Spanish Night !

Since I haven't talked about Sunday dinners in a while I figured I would update you about last night. So the mother decided to make piaya, not sure if it was because she wanted to be creative or if she had veggies and chicken she wanted to get rid of. But in any case, she decided to make the Spanish dish. Now normally is has seafood, pork and chicken in it., but since she didn't have seafood or pork, chicken was the only meat that went into the dish. I should have known when I walked into the house that it would be an interesting meal. Since the mother had already half cooked the chicken and was making the rice...... but as she was doing it, she kept saying " I'm not sure this looks right, and the chicken is looking a little too white." But like most meals, I don't question, I just wait till it is on the table. Which by the mother's estimation, would be 1/2 an hour......since the chicken was mostly cooked and it was just the rice and veggies that need to be baked. 45 minutes later, the mother was still taking the baking dish out, checking the chicken, which was not cooking at all.....but the rice was starting to get over cooked. So she dumped a can of chicken soup to help the rice and back into the oven it went for a little bit longer. We starting eating our salads and 15 minutes later, the mother gets up again to check the main dish. Still the chicken in not cooked, well most of it is not cooked, so she digs it out and into the microwave it goes , for some fast cooking. She brings the mostly veggie and rice dish to the table and begins to dole it out to everyone. Rands and I get our plates and try to cut the meat, to our surprise it doesn't cut all that well. I figured it was just that it might have been over cook, so I take a bite.... and the chicken is flavored not of saffron and spice, but of FREEZER BURN. I turn to my right and Rands is trying to chew a bite also. We both spit it out on the plate... and say. " Sorry to tell you this Mom, but the chicken is NAS-TA, it taste gross and is way dried out." With that A.B. had to remove a bite from his mouth too. Which is extremely strange, since A.B. will eat just about anything. The mother then turned to Howie and said, " I thought the chicken looked a little freezer burned when I took it out to thaw, I guess we will have to check all the chicken in the freezer. Everyone throw out your chicken and we will just eat the rice and veggies. Good thing I made a big pan of apple crisp for dessert." The mother has only made a few bad meals in your history.... i guess this one will be added to the list. Thank goodness is wasn't as bad as the lemon-grass chicken. Now that was just plan awful!