Category: chicken

Simple yet fun meals

Chicken prices have been crazy. Like 5 plus for wings or leg quarters for $5.90 for ten pounds and they are gone before they get off the truck.

I went to frozen items and got chicken patties and made my own light version of chicken parmesan over pasta.

I made a lighter sauce with spiced stewed tomatoes.

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I also used leftover chilli and made corn dog chilli bake.

Corn bread mix, hot dogs cut up, chilli, cheese and more corn bread mix and let cook in crock pot for three hours. You can also do this in an oven.

Both meals were fun and tasty.

Happy food

I’ve have made some really good meals this past week.

Sunday Chicken Marsala (drunken chicken)..it was over baked potatoes and they were good. Cherry tomatoes, mushrooms, and sauted breaded chicken in olive oil. Then cooked down in Marsala wine.

Ricotta cheese stuffed burger with sauted green peppers.

Homemade beef stew

I miss not having an oven as baking really makes me happy, but that is another blog.

Things I’ve learned in 2021 and Goals

  1. We used a lot of stimulus to buy food. (I really should have saved, but energy issues a huge with me. . . there are days just trying to prepare a meal and writing a diary entry will drain me.)
  2. Uberfood wasn’t that great. . . I had more problems with the app than I care to discuss.
  3. Door Dash has a lot of extra feeds. . . I am thinking I am ordering $43 dollars for fried chicken than is really 52, because extra fees. . . I hope they paid the drivers some of those fees. The problem is the chicken is really worth $28 . . . $35 at the most.
  4. Most of our local places have to charge 1.5% much for the same dish because they cannot afford drivers, because door dash is taking them all.
  5. I’ve had more and more lessen food quality with places. All of the prices have gone up from milk to meat to fast food. There are very few dollar items anymore. (Even the dollar store is not really the dollar store anymore.)
  6. I miss having a kitchen, dinning room table, and oven. (I really wish I had a better living situation.)
  7. I really like dark chocolate: with raspberry or orange.
  8. We made sushi several times this year, and I really have to give those who do it so well. . . it truly is an art.
  9. I am liking more pickles lately, and no I’m not pregnant. I really like bread and butter pickles.
  10. I have been satisfied with just a simply grilled cheese.

Food Goals. . .

  1. New creative chicken recipes
  2. New hamburger recipes
  3. More stews and soups.
  4. More different grilled cheese sandwich

Creamy corn, chicken bake

First of all, some of my family does not like the word casserole . . . So I made a bake.

Secondly, I’ve been off mentally and physically. However anyone can make this.

Shredded chicken mixed with cream of chicken soup, then cream corn and you make a jiffy corn bread mix and put it on top. Bake until corn bread is done. (It can also be made in a crock pot.)

You can add fresh corn, peppers, tomato, …

I crunched BBQ chips on top or you can use fried onions.

September meals

I’m sorry between writing issues and wifi issues and having to blog on a phone (computer issues), it was a bit hard to keep up with my cooking blog.

I did manage to take a few pictures of some interesting recipes we made.

Anyone can make these recipes with slow cooker, electric skillet and a microwave. (I have a very limited kitchen.)

I will post the pictures up.

One of my favorite meals in August was Orange Chicken with broccoli over white rice.

Orange chicken.

Last night I made orange chicken legs in the crockpot. I learned it about timing and layers. I seasoned the chicken add a bit of butter and water.

We squeezed one orange over the chicken and sliced two oranges just before the last hour of cooking. That the orange peel didn’t get too bitter.

I also made sweet potatoes with it, as they also taste awesome with the orange flavor.

BBQ and Hot Wings

The other day. . . I through several dozen chicken wings in the crock pot with some spices and butter. . . for a few hours.

Then I  put  them on the panini press for grill marks and tossed them into BBQ sauce. (My brother made his own hot sauce with melted butter. )

I took the broth from the chicken wing and used it to make butter noodles with corn.

They turned out really good and I would defiantly make them again.

I have learned you can always get creative and use everything we have.

Another Huge Feast

Turtle, Zeroman and I take advantage when we can get access to the kitchen. We had access yesterday and we made a feast.

Zeroman made . . .

  • two type of meatloaf (Plain and BBQ Candied Bacon with a mountain of cheeses),
  • seafood pasta salad,
  • BBQ and Mayo chicken,
  • mashed potatoes
  • Potato salad

I made . . .

  • Lasagna: two sauces, seven types of cheese and layer of meatballs.
  • Cheese rolled Lasagna with a cheese sauce
  • Soured beans
  • glazed and roasted carrots
  • chopped Mac N cheese

Turtle helped with both.

We also baked. . . chocolate pudding cake and very chewy brownies.

The lasagna and the lasagna cheesy rolls.

Here is the plain and candied bacon BBQ meatloaf.

Roasted  and glazed carrots

glazed and roasted carrots

The soured beans had bacon and were sour and yet tangy. It was grandma’s recipe and my mom had asked for them, so we made them just for her.

The brownies were chewy.

The cake was soft with the creamy pudding on top. . . yum.

It was a nice way for us to celebrate Mother’s day as Turtle, Zeroman, and I got to cook for our mothers.

We had three days worth of food as we also have leftover for tomorrow as well.