#FoodTuesday #writingprompt
So one of my new cookpans is for frying chicken (high, straight sides), but it’s also a kind of half-Dutch oven. So I made this.
I cut the excess fat off the chicken and rendered it out, then rubbed the chicken with salt, pepper, and ground sage and browned it on both sides in the rendered chicken fat. I sliced an onion and an orange and put that on top of the chicken, covered it, turned down the heat, and cooked it low and slow for about four hours. Like a crock pot, essentially. Then I lifted the chicken out to rest and made a gravy with the juices. We had it over rice.
Its possible I’ll never use my crock pot again, unless I have to leave something cooking while I go somewhere.
My Instant Pot, now, that’s a ride or die.
A WRITING PROMPT FROM ME TO YOU: best kitchen cooking appliance
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Daniel Antion
October 22, 2026 at 5:23pmMy wife bought new pans years ago, including one like this. She has hardly ever used the oven since discovering that pan.
Marian Allen
October 23, 2026 at 10:32amSince there’s just me most of the time, it seems silly to turn on the oven when I can use the toaster oven, microwave, air fryer, and now this. Now, the oven is for company. I just have to keep myself from falling into the singleton habit of using the oven to store extra linens.