Photo 154 - Chicken Curr...YIKES!

Ever since Short Person's babysitter mentioned the words "Chicken Curry" two-weeks ago, I've been craving it. My mom used to make it for special occasions when we had a lot of people to serve. It's a scrumptious chicken sauce, over rice, topped with things like peanuts, coconut, hard-boiled eggs, etc. I haven't had it in YEARS, but I remembered that I had asked my mom to give me the recipe and somewhere I still had it.

About three days ago, I located the recipe and added the item to our menus for the month. I purchased the supplies and got up early to begin the process of making it. Since it has to cook on low heat for about five hours, scheduling is important. My thought was that I'd get up and put it in the Crockpot before work and come home to reduce the heat to warm at lunch.

Unfortunately, the recipe was written prior to the invention of Crockpots and there are apparently a few variables between stove-top low and Crockpot low. When I got home, the mixture was boiling. BOILING!! Do you know what happens to milk when it is boiled for five hours?!?! Yeah, me either. But, I found out.

It curdles.




As if that weren't bad enough, I had to call LJS and tell him that he was right and that I did find "some way to ruin dinner". I'm embarrassed to say I was choking back tears when I did it, a testament to how badly I wanted dinner to turn out.

And even if those two things weren't bad enough, I managed to ruin dinner again three hours later when I attempted to take the chicken meant for the curry and turn it into chicken tacos.

I am jinxed. I am so not meant to cook.

And yet, as soon as I have a day where I can stay home and make sure my stove-top low heat does not boil the curry sauce, I am trying again.