Yesterday Jake and I invited a few of his buddies over for dinner. We wanted a last hoorah before they left for the summer (and since we won't be here when they get back).
So I decided to make my "famous" Catalina Chicken - it's super good, trust me. I bought all of the ingredients Wednesday night, and put the chicken and sauce in our crockpot to marinate overnight. The next morning Jake and I were rushing to school, we quickly looked in the crockpot manual to see how long/how hot to cook our delectable dinner. We pushed the required buttons for chicken and let it cook away.
When we got home that afternoon, our apartment smelled like pure delight! I was getting all excited, cause last time we had a dinner party, I made a crockpot roast and it was a huge success! I peered in through the glass top at our dinner - not wanting to open it (I didn't want unnecessary heat transfer) - and I decided to switch the heat setting to low.
Well, about fifteen minutes before our guests arrived I opened the chicken up! It had a funky smell. We put one on a plate to taste it... it was completely burned! How can you burn chicken in a cockpot? It's so easy to use! (I'll admit I started to panic at this point). We hurried and thawed the rest of our frozen chicken to cook on our "Grilleration" (Thanks George Foreman!). The chicken turned out great, unfortunately we didn't have a lot to eat (poor boys are probably still hungry) at least my bundt cake turned out yummy (*confession* I'm eating the cake right now!!)
Lesson Learned: If you're not sure about a recipe and you think you should call your mom to ask her for advice, but instead you just cook anyways... you probably will burn the chicken.
4 comments:
That is a true lesson, one which I have learned many times. Of course, every now and then, I don't call her, and then, naturally, things are ruined...
So sad...
Glad the cake was good though--cake makes EVERYTHING better.
As long as the dessert turns out the rest is all good. :-)
I'll trade you your Catalina chicken recipe for my grilled Italian chicken recipe. :-)
yeah, you are right...I wanted more chicken.
I too have burned chicken in the crockpot. It's easier than it looks to do. The manual is not helpful in my opinion. You just have to figure out how fast your crockpot cooks. Sorry it got burned!
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