Hee Hee

I tried a new recipe for dinner tonight. It was awesome and can be found here: http://www.ourbestbites.com/2008/03/taco-chicken/ .

I didn't follow the directions exactly because my chicken was frozen so I tried to just throw the marinade stuff on top of the frozen chicken breasts in my crockpot on high and then figured I would throw the spices in later. They were only partially cooked after 2 hours and I was impatient so I took them out, put the spices on, and broiled them. I think it worked really well.

The funniest thing happened while they were in the crockpot. I was at my mother in law's house to escape the 87 degree temperature in my own house. I went upstairs to check on the chicken as Jo was coming in the door from being outside. She looked at me and said, "It smells like something dead in here. Do you smell it??" I said, "No, I only smell garlic." Then she replied, after taking another sniff "Oh yeah... I guess that is garlic."

Maybe it's only funny to me because I know she doesn't use garlic a lot and there was a situation a couple of year's ago for one of the nieces or nephews birthdays when copious amounts of Sam's Club take 'n bake pizzas were purchased. At the time, our Sam's had just started to carry these cheesy garlic breadsticks with the take 'n bake pizza. As the breadsticks were cooking (and smelling very garlicy), Jo wandered into the kitchen and asked, "Do you smell that?? It smells like wiring is melting somewhere!" Someone said that all they could smell was the garlic from the breadsticks so Jo came and took a sniff and then replied that it was the breadsticks she was smelling. We all had a good laugh. Then a short time later, when we were ready to eat, Wade came downstairs from his bedroom and upon entering the living room asked, "Why does it smell like melting wiring in here??"

Who knew the smell of garlic could be so repulsive? :)