Adventures in baking: Chicken and cake...oddly, no chicken cake.

[xaq_the_aereon]

...Ew. O_o

Anyway, yesterday I was in the mood to cook dinner, and wanted to try something new and somewhat gourmet. I ultimately decided on this oven-roasted chicken recipe...then, for no reason whatsoever, my brain just latched onto the idea of making it a truly restaurant-style experience by serving it at our oft-unused dinner table with napkin-wrapped silverware and everything, and I just went "Ahh what the hell?" and did it.

End result: ABSOLUTE SUCCESS. This stuff is freaking delicious. Definitely saving that recipe.

Today, I still had some baking inclination in me and nothing else to do, so I decided to tackle what I figured would be the most difficult task I'd faced yet...making a cake.

Turns out pouring water, oil, eggs, and a box of cake mix into a bowl, mixing it up for a few minutes, pouring it into a well-greased pan, and then tossing it in the oven for about an hour isn't as hard as I thought. :/

End result: CATASTROPHIC SUCCESS. This cake is too good. *urp*

Would try baking something again tomorrow, but work will get in the way of such plans. Oh well, maybe during the mid-day break..

Comments

[davidn]

From the title, I was hoping for some sort of disaster where you accidentally combined them - reading a recipe book and turning over two pages at once or something, I don't know :)

I suppose I'm just not used to the concept of livejournal entries in which cooking things actually goes as planned.

[xaq.livejournal.com]

Sorry man, but I've got too much sense about the kitchen to make that kind of a blunder. XP