Sunday, August 8, 2010

Appa is dead!

Ok, so you might be a little bit confused at the title of this one but, no worries, I will explain!  

Things started to go wrong, after The Boyfriend woke up this afternoon and told me that he was an early start tonight, so he would have to leave at about 3:30.  That meant he wasn't going to be able to have dinner with us.  I had texted my friend, JLC, earlier and asked if her and her daughter, my goddaughter Daisy, would like to come over for our special dinner.  I was extremely excited that she said they'd come!  It worked out for the best, because I really wanted to have an adult opinion about what I made. 

What we had for dinner:  I ended up making a jicama bread stuffing and stuffing the hens with it.  The hens I really just treated like they were baby chickens.  If I ever work with cornish hen again, I would like to figure out something else to do with them.  I made a boy choy stir fry, which also included celery, mushrooms, onions, broccoli and the rest of the jicama.  I included a sesame ginger sauce, salt, pepper, adobo and garlic power into the stir fry.  Then I got a little fancy with dessert and "plated" an ice cream sandwich. :D


The result:  I ended up not really making enough of the bread stuffing, so the hens were only about 3/4 stuffed. :)  I have to say, I'm kind of glad that I treated the hens as if they were baby chickens... because that's really what they tasted like!   The stuffing was really good, as was the stir fry.


The responces: 

Princess:  She said that the stuffing was good, if you were someone who likes stuffing.  She's never really cared for stuffing, but she at least ate it!  She LOVED the stir fry, although she said she wished there was a little more sauce in it. She really didn't care for the hen, she liked it alright, but she hated the fact that there was a lot of bones in it and that she had to take the meat off of it. She also got kinda grossed out because she accidentally snapped the spinal cord on it. She also licked the plate clean that her ice cream sandwich was on. :D

Monkey:  He loved the stir fry, but he said that the hen just tasted like chicken.  He also loved the stuffing and licked his ice cream sandwich plate clean. :)

Me:  I have to agree with both Princess and JLC, the stir fry was great, although it needed more sauce.  I really wish I had made some more of the stuffing, I would have liked that just by itself!  I could barely get any of the hen's meat, without also putting some small bones in my mouth.  

JLC:  She too loved the stuffing, and the stir fry, and didn't really care for the hen.  She agreed with Princess that the stir fry could have used more sauce to it. 

Daisy:  I ended up making her some hot dogs, because JLC said she wouldn't eat the hens.  She really liked the hot dogs though!  She also ended up asking for a small plate of the stir fry and she said she liked it. :)  She thought that the plated ice cream sandwiches were cute and ate every bit of it.

What's with the title?!  Ok, now for the story about the title.  Daisy is 6 years old and she is currently in LOVE with Avatar: The Last Airbender (she said that if he lived around here, he would date her).  While we were eating dinner, I was discussing with JLC about next weeks dinner, and how I was thinking of using bison.  Daisy's ears perked up at that, and asked me "Flying bison?".  We all had a bit of a laugh about it.  Then, she pointed to my plate, at the hen and said "That's Appa.  He's dead now".  Then she pointed at the stir fry and told us that it was "Appa's food".  You can't even IMAGINE the laughter!! :D  She continued though-out the dinner, asking us if Appa tasted good.  After we were all done eating, she decided to inform us that it really wasn't Appa that we ate, it was little Appa instead.  And little Appa is now dead, but he's alive still too.  Then she went into great detail about how we all killed little Appa for dinner.  I think she might need a small break from watching Avatar!   LOL!

All in all, I have to say the dinner was a success.  The stir fry was great, as was the stuffing, even the hens were ok, just no one really liked the fact that it was incredibly difficult to get the meat off without getting some of the bones too.  I discovered that jicama tastes like a combination between potato and apple, and raw bok choy kind of tastes like sulfur, at least the leafy part does.  I did take pictures, so you all can see what I made.  I wish you could taste it though!



Thanks,
Jazaray

2 comments:

  1. did you use the recipe for the stuffing, cause I kind of want to try that now...

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  2. Well, I used some of the recipe. Sorta.

    What I did was:

    1/4 cup butter
    1 1/2 cups chopped jicama
    3 cups cubed, toasted bread
    1/2 cup chopped onions
    1/2 cup chopped celery
    1 tsp dry, ground sage
    salt and pepper to taste
    1/4 cup apple cider

    Saute the celery and onions in the butter until they're soft, not browned.

    Add them to the other ingredients in a large bowl and mix it up. Then I also put the mixture into my Ultimate Chopper, because the pieces seemed to be too big for a stuffing and it didn't really mix up very well.

    Then I stuffed it into the hens. :D

    Thanks,
    Jazaray

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