A Chicken Marsala Disaster!

Yesterday I decided that I would make more time to cook some meals and try new recipe's. I went to allrecipes.com and was flipping through them. One of the recipe's was for chicken marsala. So, I set out to the grocery store and purchased all of the ingredients. I was very excited for Mike to come home and I could cook him a nice meal (he loves chicken marsala). Hopefully I didn't ruin it for him =)

I ran into a few speed bumps all the way. I was cooking the chicken and when I flipped it to the other side it was a perfectly light brown color. I was so pleased with myself and excited that I forgot to brown the other side of the chicken. So I continued on and poured in the mushrooms, cooking sherry, and marsala wine. A few minutes later it hit me, I forgot to cook the other side of the chicken!!!



I yelled for Mike to come help me, and he came to my rescue! We dumped all the mushrooms and juices out and started cooking the other side of the chicken.
When that was finally done I poured the marsala wine, the sherry and the mushrooms in and continued on like it had never happened.



After I let it simmer for 10 minutes like the directions said to, it still didn't look quite right and I let it simmer some more (I think our stove doesn't work the way it's supposed to). After another 10 minutes or so I decided that it should be done by then and served it up...






It looked nice and it looked like it would taste good. Oh how looks can be deceiving. It was a disaster! The wine taste wasn't cooked out all the way and the taste of wine was a little too overpowering. And for Mike and I who are not wine connoisseurs, we didn't care for it too much.

So that specific recipe is to be wiped out and I shall try a different one later on this week. I have about 5 more new recipes I copied from the internet and I'll be sure to blog about those.