I mean, who in their right mind makes fried chicken and potato salad on a cold (15 degrees), dreary, day in January? Well, I am making that for dinner tonight.
Actually, I'm making SMASHED potato salad because I'm too lazy to peel the potatoes and cut them into itty-bitty pieces. I also smashed the eggs with the potatoes. So, they're cooling off in the fridge, and I've got the celery, green pepper, and onion chopped ready to be added to the smashed mixture.
The chicken is "marinating" and is ready to be thrown, or rather, placed gently, into the hot oil, whenever I turn on the pan containing the oil. Dinner is ready to be cooked. A real summer treat, in the middle of winter. How weird is that?
ttfn
Friday, January 29, 2010
Monday, January 25, 2010
Update
I know I haven't written on this BLOG for ages and ages. Well, I've either not been cooking or I've been doing remakes.
Tonight, for instance, I did the old standby -- fettuccine Alfredo, with chicken. I decided since I wasn't really up for a meal at all, I'd just add "shaved" chicken. What is shaved chicken? Well, first of all, it's the easiest way to make a chicken dish go from two people two six or eight people, just by cooking more noodles.
If you get chicken fillets out of the freezer about an hour before you are going to cook the dinner, they will still be quite frozen. Being frozen it is much easier to cut the chicken into thinner pieces (shaved, if you will) and when you mix those pieces with the noodles, you really can't tell where the noodles leave off the the chicken begins. I mentioned that you should make this dish expand by shaving the chicken. I used one-half of one fillet for this meal tonight, and it was more than enough for two people. So you see how it expands the meal?
This works well for stir fry as well, in fact, especially well for stir fry. I use one fillet for the two of us.
So, you all know what I made for dinner tonight. It seems when I don't feel like eating I cook better, or is it just that I've come off a weekend of the cooking channel and am motivated to cook?
Did I mention that I baked a cherry pie today as well? The crust was wonderful. Crisp all the way through, just the way we like it.
ttfn
Tonight, for instance, I did the old standby -- fettuccine Alfredo, with chicken. I decided since I wasn't really up for a meal at all, I'd just add "shaved" chicken. What is shaved chicken? Well, first of all, it's the easiest way to make a chicken dish go from two people two six or eight people, just by cooking more noodles.
If you get chicken fillets out of the freezer about an hour before you are going to cook the dinner, they will still be quite frozen. Being frozen it is much easier to cut the chicken into thinner pieces (shaved, if you will) and when you mix those pieces with the noodles, you really can't tell where the noodles leave off the the chicken begins. I mentioned that you should make this dish expand by shaving the chicken. I used one-half of one fillet for this meal tonight, and it was more than enough for two people. So you see how it expands the meal?
This works well for stir fry as well, in fact, especially well for stir fry. I use one fillet for the two of us.
So, you all know what I made for dinner tonight. It seems when I don't feel like eating I cook better, or is it just that I've come off a weekend of the cooking channel and am motivated to cook?
Did I mention that I baked a cherry pie today as well? The crust was wonderful. Crisp all the way through, just the way we like it.
ttfn
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