So, in my post yesterday, I mentioned that I was cooking up a new recipe that kinda reminded me of fall. It had chicken, sweet potatoes, applesauce, and a crock pot, which sounded like the makings of an interesting-yet-great dinner.
Wrong.
I also mentioned that I had to alter the recipe a little because I didn't have all of the ingredients it called for. The recipe called for red onions, garlic, apple cider vinegar, curry or cumin, and ground ginger to mix with the unsweetened applesauce, and then layer it onto the chicken and the cut-and-peeled sweet potatoes.
I forgot to get the onions and I didn't have ginger. Oops!
Me, being the lazy person I can be, just bumped the onions off and looked up on the internet what I could use instead of ginger. Nutmeg it is then! I had that in my spice cabinet.
Maybe it would've been better if I had actually followed the recipe and gone to the grocery store to get the correct ingredients. That's a definite possibility, but I'm not sure I'll try again to figure it out.
Chris was sweet enough to eat the bowl full that I fixed him (which, thank goodness, I put on top of rice to help out the not-so-good chicken stuff), but no seconds this time. He did better than me though, I couldn't even finish what I had. I eventually gave up and grabbed a Dreamcicle out of the freezer.
My cooking was no good this time.
I guess I still have a fairly decent record, though. I've cooked quite often since I've moved into the house back in June, and this may only be the second or third time I've cooked something that didn't work out as well as I had hoped. Can't complain about that!
If you're interested in giving it a try for yourself, here's the recipe that I used. I also thought that maybe putting some brown sugar into the mix might help give it more flavor, because that's what it was really missing.
Maybe that's what the red onions were supposed to do. That's probably what they were supposed to do.
Anyways, if you try it, please let me know how it worked for you!
Tonight, Chris suggested we have a leftover night. I'm thinking he may want me to take a few days off to re-group myself after that fiasco, then come back strong with food that actually tastes good again. Whatever his motivation behind it might be, I'm completely okay with it! It's nice to use a microwave every once in a while to fix dinner.
Plus, that gives me extra time to cuddle up with my handsome man on the couch. Sounds like a win-win plan to me!
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