Honey, I drowned the chicken
Photo from Women's health & fitness vol. 12 no.6.
It involved a lot of ingredients. One of which was chicken stock. What's the fucking difference between a chicken stock and chicken broth anyway!? I couldn't find chicken stock, so I just got the other one. Another ingredient was a bulb of garlic which I was supposed to chop them up into tiny pieces.
What would a guy do if he's too lazy to chop garlic?
Yep, you got that right. He'd go back out and get a bottle of Lee Kum Kee freshly minced garlic. Here's the masterpiece:
It was a bit watery. The recipe said to add cornflour, I poured some cornflour into a cup with half a cup of hot water. I then poured god knows how much chicken broth into the pan together with the cornflour-mixed-water. That was where all the water came from. Now I realised that I was supposed to add 1 tsp of cornflour to the 1/4 cup of chicken broth! Would the cornflour actually dissolve in the chicken broth? I guess I'll need to heat up the chicken broth first. Geez ~ HASSLE! Oh people don't die from eatting too much cornflour right? Hopefully not; I added more cornflour to make it less watery.
Well, it tasted okay but I think that's only because I put tons of hoisin sauce in it. I give this a 2/10.
posted by John Ng at 6:54 PM
3 Comments:
cornflour is fine in cold water.
it will dissolve and look milky.
they say we learn more from our failures than our successes, right? (I wouldn't know, I've NEVER failed at anything - as if!)
noting that the recipe comes from 'women's fitness' (if it were anyone else but you, that in itself might seem strange :)), those sorts of meals are number one designed for nutritional value, and probably style and presentation (even taste?) come a very distant second.
go and buy the latest 'delicious' (abc) mag and try something simple from their 'tuesday night cooking' section - all their recipes are seasonal and strike a good balance between style, taste and nutritional make-up..
um, hope you like this 'essay'!!
Dmnk: Thanks for the info.
Daz: The lastest 'Delicious' mag... sounds like a good gift for someone learning to cook, doesn't it? *hint
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