Friday, January 27, 2012

Someone's in the kitchen

There is this recipe I found on Pinterest that I have been wanting to try, so two days ago I decided to cook it.  Well it turned out I did not have enough chicken, so last minute I decided to make chicken fried rice.  For me to last minute decide and whip something up is a shock.  There is no other word for it.  So yesterday I went to the store and got some chicken.  Knowing I wanted to make this dish, crispy cheddar chicken, I went to 2 different stores earlier in the week to get all my ingredients.  The hardest for me to find was cheddar cheese.  Last resort I would have pulled out the gouda again or maybe edam.  But alas I did find the cheddar.  Here is the link to the recipe,
http://jamiecooksitup.blogspot.com/2011/10/crispy-cheddar-chicken.html

I started cooking at 4:30 while Owen was asleep.  It does not take long to prep this meal, so I was done in no time.  I didn't follow the measurements exactly since I am only cooking for two and knew I did not need a lot of chicken.  David is not big on left overs so less is better here.  I did have a hard time making the cheese and ritz cracker stick with just milk.  I am not sure of a better method here.  The only substitution I made was for the sauce.  I can't find cream of chicken soup here, nor cream of celery this week, so instead I used cream of mushroom.  David made no comment on this, so far so good.

I also decided to make a potato recipe that I found on Pinterest.  Cheese and Bacon potato rounds.
http://allrecipes.com/Cook/11770279/Photo.aspx?photoID=592510

This turned out quite successful too.  Maybe a little crispy.  Of course for this I had a little problem with the bacon.  I bought bacon and then had to second guess myself but it was super thin.  It worked all the same but it is not the bacon I care for.  Oh Petit Jean meat how I do miss you.  Even Oscar Meyer.

A can of green beans and we had a complete meal.

Owen even helped in the end with cleaning up :)  All in all a successful meal.  Who is this?  Abby doesn't cook!  And soon I might even remember to take pictures so you can see the end result.  

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