Cooking: Week 7 - Slow Cooking - Cilantro Lime Chicken

Week: 7
Theme: Slow Cooking
Dish: Cilantro Lime Chicken

We love our crock pot. I usually use it to make oatmeal, but we've made roasts and other stuff in it. For this week, we tried this recipe.

Cooking in a slow cooker isn't very exciting to photograph. Moreover, I didn't actually prep the food, Ofer made it while I was in class so I didn't take pictures of the process. So all I have are the end results.

There's not much for me to say. I didn't love this recipe. We left it in the crockpot for longer than 6 hours and the chicken came out dry. The sauce wasn't very delicious, though I think that would depend on what salsa you get (We got a Pace one). I didn't find the flavor of the chicken particularly good and the sauce was too pasta saucey. I'm not sure if I wanna make this recipe again. I have the leftovers sitting in my fridge but I haven't really touched them and it doesn't make me excited to eat.

On another note, we used a crockpot liner and they work wonderfully. We have a tiny shallow sink so washing the ceramic pot is super difficult. With the liner, we can just throw it out, wipe it down and it's clean. It's awesome.

Cooking: Week 5 - Alcohol - Flattened Chicken Breasts with White Wine Sauce

Hi everyone. Long time no update. I've just been super lazy about getting things done lately. :( And motivation to update the blog kind of petered away. Anyways, it's not week 5 this week; it's actually week 7. But we had cooked this dish on week 5 and I just never got around to posting this because I'm a lazy butt.

Week: 5
Theme: Alcohol
Dish: Flattened Chicken Breasts with White Wine Sauce

We took this recipe. Unfortunately we don't have any pictures of the pounding of the chicken, but Ofer actually pounded it out with his fists, lol. I don't know why he decided to do that, but it was quite entertaining to watch. We've been loving our cast iron, but we actually set it on fire the other day (post on that should be coming up!) but it seems okay. Cast iron is pretty resilient.

Mmmmmm, little chicken breasts, cook!

After pouring the white wine, it started bubbling like crazy. Felt like a witch with a cauldron. It steamed pretty heavily.

Stirring action!

More stirring! Our tongs are actually really hard to keep closed. They are just a cheap pair from ikea, but I think when we have more disposable income (or a good price comes around), we're gonna invest in a better pair of tongs that don't need that much force to close it. It really cramped my hand!

We served it with tortellini that we got from costco and made a simple homemade pesto sauce with it. It was really good. The chicken was super tender without being dry and the sauce really made it come alive. I'm not too big on white wine, but with the sauce, it was really good. It had the hint of white wine without it being too overpowering. We actually made a recipe like this again a few nights later.