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Country Homeschool in the City
May. 17, 2009
Love the Chicken
We have been out of chicken for, well, probably 2 months or so. This has been sad but since we have a freezer full of beef from good old #801, well, I couldn't complain too much. But I had bought broccoli to make the "curry" chicken meal the kids love so much (a not-so-good-for-you, definitely not the curry in restaurants meal with 2 cans condensed chicken soup, mayo, curry powder, lemon juice, chicken, broccoli and cheese, served over rice) so I was feeling desperate to make something with the broccoli.
Scene 2: walking by the cooked chickens at Costco. I am always hesitant to buy these types of items. I mean, what IS in that seasoning? And gee, I can cook my own chicken! But this time, it seemed the answer to all my chicken problems. I only buy chicken from the butcher and since I can't drive for 6 months, I have to rely on DH to get me there and this is, well, slowing me down. I looked at the $7 chickens and the heavens opened up . . . oh the things to make with this already cooked meat!
Scene 3: we get home and there's a message on the machine from the dance teacher that she will swing by and pick me and DD up at 2:20 (see Scene 2 regarding not being able to drive). It is 1:40 and we are starving and just back from Costco. I whip out pre-cooked chicken and dive into the brown meat - planning on keeping most of the yummy breast meat for the curry chicken. I had bought some pitas and the dill ranch dressing the kids like and so put a bit of the dressing on the pitas and picked off the chicken meat in little bits and spread it out through the 6 pitas. I topped it with some fresh greens from my friend's greenhouse and we were good to go!
Scene 4: the family LOVES the pita wraps! huh, who'd have thought they'd be such a hit? Perhaps the near starvation helped  In any case, the guys each ate two and DD and I ate one each and were ready for our ride to dance. DS proclaimed that meal to be the best lunch ever.
Scene 5: we get home from dance and, again, I attack the chicken. Normally, when I roast a chicken, we eat it and then when I'm dealing with leftovers, I pick it apart and then boil the bones. Since the dance class time crunch, I had to tuck the bird into the fridge to deal with later. Somehow that's a bit ewie to me. Anyway, I pick off all this yummy meat, shocked at how much there really is on the bird, after we all ate such a good lunch too! So I make the curry chicken meal and we all eat a hearty dinner with lots left over. I considered holding back some of the chicken meat in my normal frugal style, but decided against it, in case I didn't get to making something with it.
Scene 6: I boil the chicken bones, thinking that they'd be a nice addition to the sweet potato fries I had made the other day. Sweet potato fries are very yummy but don't keep very well, so I thought I'd make a quick soup and blender the little suckers and make a nice cream soup. Chicken stock would be a nice addition to that.
Scene 7: We come in from Dairy training and my pseudo teen-daughter/neighbour girl is over so I invite her for lunch so the 5 of us eat the rest of the curry chicken meal.
Scene 8: In closing, today, I make the sweet potato soup, something different than I've ever made before and it is well received by all 4 family members  This makes me happy. And alas, that is the end of my $7 chicken. I could've dragged it out more but I feel pretty good with the convenience it offered me and the 2 lunches (meals for 8) and the 2 curry chicken meals (meals for 9).
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