top while it was reducing. I guess that's kind of important too.
And if you don't trust me, you can always trust the internets because I trust them more than I do myself too.

And why am I so excited over this so much? Because it turned out good when the last time I cooked any meat lead to something so horribly undercooked that I called my friends telling them I might die the following day. Over dramatic? Well, you didn't see my meat.

Now it's on rice. The difference.

 My sister gave me an "I approve" so I guess that's good, right? After all the chicken had been eaten, my dad took the sauce-laden dishes so he could salvage the rest as a topping for rice. He even told me I should make more dishes. Booyah. Slowly, but surely, I will one day get rid of this "I cooked something - BEWARE" title I have hovering over me.