This makes me kind of odd but I'm just going to say it: I don't like trying new recipes.
Like, at all.
What
I DO like is cooking from old tried-and-true recipes that I've already
tweaked and perfected, where I know just what I need to prep, how to
prep it, how long it will all take beginning to end, and exactly what
I'll be getting in the end. I'm not one of those people who likes
surprises, I guess. And I am DEFINITELY not someone who likes every new
recipe I try. Pretty much the only reason I even bother trying new
recipes is in the hopes of stumbling upon something worth tweaking into a
tried-and-true.
But, most new recipes just become a
one-off "yeah that was fine but not worth making again, really" which is
SUPER DISAPPOINTING to me. Boooo. The vast majority (all?) of the recipes
I'll be posting here are tried-and-true for me. But in an effort to
provide fair and balanced reporting and not pretend I don't have massive
kitchen FAILS on occasion, let's talk about yesterday when I exploded a
chicken, shall we?
The recipe was beer-can chicken, cooked
in a pressure cooker. I LOVE my pressure cooker (almost as much as I
love my slow cooker) and I am always looking for new ways to use it.
Whole chickens are strictly weekend meals for us because of how much
time they take to cook, so whole chicken pressure cooked in 30 minutes (steamed from
the inside with beer, no less!) sounded awesome.
I'm not even going to link to the recipe I used, because well...here's how it looked in the end:
I don't know if the picture fully captures how ugly this meal was. The chicken exploded (fell apart?) while pressure cooking. Awesome. What you
can't see is that all the herbs I'd rubbed on it fell to the bottom and
burnt. So it was an exploded chicken that was steamed in burn-y
flavor. YUM, RIGHT? We still ate it because I pretty much don't throw
away food, particularly food that used to be alive. SORRY CHICKEN YOU
DESERVED BETTER.
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