Category Archives: Poultry
Vegetable stir-fry with chicken 5/22/22
Tonight I just was not feeling our usually eggs on Sunday so I switched the eggs to a little chicken that we had. The chicken is a very small part of my stir-fry, more like a condiment than a main … Continue reading
Chicken with quadruple vegetables 5/9/22
Rotisserie chicken and McCormack’s chicken gravy took care of the protein portion of our dinner. Unfortunately the white rice we were planning on having had languished in the refrigerator too long so it got pitched. I had been planning on … Continue reading
Chicken enchiladas and spicy black beans 5/5/22
In celebration of Cinco de Mayo we made chicken enchiladas and spicy black beans. Our method is pretty simple. Buy a jar of salsa verde, corn tortillas, feta cheese, and rotisserie chicken. Shred the chicken. Put a layer of salsa … Continue reading
Chicken Marsala with sheet pan squash and sprouts 4/25/22
The most onerous job in this dinner was cutting the sprouts in half! The chicken is pulled rotisserie breast meat from Costco and heated through in the sauce. The sauce is a packet of McCormack’s chicken gravy made with Marsala … Continue reading
Lentil soup with turkey sausage 4/21/22
We got back from vacation last night and I needed to find something fast and easy to make with the few things I had available. Let’s see, I have turkey sausage, a piece of an onion, some carrots, and some … Continue reading
A sandwich and soup. 4/2/22
Our son came over today to play tennis with John and afterwards we picked up banh mi from Lee’s Sandwiches which is a Vietnamese chain here in California. I love banh mi with its delicate crunchy roll and its pickled … Continue reading
Chicken “piccata” with broccoli and Vichy carrots. 3/28/22
The reason I call this sort of chicken piccata is because we did not start out with a butter sauce. We used our stand-by, McCormack Chicken Gravy, to use as a base. Instead of making the mix with a cup … Continue reading
Chicken and gravy with mixed mash, broccoli and leek. 3/21/22
This was an easy, tasty dinner with the vegetables stealing the show. I had a little left over rutabaga mash from last Monday so I decided to extend it with a potato. Rather than peel the potato, cut it up … Continue reading
Chicken dinner. 3/14/22
This homey chicken dinner reminds me of Thanksgiving, but easier. The rotisserie chicken I buy from Costco is not the whole bird but their vacuum packed offering of cooked breast meat. I divide the package in half (about 1 lb. … Continue reading
Rotisserie chicken with gravy and sheet pan sprouts and squash. 3/7/22
I am actually a little embarrassed to post this dinner since I took every shortcut imaginable to prepare it! The chicken comes from a pre-pulled pack of Costco rotisserie chicken. The gravy was made from a packet of McCormack’s powdered … Continue reading
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