Kitchen Faux Pas

Let me preface this with this statement.....being the good Southern woman that I am....I am a good cook. Yes, there have been times that a recipe has disappointed me, but I can't take blame for that.

So here's what happened:

I took a package of stew meat out of the freezer, intending to make a pot of stew in the pressure cooker  and have it for supper the next couple of days. I got all my ingredients in place, and started to unwrap the beef...but then...wait a minute...I don't buy stew meat wrapped in white butcher paper. I buy a London broil, cut it in half, and cook one half as a steak for me and Dave, and cube the other half for stew, storing it in a freezer bag.

I went ahead and opened the paper package I'd thawed and it was a large boneless chicken breast. *+*+*Sigh*+*+*

Ok, plan B. I pushed all the stew makin's aside to make Friday or so. Today, since I had a thawed hunk of chicken, I decided to make Orange Chicken. I unwrapped the chicken, and put it in the slow cooker and set it for a couple of hours.

I took the lid off to cube my chicken and make the sauce to pour over rice and....wait a minute....that doesn't look right....WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!?!?

Stuck to the bottom of my cooked chicken breast was a ziploc bag. I peeled it off and saw it had something white in it. More chicken? BONUS!

Well I couldn't unzip it cause it was cooked closed, so I slit it open with a knife and inside was.......flour.

Somehow, the flour that I had ready to dredge my beef in for stew wound up in the slow cooker and I didn't see it and put the chicken breast on top of it and cooked them both together.

Oh well.....it all has orange sauce on it, so it's gotta be good.

However, after getting the breast out and dicing it and warming it up in the orange sauce, it has the consistency of that flour. Ugh. I think I'll blame it on the recipe.

Thank goodness for orange sauce.