Monday, 8 August 2011

If a chicken is still wet in the middle, does that mean it's not cooked?

Hunger strikes at 2:50pm after a long morning of feeding the fish, desperately trying to save the garden and plants from both drowning and running out of water simultaneously, walking the dog (or rather him walking me) and another heart breaking session of job hunting. All not helped at all by the Sunday night cocktails last night.
Apron on and I've set my sights on Chicken, Honey and Mustard with salad for lunch, Ruperts got his sights set on a Denti-Chew we're both feeling positive we'll achieve our goals. 
No recipe book for this one so at least I can't fail at the first hurdle although must check I've actually got chicken, mustard and honey.
                                             No MUSTARD!!, going with almonds instead.
Rupes is happy with his Denti-Chew and supervising the whole expedition from the comfort of the dinning room. I however am not so confident and am a little unsure of where to start.



I pre-heat the oven at 180o or 200 I'm not sure which the dial is set to, maybe somewhere in between.
Although I'm a cooking novice I have heard the rumors about chicken and it not being cooked, needless to say I am quite scared I might not make it past day 3 due to food poisoning.
 One chicken breast smothered in honey and almonds into the oven for 18minuets.

I have to say I was feeling quite pleased with myself until i returned to the kitchen to find smoke billowing from the oven and on inspection find all the honey has fallen off my lovely honey chicken and is now a burning pile around the breast. Not the honey glazed goodness I imagined.
However the salad is looking up although to achieve this all I did was chop veg, I have also added honey and mustard salad dressing I found in the fridge, at least the salads on the right track.

My cooking spirits low I've rang Dave to arrange for a BBQ for tea. The chicken is out of the oven and I'm a little worried. If it's still wet in the middle does this mean it isn't cooked? with no one around to ask but a sunbathing poodle I resort to Google.
The juices are running clear and Google says we're good to go.

Success...Kind of!
Soaps x

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