Yesterday I decided to try out a new crockpot recipe: Jerk Chicken. My sister in law Tiffany was coming over to hang with us so I figured it was the perfect time. Sadly I think I’ve now had my first crockpot fail. Though Beth & Tiffany were nice enough to say it still tasted good.
Monday night I cut up all the veggies to try and speed up the prep time yesterday morning. One of the ingredients was habanero and after my last experience with habanero I knew I needed gloves of some sort, so I got creative. Yes, those are grocery bags covering my hands and it worked! (thanks for taking the picture sis)
I loaded everything up in the crockpot, turned it on and headed to work. Then…about 2:00 tornadoes started rolling into Dallas. It made for quite an interesting afternoon. And while I was at work, the power at home went out…oh joy…best guess the power went out about 3 pm because by 5:20 when I got home the crockpot had almost cooled. Luckily the chicken still cooked; so that wasn’t how this recipe was a failure.
Weirdly even after being in the crockpot and cooking for 6 ish hours the chicken did look a lot like it did this morning when I first put it in:
And I really didn’t think it looked too appetizing….but I served it anyway…once I got it out of the crockpot and onto a plate it definitely looked better. It had some flavor and the chicken was moist (eww), but it wasn’t that spicy. Isn’t jerk chicken supposed to be spicy?
My favorite part of the meal was actually the zucchini that Tiffany made. After slicing it in half she drizzled it with olive oil and then sprinkled parmesan ontop. It was really good and I don’t really even like zucchini, but I’m trying to get better! I’m pretty sure this was a recipe from Pintrest.
The night definitely wasn’t an overall fail because I always have a good time with my sisters. We did of course have some wine. Beth picked up one I’d never had before . The Meritage from Sterling was really good!
Needless to say, I will not be making the Jerk Chicken recipe again and I’m bummed to have had a cooking failure with the crockpot. It had never let me down before!
BUT IT REALLY WAS GOOD!! I’d totally eat it again…let’s just make it spicier! =) I also think it’s hilarious that someone on twitter said if your power went out then the meal would just look like it did this morning and then you know ….it did! Ha, love my sisters too!
I have a great recipe for jerk chicken that I got in Jamaica. I’ll share it with you! And we’ll just try to make it crock pot friendly? 🙂
may I suggest a crockpot/slowcooker liner…. I didnt notice one in the pic. It REEEEALY helps in clean up! the chicken looked good despite your power outage!:)
Yeah, what Nicole said. Crock pot liners are the BEST THINGS EVER.