Leftover largesse: from bland to bling September 13, 2012 Roast chicken lawar Whenever I’ve invited people over for dinner and then find I have ended up with almost no time to cook, I tend to fall back on an old favourite in this house – roast chook. ...
Food: had a nice lunch in France with veal and mushrooms, a great indian dinner with a lovely chicken tikka and pizza the day after. Clothes: finally time to wear my new sandals and some summer dresses! Hobby: bought a low waste pattern bundle from chris wood and made the casita dress...
A handful of cooked or leftover chicken, shredded 4 broccoli florets, par-cooked and crumbled 220g can of baked beans in tomato sauce 60g mature cheddar, grated (I use grated edam cheese, because it’s 25% lower in fat!) Direction ...
Combine the shredded chicken,artichoke hearts, carrots, and celery in a large bowl. Pour the sauce over the contents and use tongs to gently fold everything together (so the chicken doesn’t fall apart too much). Taste and re-season with salt and pepper, if necessary. This salad is best...
you’ll be drinking it in one sitting. You don’t want to water down the sangria when the ice starts to melt, heaven forbid. This sangria will keep a few days in the fridge – actually, I doubt that because it’s so mouthwatering good that you won’t have much leftover. Just ...
Place the lid on the pot, and gently shake the pot back and forth over the heat. After a minute or two, the kernels will begin to pop. Keep shaking the pot steadily until the popcorn popping slows then remove from the heat. Do not wait quite as long as with the buttered popcorn, ...
chicken from the grocery store. I choked up a little bit, but I also felt as physically connected to her as I have in a long time, and she’s been gone for 10 years now. Looking at her perfect handwriting (why can’t I write like that?) on the card with a small stain in the...
If you don’t think you have anything to do with this, then maybe you have never used a prescription medication in your life – tested on kidnapped chimpanzees and other primates. We may not be the ones specifically encroaching on chimpanzee habitat or stressing their populations, but everythi...
I made a roast chicken, then made chicken tortilla soup with some of the leftover chicken. Then I made pork carnitas, then we had pulled pork sandwiches, then last night I made Brunswick stew with the leftover pork and chicken. FRUGAL AT LAST! Not sure about tonight. There’s ...
But, no fixin’s in the frig so tonight will be: frozen boneless chicken breast (discounted) cooked in discounted tikka masala sauce, using some cream I bought for the classroom coffee, and served over vintage shelf-stable packet of wild rice from TJ’s — really not sure if it is ...