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Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Disappointment

I had some boneless/skinless chicken breasts and a couple of eggplants, so I did a recipe search to come up with something different to make. As I've said before, I usually don't use recipes, but thought I'd look.  This was disappointing. It really needed 'something'. I put up the successes, so I thought I put up a failure. I won't put up the recipe, but it's chicken, grilled eggplant, chopped onion, called for tomato paste and 1/2 c water and I used crushed tomatoes, and oregano. It needed garlic and turmeric at the least. Bland.

Looks good, though!

11 comments:

Britwife said...

I have to say that it looks absolutely beautiful!

Memories Of Mine said...

It does look good, pitty it was bland for you to eat.

I love cooking from scratch, at least you know what is in the food you are eating, it's freasher, cheaper and tastier too. (most of the time)

Alicia @ boylerpf said...

You may think it tasted awful but it sure looked good! Garlic...the secret ingredient to anything and I mean anything! One lady told me yesterday that she was thrilled to have just bought her first garlic press. I think my mouth dropped as she is an avid cook..60 plus year old. We must go through 4 bulbs of garlic a WEEK! I have no clue how I got on garlic but seeing those tomatoes in your sauce...knowing you had eggplant...my mouth just watered!

Sandra said...

I followed the recipe, but I wondered why there wasn't any garlic in it. But I decided to follow the recipe. Mistake! I cook enough that I should follow my instinct. This is called Mediterranean Chicken & Eggplant, so in my opinion it needed some Turmeric and maybe a dash of cinnamon! It wasn't awful, just not special.

EveryoneThinksThey'reGoodDrivers said...

Nothing worse than bland food. I keep garlic salt and garlic pepper on hand for these situations. ;)

Sandra said...

I don't think that would have salvaged this.

Ganeida said...

Garlic! The more the merrier.

Sandra said...

I know, what was I thinking?

Jean L. said...
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Jean L. said...

I did NOT grow up with garlic. Do Germans not know about this? :~)

I discovered it as an adult and now use it in so many things. Onions and garlic are my friends.

Sandra said...

Not only does it taste good, but it wards off vampires and high blood pressure!