SMILES – A while back I made a yummy chicken dinner… well basically that is our standard dinner most days.  Chicken is good and very easy to season for any taste.  I had a request to make that particular one I made a while back tonight.

TRIALS – I have no idea what I made a while back… I seriously need to make notes each dinner.  I cook up 4+ pounds of chicken a week in the slow cooker.  Each day I walk into the pantry, pick out this or that, or all of this and all of that, throw it into a pot with some of the cooked chicken… and …. dinner.  All I had to go by is it was orange and not a saucy chicken.  So I put in butter, garlic, smoked paprika and onion powder.

It was good, yet not the mystery chicken I cooked a while back.  I will perfect the mystery chicken and make up a recipe of it once I figure out what I did a while back.

The smiles and trials of cooking your own food, yet never sticking to a recipe.

Always make notes, because some day you may want to re-make that dish.