CHEAP CHICKEN
You cannot beat a store roasted chicken in terms of meals for your dollar. I mean really you can’t even buy a roasting chicken to cook as cheaply as the chickens that are offered at your local market; plus you don’t have to cook it! Okay that can be a down side as well as a benefit. If you live and shop where there are Giant Supermarkets they have a couple of different seasoning styles; ranging from honey, Chesapeake, plain or my own personal favorite, Bourbon. Not to mention they do cheap chicken Fridays, where the bird is only $5. Our local market, Gersbecks, does a good plain chicken that sells every day for $5.99. Granted that all of these chickens are on the small side, still Mungo and I can always get three meals, at least out of one these birds, do the math people!
Meal one is almost always chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, or stuffing. I’ve just started to play with stove top dressing and am not happy with the result to date. Next time i will try making it in the dutch oven. Meal two this time around was chicken and dumplings.
It was a cold rainy day and a yummy chicken stew with lots of veggies really hit the spot. You should note that the best dumpling recipes call for buttermilk, something that most of us do not keep in the fridge on a regular basis. Certainly living aboard there’s not really room for an extra quart sized container our 3.1 cubic foot refrigerator Not to mention after using the 1/2 cup or so of buttermilk the rest of it usually sits in the fridge until it goes really bad. Buttermilk, however, is really easy to make. Just measure out your regular milk, 1 cup, in a glass container and add between 3 - 4 tablespoons of lemon juice or white vinegar, stir it up and thirty minutes later you have buttermilk. Mungo and i can never eat all the dumplings you can make from a normal recipe, leftover dumplings just don’t cut it with me. However leftover dumpling batter will keep overnight with refrigeration and it is really easy to make awesome fruit dumplings for breakfast the next day. Try them with blueberries and maple syrup! Yum yum, but i digress.
Meal three is almost always a chicken salad or some sort. There are as many variations on chicken salad as there are cooks; but in my humble opinion there should always be chicken (well, duh!), celery, some sort of onion, mayo and of course in summer served on or in a perfect vine ripened tomato!
Bon appetite!
More later,
Morgainne
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