SERIOUS cooking failure

[thistlechaser]

Oh Internet, sometimes you contain bad advice. I saw a LJ cooking post saying that this was totally yummy:

I've been looking for ways to make my boneless, skinless chicken breasts less boring, and while I knew that wouldn't exactly be a healthy way, I thought it might be good for a one-time thing (or two, if it were good enough to eat the leftovers the next night). I baked my chicken breast as usual, then followed the directions on the box, breaking up the chicken and using that instead of hamburger.

Right off the bat, the smell was odd. Very odd. Which is not something I like noticing about my food. It smelled like pickles, which would be reasonable for a burger maybe, but this smell was really strong.

Basically it tasted like it smelled. Maybe the heavier flavor of beef would have masked the intense pickle flavor more, but I suspect not. I ate a few forkfuls and I'm going to toss the rest out.

On the plus side, I bought more ribs to make this weekend. Spare ribs instead of baby back, I'm not sure if that will make a difference or not. Alas, if I had gone shopping tomorrow instead of today, the baby back would have been on sale and I could have gotten those again, but I didn't see the sale until after I had already bought these.

I think my stomach is already unhappy from that horrible pickle-cheese dinner. Blech.

Comments

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Maybe! But this morning in the shower, I realized what part of my problem probably was. The box calls for a pound of browned hamburger meat, I used one small chicken breast. So there was less bulk/seasoning!

But, knowing that, you could make it with a small amount of meat to get the heavier pickle flavor.