Hello!
Oooooooh boy. Am I ever thankful that this week is almost over! I almost had a meltdown today when a project I had been working on for nearly 4 hours MAGICALLY CLOSED ITSELF and I lost everything. Note to self: hit the save button more than once every four hours. Bonk! 
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Seriously though, I looked down when I got to work and I swear the next time I looked up, it was time to go. I was starving, too! Luckily I had a game plan for dinner, which came together in about 30 minutes – Brazilian Coconut Chicken!
Brazilian Coconut Chicken
Based off of this recipe.
Ingredients:
1/2 teaspoon garam masala
1/2 teaspoon cumin
1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/2 teaspoon turmeric
1/2 teaspoon coriander
salt & pepper
2 medium sized chicken breasts
2 tablespoons olive oil, divided
1/2 medium onion, chopped
2 teaspoons fresh ginger, minced
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 can petite diced tomatoes (with 1 heaping spoonful removed and discarded)
1 can light coconut milk
Directions:
1. Heat 1 Tablespoon olive oil in a large skillet over medium high heat. Cut chicken into 2 inch cubes and toss with spices. Sauté in oil until the insides are just barely pink. Remove to a dish and set aside.
2. Heat remaining Tablespoon of olive oil in the skillet on medium low heat, and sauté onions until tender, ~5-6 minutes. Add minced ginger and garlic, and continue to cook for 1 more minute, stirring constantly.
3. Add tomatoes (with one heaping spoonful removed and discarded) and coconut milk. Simmer on medium-high for 10-12 minutes or until thickened. Add chicken back in and simmer for 5 more minutes, or until chicken is cooked through. Serve over rice.
What a great little dinner! Very exotic tasting without a lot of effort and NO hard to find ingredients. Kudos go to garam masala (my favorite spice) and coconut milk for making that happen!
Coconut milk doesn’t taste like a "coconut", per se, it just tastes really smooth and creamy. Ok, well maybe a little coconutty, but not sweet like a coconut daiquiri or anything!
It combines with the fresh ginger, garlic and spices, to reduce and make a velvety smooth sauce that I wouldn’t be upset about pouring on just about anything!
The turmeric that spiced the chicken kind of magically turns the sauce a gorgeous, golden yellow color too. Very curry-esque!
I served my Brazilian Coconut Chicken over a bed of tender brown rice.
Cooked homey style, natch.
Yum!
In other news, alert the presses because not only did I venture outside of my home on a weeknight once this week, but I’m doing it AGAIN. TONIGHT! Ben has had a long week too, so we’re heading out to get a frosty one. A beer, that is. 
Have a great night – TGIAF!!!!
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Tell me about some of your "Office Space" moments from work or school!
I hate how helpless those moments make you feel. Like there’s literally no point in throwing a fit because it won’t bring your precious documents back, but UGH! Know what I mean!?
Oh… sometimes when a document “seems” gone, it really isn’t, EVEN if you haven’t saved it. Call IT next time – maybe they can help. There is a temp folder where documents store with a little ~ as the extention and those can be repaired!
Sorry about that!
Love Office Space!!!
In the past few weeks my company has been slowing moving to our new headquarters in West Des Moines, so my floor is getting pretty empty (and antsy to get moved out the new and healthier facility). This week, we started getting all “Office Space”y and were kicking out cubicle panels and trying to figure out how to drop the walls like in the movie.
Oh and your dinner looks YUMMY. Going to have to try that very soon.
We run on a really, really old system of Office at work (finally migrating to 2007 sometime this fall) and my co-worker and I are running giant Excel spreadsheets which have “too many formats” for the old version to handle – so sometimes Excel just shuts down/randomly deletes workbook tabs/text! Bahhh!!!!
I work as a mapping technician drawing in subdivisions for the property appraisal districts and such, and one day (before we got back up batteries) it was storming outside and a certain tricky subdivision I had been on for almost 5 hours was lost in a split second when my computer died. I think all the color drained from my face when I realized what happened and I came THIS close to tugging at my hair and kicking something. Not a good day! Ever since I hit the save button at least 5 times every half hour just in case! Eek!
My husband loves curry. . . I think I’ll be trying this recipe soon!
I know how that feels! Hours of work wasted, never a good feeling.
I now make sure all my Microsoft programs auto save every 1 minute. 
Love the homey-style cooking tip
So cute too!
When I was working on my thesis, I had to go through the IRB process (ethics, etc. – BIG DEAL). I accidentally deleted some files from my USB drive – completely by mistake (typed in a short cut to delete that I didn’t even know about) and had to start the IRB process completely from scratch. I was using my office computer, and even the university tech people could not recover the files. It was so frustrating!!! Luckily I recovered a few of the files through my ‘sent’ box in my email. I started saving everything that had to do with my thesis in 3 places. And, I still have all of those files in all 3 places. I guess I was paranoid!
