Don't you hate it when you are looking through a cookbook while you are just starving, and you find all of these recipes that look sooooo good? Then you make one of them and it is just gross. I just got my new Taste of Home cookbook and I made this slow-cooked orange chicken with sliced sweet potatoes and rice. I spent all day on it- sort of. I peeled a sweet potato, sliced it up, mixed seasonings with flour to coat my chicken, sauteed the chicken, and layered the sweet potatoes and chicken in a crock pot and poured some homemade sauce over the chicken. It took forever to cook. We were all sooo hungry by the time the chicken got to temp- that it ws so not even worth the effort. The only part that I liked was the rice. The sauce that went over the chicken had cinnamon and onion powder and some other seasonings in it. I guess I would never recommend using a recipe that has chicken and cinnamon together. It made a really weord texture and everything. I ate it because I was hungry- but now I feel that un-satisified feeling because it didnt taste good. I guess now I am going to go and eat something else and gain a pound or 3 in the process. Yuck- the taste will never leave me. I hope the Beef Barley soup I am making tomorrow turns out better. Excuse me while I go brush my mouth out about 20 times and chew a pack of gum to get the flavor out of my mouth. Grody....grody....grody.
It makes me never want to try a new recipe again. I decided that even if I see one that looks good, I am going to change it up and make it my way so that we like it. (not saying I'm a good cook-we just know our own taste and this was far from it!)
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