Julia Child Did Not Write for the Single Burner Kitchen

Chicken Paprikash Recipe
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Ingredients

* 1 whole chicken (about 3 1/2 pounds), cut into 8 pieces
* 1 Tbsp butter, softened
* 1 garlic clove, crushed
* 2 large onions, thinly sliced
* 1 Tbsp sweet Hungarian paprika
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 1/4 cup chicken broth
* 2 Tbsp sour cream

Method

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1 Preheat oven to 450°F. Pat chicken dry with paper towels. Mix butter with garlic. Use fingertips to spread mixture underneath the skin on the breasts and thighs.

2 In a small roasting pan, stir onions with paprika, salt, and 1/4 cup of water. Arrange chicken pieces in the pan. Cook chicken for about 10 minutes on 450°F, then lower the heat to 375°F and continue to cook an additional 30 minutes. Chicken is done when the internal temperature of the chicken reaches 175°F (use a meat thermometer), and the juices run clear when the thickest part of thigh is pierced with a knife. Note that breasts cook faster than the thighs, so you may want to take those out if done first, and let the thighs cook a few minutes longer.

3 Remove chicken pieces to a platter and let sit for 10 minutes. You may want to cut away the meat from the bones, and cut the chicken pieces into smaller pieces (entirely optional). Skim and discard fat from onion mixture in the pan. Add chicken broth to the onions. Placing the roasting pan on a stovetop burner, bring to boiling over medium heat, stirring to loosen the browned bits. Stir in sour cream. Serve chicken with onions spooned over it.


Look. I know you didn't need a recipe for delicious chicken... but I, I couldn't help myself.
I mean here I am in a place of my own (lacking in an actual kitchen) and all I wanted to do was make myself some delicious chicken.
EPIC FUCKING FAIL.
A) this isn't the chicken I tried to cook.
B) Lack of oven like apparatus (I have no oven to heat to 375, and I don't have a toaster oven either-- yet).
C) I only have a hot plate (yes, something you read in your dorm intro that you are explicitly forbade to have).

But now, you want to know what this has to do with relationships.
It has everything to do with relationships in an avant-garde over the top analogy kind of way.

Basically, I was not prepared for delicious chicken. Just as I was unprepared for the relationship I am in. Only, I am not complaining about the relationship. Just the lack of chicken.
See, chicken I know how to do. Relationships, I tend to faulter.

Especially this one.

I guess a little back story is needed here...
Just over a year ago I met my boyfriend. We became fast friends. In fact, I developed a crush on him specifically the night we we part of the filming of an art school film (Survived). But, upon developing the crush, I thought he was into another girl (my cousin-- she and I are almost attached at the hip). But still, I liked him. I liked hanging out with him. He was (and still is) the (second, to my best friend) most interesting person I know. I was completely fascinated by him. To this day, I don't think he knows how much I did (and still do) hang on his every word like some love-struck teenage girl.... Rather, I'm a love-struck 20-something. Back to the point, when we had met, I just moved back from California; and at that time, I did not want to be in a relationship with anyone. Inadvertently, this translated to not him. And ultimately he back away and I was violently pursued by another that I ended up dating. Upon that breakup, my current bf and I rekindled our friendship and finally started dating (and fell in love and are currently happily ever in the present, blahblahblah).

So, moral of the story, just like the chicken incident; I am completely ill prepared for this. But, I want it. I love it. And I am completely in love with it (mine and his relationship, not the chicken).