Project 365 – #133
Okay, so that’s a slight exaggeration, but it was a time consuming failure. Let me step back in time for a moment…
This evening, I decided that I’d make some Mexican chicken with a lovely cream sauce served with peas. I put the cast iron skillet on the burner to get it nice and hot as I wanted a nice sear on the chicken. As I waited for the pan to heat up, I started dicing onions and green peppers. The boneless, skinless chicken breasts sizzled as I placed them into the hot skillet. I turned down the heat and sprinkled the chicken breasts with Mexican seasoning, flipped them over, and sprinkled seasoning on the other side.
As I placed another skillet on top of my main skillet to act as a lid, I heard D call out, “it’s starting to smell really good in here!” The smell of Mexican chicken was starting to fill the air. Mmmm…. I tossed the onions and green peppers into the skillet, and put the “lid” back on the pan. A few minutes later, I added some water to the hot skillet to create some steam to keep the chicken nice and moist.
Once the chicken was cooked, I removed it from the pan and started to make the sauce. I added some milk and sour cream, a little black pepper, a sprinkle of Mexican seasoning. A little taste test confirmed that the flavor was delicious. I just needed to add a little tapioca starch to thicken up the sauce. I started whisking in the tapioca starch then oops! A big poof of tapioca starch found it’s way to my beautiful sauce. Immediately, the texture changed into something rather disgusting. **pout**
Oh well…. Thankfully, we ended up with a nice chicken dinner. It was just missing the epic failure cream sauce. The sauce did end up being an interesting topic of conversation. lol!
