Gratuitous food-talk.

[kellan_the_tabby]

Made dinner tonight. Yeah, I know that's not a big thing for most people but for me it's damned unusual.

Discovered that if I leave the chicken mostly frozen, I can cut it up without getting all grossed out. And once it's _cut_ I can cook it. I don't think I could do the sort of thing where you cut it into flat bits, pound them flatter, and dredge them in flour, though...at least not yet.

Cut up the chicken, put it in the pan. Started one of the Near East rice mixes - garlic and something, which also had orzo in it for some reason. Yeah, cheating, but they're easy and they haven't got much in the way of narsty preservatives in 'em.

About then Lewis got home and decided on honey mustard sauce for the chicken. Easy enough, I've got a recipe - dijon mustard, honey, and mayonnaise. No, really. And a bit of tarragon. The recipe suggests mixing them all in a bowl but they clearly haven't ever tried to mix honey with anything so I just wait 'til the chicken's almost done and stick 'em all in the pan, instead. Seems to keep the chicken moist, too, especially when it's done way before the rice. :P

Even managed to get the dishes mostly done while things cooked. Hey, I almost think I'm getting _good_ at this...

Scary pizza.

Comments

[wanderingpixie.livejournal.com]

Sounds fabulous! (Well, okay, not a huge honey-mustard fan, but if I were...) And I'm glad you guys found the Near East stuff out there ^_^

[kellan_the_tabby]

It's really made cooking a bunch easier, and I like every variety I've tried so far. Thanks much for pointing them out to us. :)

[demonlurking]

yeah, i grew up on them. that was about as pre-packaged as my mother got with food. they're a bit pricey, but they're very good.

[cellio]

If you nuke honey for a few seconds it liquifies enough that you can mix it with things.

[kellan_the_tabby]

Oh, excellent, thank you. :)

Problem with the sort of ad-hoc cookery I've been teaching myself is I miss all kinds of useful bits like that...

[cellio]

I learned this one by trial and error. I had this jar of really-thoroughly-carmelized honey and I needed some, so I figured I had nothing to lose by trying. :-)