Dinner Disaster/Do Over

So, my chicken and dumplings dinner was kind of a disaster.  In fact, I had to throw the whole thing out.  In my defense, there were a couple of reasons why I missed a pretty important part of the recipe.

1.  I overslept b/c Sam didn't wake up until 10:30 so I was rushing to get all the ingredients in the crock pot so that dinner would be ready at a reasonable time.  Sam was screaming the whole time b/c he wanted a bottle.

2.  A couple of the reviewers said that using frozen chicken would be better b/c the chicken would be more moist .

Here's the problem.  You know how raw chicken comes on a little styrofoam tray wrapped in plastic?  You know how on the bottom of the chicken is some kind of plasticy/papery liner?  Well, I guess I didn't remember this and since the chicken was frozen, the liner was frozen to the chicken so I took the styrofoam tray off and dumped the chicken in the crock pot.  6 hours later when I go to stir the whole thing, I notice some papery gunk floating at the top and Ah-ha! I remember that I didn't remove the liner.  Yum!  I throw the whole thing out and need to find something else to make for dinner.  (Jack was really sweet b/c I was so upset and offered to eat it anyway.  Yuck!)

So, in the fridge I have thawed pork chops and carrots.  I have a couple of potatoes and rice in the pantry.  Let's make some pork fried rice, folks!  I use my mom's recipe and if I wasn't a lazy bum, I'd type it all out here so everyone could try to make it but nope...ask my mom if you really want it.

Jack found the camera.  Score!  I guess I should have checked my purse a little better.  (Doh!)  Here's a couple of pics of our delicious do-over.  I put a fried egg on top just like my mom does.

And...here's a pic of Sam just because every blog entry deserves some of his awesomeness.  (with his dad's "yeah, this is some good sh*t" smile)