Chicken something
Feb. 21st, 2012 09:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
davidnI have no idea what this is.
At its core, it's chicken with rice - but after putting those together semi-successfully, I decided to improvise a bit. It's surprising that I always forget years of past experience and only ever remember that this is a huge mistake towards the end of my cooking process.
I'd known that it was at least theoretically possible to infuse rice with egg, but all the recipes I could find were full instructions for egg fried rice with soy sauce and everything, so I just made it up as I went along and threw some milk and curry powder into an egg mixture. I think I overdid the volume of egg a bit despite only using one, and it didn't produce the sizzle I'd hoped for on putting it into the pan, more sort of sitting there squelchily - once I'd folded it all in and overcooked it to make sure it wasn't raw it fell on to the plate like some sort of rice omelette.
And the chicken was just picked off a roasted whole one (done much more professionally by Whitney the previous night) and wasn't cooked from raw - I'd tried to warm it up a bit under the grill, but I left it in a little too long as I got distracted with other things and I sort of... toasted it a bit. Dinner last night was the weirdest breakfast ever.
Tonight it's Pancake Day, though - I can do those without any problems.
At its core, it's chicken with rice - but after putting those together semi-successfully, I decided to improvise a bit. It's surprising that I always forget years of past experience and only ever remember that this is a huge mistake towards the end of my cooking process.
I'd known that it was at least theoretically possible to infuse rice with egg, but all the recipes I could find were full instructions for egg fried rice with soy sauce and everything, so I just made it up as I went along and threw some milk and curry powder into an egg mixture. I think I overdid the volume of egg a bit despite only using one, and it didn't produce the sizzle I'd hoped for on putting it into the pan, more sort of sitting there squelchily - once I'd folded it all in and overcooked it to make sure it wasn't raw it fell on to the plate like some sort of rice omelette.
And the chicken was just picked off a roasted whole one (done much more professionally by Whitney the previous night) and wasn't cooked from raw - I'd tried to warm it up a bit under the grill, but I left it in a little too long as I got distracted with other things and I sort of... toasted it a bit. Dinner last night was the weirdest breakfast ever.
Tonight it's Pancake Day, though - I can do those without any problems.
