Or marinades and pumice stones

[cjsmith]

1. White wine / garlic / onion / tarragon marinade does not smell as good as it sounds. (It also doesn't look good on a T-shirt. YES it splattered when I dumped the chicken in, of COURSE it splattered, even though I was trying to prevent that very thing.)

What the heck do you do with chicken once you've done that to it, anyway? Pop it in the oven and paint it with butter every nanosecond or two? Can I avoid the basting if I wrap the whole mess in a big ol piece of tinfoil? What would "the whole mess" be, anyway: chicken and some of the marinade goo and a bit of butter? Gah, you can see why I don't cook. This isn't from a recipe to begin with, because I didn't have shallots, and now I'm trying to optimize the rest before I even know whether what I've done so far is worthless.

All of this *started* because I had some peach habanero glop that wanted some chicken. Of course, if this chicken comes out well it won't want the peach habanero glop and I'll be back where I started.

2. I have discovered that it is definitely possible to overuse a pumice stone. My right elbow wasn't nearly as messed up as my left one. I scrubbed at it. Now it is.

Comments

[dizzdvl.livejournal.com]

You could just add a bit of water in pan, add the chicken and then pop it in the oven. Or if you are truly lazy like me, you could just put it in a pan on a burner. Or or for supreme laziness (my favorite way of course) you can put it on the old George Forman grill.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I've been musing about getting a George. Its ability to enable laziness suits my character. :-)

[dizzdvl.livejournal.com]

And you can grill just about anything on it as long as you don't mind grill marks. I have even made grilled sammiches on it.

[oddhack.livejournal.com]

Stir fry it, maybe.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Mm, that's a thought. This time it went in the oven covered in the marinade and a bit of butter. I think I have four servings. I hope it's good.

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

peach habanero glop is really good when blended with some cream cheese and spread on bread.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Mmmm. Good - 'cause I've got a whole lot of it left, even after trying a little on that chicken last night. 8-)