This is my first time ever commenting (but I LOVE reading IGE every single day!!), but I had to join in on the office fun because the EXACT thing happened to me today too!!! I came on Google Reader right after it happened to de-stress for a second and it was like reading my life on the computer screen (except for the dinner part… holy yum though!) At least now you know you have a buddy to wallow in computer misery along with you
HA! I think my favorite part of the entire movie is the scene when the dude is driving and bumpin’ his hard knock life beats and keeps getting stuck in the slow moving traffic lane! haaa. too much to handle!
Guess what!? ONE more alarm clock! hopefully work is better for you tomorrow!
oh no! I’m so sorry that your project closed itself :\ booo. i hate when computers malfunction.
on the bright side – your thai dinner sounds fabulous!! love anything with a coconut flavor!
Oh man thats terrible! I feel your pain – I’m an editor, and one time after I had finished editing pages and pages of documents, I went to email them to my boss, only to discover that I have saved them in a temp file. There must be a way to uncover documents saved in a temp file…but I couldn’t figure it out and the assignment was due that day. I ended up staying until 10 p.m.
I hate when things like that happen! I feel like every day is Office Space.
ARGH! I have had that happen to me before and I swear there is nothing worse
So frustrating + heartbreaking at the same time 
But my oh my – what a wonderfully tasty looking dinner!!!!
Oh, Kristin, I am so sorry! Sometimes technology is the WORST, isn’t it??? Glad you’re getting a beer to ease the pain!
I loveeeeeeeeee flavorful ethnic dishes! Sorry about your work project
Oh no! That sounds terrible…any chance it can be saved?
Ugh, I’ve heard of so many horror stories like yours where my peers papers were deleted after their computer crashed, etc. Thankfully that hasn’t happened to me…yet :-O
That dinner looks absolutely delicious! Bookmarking! I’m trying to decide if I want to make it with tofu or chicken – garam masala is my jam by the way! Love.
My husband worked for a Best Buy corporate years ago and their dept every week had to do the company cheer! Give me a B. Give me…(you get the idea) He refused.
Same company also did a team building event and they were blind folded and had to act out animals sounds and find out their partners.
I could go ON and ON and ON!
We had a printer at my last job that I always said I wanted to take a baseball bat to just like they did with that fax machine! Also me and the one other guy I worked with both loved Office Space and when we’d get mad we’d always say “I’ll light the building on fire” just like Milton always said. I LOVE that movie. Another good movie if you’ve never seen it is Super Troopers. Oh man I love that movie!
The dinner looks almost as hot as you. Foxy!
Oooh, I feel your pain! I was a marketing intern for a summer at a festival, and we comped the volunteer actors tickets and food for doing appearances at parades, fairs, etc. Anyway, I was trying to alphabetize the spreadsheet and instead only did the names and not their comps, and their system was so old we couldn’t “undo” it!!!!! After I had a major meltdown, I called one of the volunteers in charge of the rest of them, who luckily was a tech-phobe, so she was super nice and they were pretty understanding. Whew!!!!!
My department got stuck with this printer that didn’t work properly for 2 years (almost no one else believed me, but I could remember almost exactly when it 1st crashed only because it happened about a month after I’d come back to work from maternity leave!)…And every time something else would break, a bunch of us threatened to reenact that very scene from “Office Space” in your picture!
In fact, when we finally got a replacement a month ago, I begged to be allowed to give the old machine a kick before the hauled it off. 
It felt good.
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So sorry about losing your work! I am working on this very large, complex project, and the other day, I realized I forgot to include a necessary part of each file, so I had to go back, do them all over, and re-save! I wanted to cry. I feel your pain! I hope the beer helped!
Argh!!!! I feel like I’ve been living in Office Space all week. Ridiculous traffic, aggravating co-workers and downright rude clients. I’m not here to listen to you rant about all your life’s frustrations. I have real work to do! Not to mention that I can’t access one of our biggest marketing websites so I’m falling behind on that work.
Mmm I am totally down with anything containing coconut milk:)
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Damn it feels good to be a gangster.
Did you hear that the “no talent @ss clown” Michael Bolton is coming to Des Moines? HAHAHAHAH.
All of the GREAT one-liners are running through my head right now, I’m definitely putting “Office Space” on my to-do list this weekend!
That stinks that you lost all of your work. I hate it when that happens!
I do love me some Office Space though. I think that is one of my favorite parts of the movie and when I hear that song I totally think of it!
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Oh man I just tried this- AMAZING