Resolution Recipe... for Failure!

[madbaker]

I really should know better than to try cooking something new and slightly involved on a crappy day.

Moderate rain snarled the afternoon traffic, more than doubling my commute home.

I started the recipe - chicken marinated in soy and ginger, cooked with caramelized onions and lettuce in a clay pot - by turning on the oven. It took a longer time to preheat than normal, which was a bit odd but I didn't think anything of it. When I had assembled the dish and was preparing to cook it, I opened the oven - to see the bowl of bread dough, now thoroughly ruined. I had forgotten all about it since this AM. Pity; the moist air would have helped make good bread.

Notwithstanding, I baked the chicken for the requisite time. It was done at 7:30 PM, which given my 0:dark-thirty rising time is later than I like to eat. But still. The dish looks pretty as I serve it, at least.

Then I cut into the chicken.
Still bloody.
I'll probably never try this one again. It looked good, but...

Fuck it. It's just a bad day all 'round. I'm off to take a bath and then to bed.

Comments

[albionwood.livejournal.com]

Look on the bright side - you got three bad things over with in one day, instead of spreading them over the whole week. Two more, and you're done for a bit. (Keegan's Law: Bad things happen in fives, Good Things come in threes.) So with any luck, your shower was interrupted by ice water and the neighbor's rutting kept you awake half the night, thereby getting all 5 Bad Things over with in one gloriously awful day.