Cooking Time with mj_notes
schneenet is a big fan of posting her recipe successes. I'm a bit...less...successful. Here's a recipe, cooked mj_notes style.
Last night, I tried to make a Chicken-and-Dumpling soup from a simple recipe. The idea was this:
- heat 2 cans of cream of chicken soup with 2 2/3 cups of milk until it boils, then let simmer.
- mix 1 2/3 cups of biscuit mix with 2/3 cups of milk to make dumpling mix.
- drop dumpling mix in heaping spoonfuls into soup
- cook for 10 minutes
- cover and let sit for 10 minutes
- eat
Simple, right? I decided to cook some chicken to add to it too. So, here's what actually happened:
- pre-heat oven, then put chicken in oven
- heat 2 cans of cream of chicken soup with 2 2/3 cups of milk
- turn my back on the soup to make dumplings
- hear sizzling sound, turn around to see a volcano of boiling soup
- move remaining soup to new burner, put new burner on low
- put dumplings into remaining soup
- attempt to clean spilled soup off of old burner
- decide to turn old burner off first
- notice that soup is on front burner, but I turned on the rear burner. Soup is cooling instead of cooking.
- turn on front burner
- get chicken out of oven and dice.
- get halfway through chicken to see it is raw inside.
- grumble and throw out chicken.
- catch soup as it's starting to boil over yet again
- put pot of soup in sink, scoop soup into bowl and attempt to eat.
- notice two hours later that rear burner (that I did not need) is still on! Turn off rear burner.
For everything that went wrong, it didn't turn out half bad. I just know this is a recipe I have to monitor from now on!
Last night, I tried to make a Chicken-and-Dumpling soup from a simple recipe. The idea was this:
- heat 2 cans of cream of chicken soup with 2 2/3 cups of milk until it boils, then let simmer.
- mix 1 2/3 cups of biscuit mix with 2/3 cups of milk to make dumpling mix.
- drop dumpling mix in heaping spoonfuls into soup
- cook for 10 minutes
- cover and let sit for 10 minutes
- eat
Simple, right? I decided to cook some chicken to add to it too. So, here's what actually happened:
- pre-heat oven, then put chicken in oven
- heat 2 cans of cream of chicken soup with 2 2/3 cups of milk
- turn my back on the soup to make dumplings
- hear sizzling sound, turn around to see a volcano of boiling soup
- move remaining soup to new burner, put new burner on low
- put dumplings into remaining soup
- attempt to clean spilled soup off of old burner
- decide to turn old burner off first
- notice that soup is on front burner, but I turned on the rear burner. Soup is cooling instead of cooking.
- turn on front burner
- get chicken out of oven and dice.
- get halfway through chicken to see it is raw inside.
- grumble and throw out chicken.
- catch soup as it's starting to boil over yet again
- put pot of soup in sink, scoop soup into bowl and attempt to eat.
- notice two hours later that rear burner (that I did not need) is still on! Turn off rear burner.
For everything that went wrong, it didn't turn out half bad. I just know this is a recipe I have to monitor from now on!