Today I spent about an hour looking through cookbooks to come up with a recipe to utilize the few items we actually have in the house to make a dinner. To no avail, I finally decided I would just toss some spices together and marinate some chicken and do the same with some potatoes and add a salad. Easy enough. After reading dozens of recipes, a few spices came to stand out- garlic, rosemary, basil and thyme. So I figured, if they are all good, might as well put them all together. And so I did with some salt and pepper. It smelled delicous and I thought, "yep, this is gonna be a good one to tell the girls about." I fried up the potatoes in some butter on the stove and cooked the chicken in the oven. Then John said, "I think you overseasoned something, my nose hurts." Hmm, well no turning back now. I sneaked a taste of the potatoes and they seemed like they were a winner. Then the chicken was done and after a taste my first comment was, "the chicken is kinda funky". With a lot of ketchup it was bearable, but definately not a winner. The potatoes turned out very well, but after a closer sniff of the chicken I discovered the major culprit was thyme. I just told John what I was writing about and he said, "Why did you use thyme? You only use thyme when you are breading stuff or if it's only necessary." Well, thanks for that info after the fact. And when is necessary? Oh well. Hope this provided a little chuckle for your day. So consider this a warning when experimenting with spices- maybe a little research or following a recipe isn't such a bad idea.
Love,
Andrea
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