Jeff: Ooh blueberry cobbler! My favorite. Is that what you are making for dinner?
We’ve been together for 22 years and he knows me. Having dessert for dinner on a cold icy snow-stormy night would not be that far-fetched. But not tonight. Tonight I wanted to impress him. Contrary to popular belief, I really do like to impress my husband from time to time. I think he rocks.
Me: No, I’m making Cornish hens for dinner. The cobbler is for dessert.
Before you start thinking I’m this wonderful cook or something, I really need to tell you that my house has a kitchen because it came with one. And my family is well fed because, well… I try, but you know…I’m not Julia Child. I’m not even that other Julia chick that wrote the blog that got made into a movie. I’m the daughter of a baby boomer. I don’t sew and cooking is questionable.
Granted I do have my days where I am able to cook fantabulous meals. I think I just made that word up. Fantabulous is a good word. It means edible.
Apparently though, today is not one of those fantabulous days.
In honor of today’s winter storm I want to be daring and cook a fancy meal. I want to cook the kind of meal that is great to eat by candlelight, in case the power goes out. With my Cornish hens thawing in a sink full of cool water, I whip up a mean blueberry cobbler thing — (Cheaters cobbler: canned blue berries with yellow cake mix sprinkled on top. Dot with butter and bake for 30 minutes at 350 degrees.)
I bake the hens at 350 degrees for 90 minutes. They are brown and yummy looking. The legs wiggle when I move them and juices from the breast runs clear. They are P-E-R-F-E-C-T. I carefully set each plate with one Cornish hen, mashed potatoes and steamed snow peas. Everything looks and smells wonderful! My husband smiles, I smile and my son (who is already cutting into his hen) asks, “Mom is chicken supposed to bleed red all over everything?”
You know, blueberry cobbler for dinner on a cold, snowy night isn’t really that bad.
I hve never in the 20 years we’ve been married successfully cooked Rock Cornish Hens. He has, but I haven’t. I either dry them out or undercook them. They must not have been totally thawed.. I thought they were, but… cobbler works.
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Around my place, if it looks too good to eat, you probably shouldn’t try it because something is defintiely wrong. I specialize in MANGLED MEALS! If it looks like it got dropped on the floor and was ran over a few times with a roto-tiller…it is probably pretty good to eat. Love your story…
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