As you know, if you've been reading over the last week or two, I've been mad cooking lately. I was really excited about making Christmas dinner - nothing fancy... mini chicken with spuds and carrots and gravy made from the juices of the bird. Simple and yummy. Roll around christmas afternoon when I go to start dinner and I find, to my great disgust, that the bird isn't defrosted yet. It was 24 hours in the fridge and it looked as if it just came out of the freezer. Obviously, I had no other plans. Who plans for a contingency dinner on Christmas day (I will in future, that's for certain). Fearing the worst, but slightly hopeful, we left River and headed out into the great metropolis, looking for somewhere that would feed us. And did we find anything... of course not. lordkilljoy ended up having a fast food burger and I waited until we got home and heated up some leftover calzone (which was yummy, but that's beside the point).
Christmas dinner was put off until today, but you know what... the chicken still isn't defrosted. Oh my god, like. What is this? Antarctic bird or something. Come on. It's about 1/3 the size of a normal chicken. It should have been defrosted yesterday. So again, we are left with nothing to eat. At least today places will be open. Sigh. Christmas dinner take 3 will be happening tomorrow. Tune in then.
Defrosting that little bird.
ReplyDeleteRia, it will take months for the bird to defrost if you leave it in the fridge. The temperature differential is just not enough: -28 to +2. We normally defrost on the window sill in summer and on a radiator in winter, and its still a bit frozen after 5 or 6 hours. If you're worried about too rapid defrosting, at least bring it out into the living area and get it out of the fridge. What about a microwave defrosting?
Anyway, we both found your rant very amusing, even though we felt sorry for your spoiled Christmas day.
Love, Mary and Brian.
Awh... your poor christmas dinner. The worst part is that you were so looking forward to and you were super excited.
ReplyDeleteWell hopefully your christmas dinner was good when you did cook it.