Smoked Gouda and Spinach Stuffed Chicken Breasts with a Mushroom-Wine Brown Sauce and Spicy Corn. Here we go:
-Smoked Gouda? Basically bacon-flavoured cheese. Awesome.
-Spinach? Well, it's spinach. Meh.
-Spicy Corn? Corn on the cob with lemon pepper. Surprisingly good!
-Mushroom-Wine Brown Sauce? Le gross. SO not what I was expecting. And the weirdest thing was, you had to thinly slice an onion and cook it in butter until it was brown. Then DISCARD the onion and add the mushrooms, flour and wine. Okay, maybe Betty had all this money to be cooking things just to throw them away, but Scott and I had trouble with this one. I actually asked him to read the recipe himself just to make sure I wasn't having some sort of culinary hallucination. Nope. "Discard Onion."
Sometimes I wonder what kind of cookbook I would write myself. Like, between "1. Saute thinly sliced onion in butter." and "2. Discard onion." would I have the following directions:
1.25 Blink furiously at cookbook. Question your ability to read. Ask boyfriend to read recipe.
1.50 Argue with boyfriend about recipe. Curse Betty for being such a wasteful b*&#@.
1.75 Burn your finger on melted butter and onions. Scream the F-word until boyfriend FINALLY turns around to ask if you are okay. Say, "Yeah, I'm great. I scream like that when I'm great." Laugh uncontrollably when boyfriend kisses your finger better, smacks his lips and says, "Mmmm... I think you're actually still cooking."
Never, ever a dull moment. My cookbook would be honest though. Just call me Betty 2.0
Ew! Cooked finger!!!!!
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