Genius Hour 1.6

This week was the first week that I ran into some trouble. I made chicken fajitas this week. My issue was that I was gone this weekend, so I did not have as much time as I usually do to cook. So, I only got to cook the chicken and I did not get as much practice as I usually do. I also had to prep everything, then go to practice, and then when I was cooking the food I would run and do homework in between it cooking.

Chicken fajitas are very simple and easy to make. We thawed out chicken, and cut it into strips, during this part I did almost cut myself, because I was in a rush and not using my cutting skills that I practiced, but I made sure to be careful after that. After you cut the chicken put it in a ziplock bag with fajita seasoning, and let it marinate. Then, after I let it sit for a while, I put a pan on the stove with a little splash of oil, enough to cover the bottom of the pan, and cook it covered on medium heat. After it cooks for a little bit, you go and flip the chicken pieces and let that cook until it is golden brown.

My cooked chicken.

I also sauted some onions to put with our chicken. I cut up an onion, which I started to do wrong, I went to dice it. When you make a dish like this, you want strips of onion, not diced onion. But once I got the onion cut, I put it in the pan that I had just cooked the chicken in to give it some flavor. Before I added the onions in, I put another small splash of oil, just so the onions would not stick to the pan, and it would also bring out more of that flavor on the pan. I did run into an issue when cooking the onions, I got a little full of myself and was flicking the pan of onions to mix them up and accidentally dumped half of the pan on the floor. I still had enough for my family, but my dog got a nice little snack last night.

Sauted onions

Once I had started going, this week's food turned out pretty good, even with a couple mistakes and lack of time. But the final product of the chicken fajitas, is to put the chicken and onions in a tortilla, and my family loved that I made them dinner. I think that my family will love next week, because I am going to try and make some steaks.