Category Archives: Poultry

Chicken enchiladas, guacamole, chips. 9/16/23

Whether it is enchiladas, tacos, guacamole, or chili, everyone in our family loves Mexican/Southwest food. In fact we are planning on having an all-North American Thanksgiving this year featuring a taco bar. Because we will be out of town in … Continue reading

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Buffalo chicken wings and salad. 9/15/23

Tonight we took an easy route to dinner. The wings were Foster Farms Take-Out Buffalo Chicken Wings and the salad was Taylor Farms Steakhouse Wedge. John and I both love Buffalo chicken wings. He likes the drumettes and I like … Continue reading

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Chicken piccata with rice and broccoli. 9/6/23

Today we went to Costco and picked up one of their rotisserie chickens. Once home, I dismantled the chicken saving one breast for tonight’s dinner, shredding the other breast for enchiladas next week, putting the legs and thighs aside for … Continue reading

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Breakfast for Dinner! 9/3/23

It is hard to keep coming up with different things to do with eggs every Sunday. Sometimes I just have to go back to the basics. Tonight’s BFD is simply soft scrambled eggs. The secret to not getting a dried … Continue reading

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Lentils with turkey sausage. 8/28/23

Just when I was saying we were in for at least another 4 weeks of summer we threw in one of our more winters dishes into the lineup! I have to admit it was a nice change from our usual … Continue reading

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Chicken enchiladas with southwest salad 8/24/23

John and I made this casserole of enchiladas and baked them before 9 AM. What a pleasure to have this completely made before the hot weather invaded the kitchen! All I had to do at dinner time was to make … Continue reading

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Turkey sausage, sauerkraut, and black beans. 8/5/23

We were supposed to be having tofu bowls tonight but our avocado did not ripen fast enough. So I cast about the kitchen trying to devise a new dinner plan when John suggested turkey sausage. I had bought a couple … Continue reading

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Chicken Chili with Salsa Verde

Here’s a super easy and very tasty chicken chili that John and I invented as we cooked last night. We still had some of our rotisserie chicken from Costco left over so I chopped up a breast and a thigh … Continue reading

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Chicken piccata with broccoli and rice mix 7/27/23

We are using up the remainder of our Costco rotisserie chicken for our chicken piccata. With this dinner we will have made two dinners, two lunches, and more than a quart of chicken stock from one chicken! Since the chicken … Continue reading

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Southwest salad with chicken 7/25/23

Here is another good idea for hot nights, southwest salad with chicken. We bought a Costco rotisserie chicken on Monday. I took it apart with the idea of legs and thighs for John’s lunches, one breast for the salad, the … Continue reading

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