I really wanted to use my crockpot again and have a delicious successful dinner. I did a nice food shopping and I was ready to get started on honey garlic chicken with vegetables.
I was ready! I gathered up all my ingredients like any other day and had positive thoughts in my head about tonight's dinner.
I loaded up the bottom of the crockpot with my red potatoes and went to work.
Next up, chicken thighs.
I measured and mixed up all the ingredients to create the seasoning. I used the measurements given in the recipe but I didn't use the whole mixture. I have a smaller crockpot (boo) and in return had to use less potatoes and chicken originally called for.
I guess I could have just used the rest, right?
Anyway, I turned on my crockpot and walked out the door. When I came home hours later, my apartment smelled like we were about to indulge in something delicious. When I opened the lid.....I didn't quite feel that way anymore.
Something wasn't right.
I continued on with my dinner routine. I steamed our vegetables and set the table. Lets keep positive, I thought to myself. I took out the chicken and it didn't look too too bad. So that's always a good thing. When the meat in a meal is ruined, there is literally no bright side to anything.
Ok. Now for the potatoes.
The color of the potatoes is due to the soy sauce, honey, ketchup, garlic mixture. One of my mistakes is that I didn't even try one of them before figuring out how to fix them. I was a little nervous about what the texture of these were going to be. Knowing Hubs, he wasn't going to like them. Just by looking at them I thought, these are going to be too mushy and I need to fix the problem. Why didn't I just taste them first?
So, I took out my trusty hand mixer!
If Hubs isn't going to like mushy cut potatoes, he sure will like mashed mushy cut potatoes. Right? WHY DIDN'T I JUST TASTE THE POTATOES!??!
I added a little sour cream and went to mashing. And this is what I got....................
Oh please don't judge me!!!
It was time to finally taste them. FINALLY! What took me so long???
IT WAS NOT GOOD!!! It was sticky and thick and cement like! What was I going to do now? I guess I'll just serve it to my husband....That night for dinner, I gave Hubs an A++ for effort! He said things like, "It's really not that bad." "I like it." "Babe, look, I'm eating it. It's good."
.....he was lying.