food for thought................

I had some chicken I needed to fix today. I started looking to find a different recipe for chicken. You know there seems to be just so many ways you can disguise yard bird. I go to my weight watchers book and find Tandoori-Dijon chicken. Part of the recipe says “refrigerate, turning bag occasionally, at least 2 hours or overnight”. This gets me to thinking that cooking ain’t such an exact science after all. I mean if you can let it sit for any amount of time between 2 hours and 24 hours how exact can it be? Maybe I can make up my own recipe? hmmmmm….. I get the chicken breast and put it in a 2 quart plastic zip lock bag. I begin listening to cooking muse voices in my head…..(or maybe its pink floyd....hard to tell) …adding ingredients and using the weight watcher recipe just for base line data. I start adding plain yogurt, balsamic vinegar, yellow mustard which includes that watery clear liquid that comes out of the mustard bottle because it has been in the ice box for a few weeks and settled and please note I usually squirt that clear jizzum down the disposal instead of putting it on a hot dog bun, low-fat Italian dressing, some ground cumin probably older than my first born, cayenne, black and white pepper (all three just because I have some of each and never use them), some cinnamon that was one of the original items in the recipe because I didn’t want to wander too far off the beaten path, a stick of horse radish root that I bought at a flea market in downtown St. Petersburg and have carried to Colorado and seems to serve no purpose on my spice shelf…..I am guessing I should have grated the root but threw caution to the wind and tossed it in the bag whole…..which reminded me that I didn’t know you could buy a horse radish root when I saw it originally, some Badia seasoning, curry powder, salt, garlic , some habanera sauce, and just a couple of drops of liquid smoke.

I am going to flip this bag over ever few hours as it sits in the ice box overnight. Tomorrow night I plan on slipping it in the oven at 350 for about 30-35 minutes.

I will report on the out come of this tasty concoction from home or the hospital emergency room .