Chicken in a Chicken

For today's dinner, Justin did an adaptation of his chicken from last week, Five-Spice Chicken. Justin was really impressed with his chicken, if you can remember. It also got a pretty good response, since it looked quite pretty. Today, however, we have three extra people trying his dish out. Will it stand up to expectations? Hehe, here we go!

What you need:
Chicken thighs (we had enough for 6 people)
Cornflour, for coating
1 tablespoon Sainsbury's Chicken Seasoning
1 tablespoon bicarbonate of soda
1 tablespoon garlic powder
2 tablespoons chicken stock powder
2 tablespoons white pepper

What you do:

1. Preheat the oven to 200 C. Mix all the dry ingredients together.
2. Coat the chicken with the flour mixture.
3. Place in the oven and bake for 45 minutes, or until chicken is cooked through.

Instead of Chinese five-spice, Justin used Sainsbury's Chicken seasoning instead. This seasoning powder has salt, paprika, onion powder, celery and cayenne pepper in it. The whole point of the Chicken in a Chicken name was because this was CHICKEN with CHICKEN seasoning and CHICKEN stock. Creative people in this house, uh-huh. Tonight's chicken looked as good as its predecessor, hehe. All golden and crisp. It looked almost as good as fast food chicken even! Hehe, what do you think?

As for the taste, I thought it was pretty yummy~ There were no whoops of joy from Justin this time around, but he was probably restraining it because of our guests, hehe. I thought it tasted better than last time's, but that's because I am not that big a fan of Chinese five-spice powder, maybe, hehe.

Our guests were also enthusiastically tucking into their dinners, which Justin was relieved about, I'm sure. He kept on badgering me to check my blog on what he did last time, heh. He claims not to care what he cooks, but he actually really does, hehe.

One thing that soon became apparent though, was that... OUR RICE COOKER IS NOT BIG ENOUGH. At least, not big enough to cater for 6 people - or rather 5 people and 1 Justin, heh. Justin offered to cut down on what he ate, but at the end of the dinner, people were still scraping the bottom of the rice cooker, phoo~ Hadi especially, hehe, since our guests were too polite (or maybe too shy? :P) to ask for more.

What to do about this? Cut down our appetites maybe, hehe. Not very likely though. Use two rice cookers? Maybe, but that'll be such a bother, heh. Serve more courses? Hehe, possible but way too expensive. Sigh, its sad being a student, isn't it? :P

Quote of the day: . . . even those for whom cooking is an oppressive chore or a source of self-doubting anxiety, acknowledge that a meal shared by friends and family is one of the bonding rituals without which the family, society even, can fall apart.