Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Notes on Short & Fruity Chicken; add Pot Roast?

Cost: $30 for 8 meals including orange-spinach salads = $3.75 each --
not bad
Yield: 8 meals.... a little more than half a week
Taste: High
Difficulty: Average. Probably spent 45 min chopping veggies/garlic and
half an hour trimming/breading chicken. Cook time is about 7 minutes
for the Popcorn Chicken and 30 for the Lemon-Herb Chicken.

Egg seemed to help bond the chicken coating and the sauce; I also
tossed in a little cornstarch which seemed to help thicken a bit.
However, do NOT go nuts and dump in enough broth to fill a huge pan.
Doesn't cook down fast enough. Be moderate.

Keep lots of butter handy -- it takes plenty to brown the pieces, and
if you do it in waves you will need to toss more butter each time.

This might be a good match with Bobbie's Pot Roast, since you are
already chopping carrots and would just add potatoes? Can brown the
roast in the pan before simmering the chicken. Yum!

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Next half-week plan: CFS with mashed potatoes and green beans

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