I don't claim to be a great cook, but I do claim to have a general knowledge of how to cook a simple dish (nothing gormet). Most of the time I have success with cooking, and I suppose I'm fortunate because I do like to try new recipes fairly regularly. But every once in a while things go wrong, and I learn something new about cooking the hard way.
Yesterday I learned that you never put a piece of raw chicken in the oven to bake until it is completely thawed out. I like to buy chicken in bulk at Sam's and save money, so I freeze it to make it last. This means that when I cook with chicken, I take it out of the freezer several hours before I'm ready to cook. I did this yesterday. But it was apparently slightly frozen still in the center. The chicken fingers were apparently not meant to be. It's a shame, too, because it was this really yummy coconut chicken with homemade honey mustard sauce.
Today I learned that all brownie mixes are not created equal. I used to think that you could make any brownie box stretch to fill a 9x13 inch baking dish. Not so. Going for the cheapest box won't work anymore apparently.
Key moments, my friends. I'm thankful that these things happened on days I was not cooking for company.
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