What NOT To Do In The Kitchen.

When you are cooking, especially when you are following an unfamiliar recipe because you are making something for the first time, it's important to still use your own brain power and think about possibilities instead of simply following directions verbatim. Had I followed my own advice, I would not have been cleaning up an entire roaster plan in the form of glass shards from my kitchen counters and floors.

Today I decided to make a whole oven roaster chicken for the first time ever. I knew what I wanted to do. I wanted to lift the skin up and place herbed butter under the skin so that while it cooks it gets crispy but the chicken stays moist and delicious. The recipe called for heating up the pan in the oven while you prepare the chicken, then placing the chicken in the pan. I recommend not using a glass pan for this process. Cold chicken, when placed in a hot glass pan, creates shattered glass. DUH. Had I been thinking instead of following a recipe I would have realized this. Instead, as I stated before, I ended up with my kitchen full of glass shards, had to throw away the entire chicken plus my rosemary seasoning and a tub of butter, and I had to clean up for about an hour and a half. Not the way I wanted to spend my Friday night. Don't make the same mistake as me.

 

What a damn shame :(

Thanks to my wonderful boyfriend who picked up two mini-chickens on his way home from work, we are still able to have dinner tonight.