dwight yoakum chicken fries

 Filed under: Chicken, Everything Else — beerorkid @ Jun 23rd, 2008


 Lemon garlic chicken with a basil cream sauce shell pasta

 Filed under: Chicken, Pasta — beerorkid @ Jun 4th, 2008

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So after Theresa got back we kinda decided to tweak our meals towards being slightly healthier. We are working in salads, more veg, and cutting the portions of the rich foods we so love. We still get the good stuff which we can prepare once and stretch for 3 to 4 meals.

Tonight we hit the store for just a few meals and other assorted items. We wanted a quick meal and thought we would try lemon garlic chicken again. Last time (did not blog about it) we let it sit in the bag marinating overnight. Huge mistake. It was so sour you could hardly eat it. We figured 15 to 30 minutes would do it for us. WRONG. It was still too much. Next time we attempt this, if ever again, we will just put the lemon juice in the pan with the chicken.


 chicken and chillies came out awesome

 Filed under: Chicken, Sauce — beerorkid @ May 10th, 2008

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Nailed this first attempt. We were both pleasantly surprised.
Chicken and chillies was a special every now and then at Crane River. From what we could remember it was a creamy sauce with chillies and onions in it over some sort of chicken on top of rice. We took that idea and tried to work it. I asked about the chillies on the forum. Got some great answers, but an email to the guy who prob invented the dish sealed the deal. “canned, diced green chillies” That was all I got out of him, but it made the difference.


 dutch oven roasted chicken

 Filed under: Chicken — beerorkid @ May 10th, 2008

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We got this dutch oven and wanna figure out how to use it. We picked out 3 easy meals we think we can adapt to work in the dutch oven. Chicken was first. The plan was to use some veg to make a nice base for the chicken. Even used 1/4 of an onion. I figured a slow cook would rule, but I forgot that chicken only has to be to temp and slow cooking was not really gonna do much. Well by the time I pulled the chicken out the wings fell off from gravity. I put a bit of wine and chicken broth in the pot before it started cooking. The liquid made a gravy which spoiled us. It was simply amazing.


 creamy chicken pancetta pasta

 Filed under: Chicken, Pasta, Sauce — beerorkid @ May 10th, 2008

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you know that show with the playboy girls next door. They are in Italy eating there and the gangster one says “its good, but it is not Olive Garden.” Well that would explain this meal. Olive Garden might be a crappy chain, but dam they make some really awesome pasta dishes. I usually get a chicken pasta with a creamy sauce and other crap in it. Pretty much every pasta dish I make is trying to be like them. I am not ashamed to admit it. But it never comes even close :(

So this attempt pretty much was pulled from nowhere. I was looking through recipes from Elise and saw this one. I figured I could mess with it a bit and get something awesome out of it. My plan was use the pancetta, some lightly dredged chicken, garlic, chicken stock, a touch of wine, and some medium cream to make a sauce to go over pasta. Long story short there was just not enough flavor. It was a thick creamy goop that was meh…. I guess with some other ingredients mixed in I could of kicked it up, but I doubt I will try again.


 Free form lasagna

 Filed under: Chicken, Pasta — beerorkid @ May 10th, 2008

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Saw an article in the LJS talking about this. Theresa thought it would be cool to try it with my basil, sundried tomato, garlic cheese sauce, I agreed. And being a make your own I was able to put the stuff I wanted on mine. (mushrooms, cream cheese, and spinach)


 chicken stew

 Filed under: Chicken — beerorkid @ May 10th, 2008

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We love roasted chicken for dinner, but figuring out what to do with the leavings is always an issue. Chicken noodle soup, taquitos, and chicken tacos are good, but lately I end up making a really rich stock and freeze it to satisfy Theresa’s gravy addiction. I had the idea of making chicken pot pies and after running it past Theresa we came up with a chicken stew that would be CPP without the PP (he he pee pee). Asked for some advice on the SCS message board and I must say it turned out really good.


 chicken goop

 Filed under: Chicken, Sauce — beerorkid @ May 10th, 2008

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Too simple but figured I would share. Chicken goop is on its third incarnation. As if I can claim to have carnated chicken nuggets, gravy, and mushed taters. We used to make it with rice and diff sauces.


 ham, cheese, chicken roll with basil cheese cream sauce

 Filed under: Chicken — beerorkid @ May 10th, 2008

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Been wanting to make a chicken cordeon bleu sort of thing. Theresa was kinda skeptical so I tried to make it a bit more like something she would want. Figured I would skip the breading and make my usual basil, garlic, cheese sauce on some noodles and have the rolled chicken as the meat.

Headed to Hy-Vee to pick up a couple chicken breasts. Only needed two so I just hit the deli. $5.99 for two breasts I just figured it was the fancy HV ripping me off. Picked up some provolone and prosciutto to make the chix rolls.

Opened up the chix breasts and was blown away buy how huge they were. I knew two regular ones might be too much, but these were so huge I found out just one would be too much. This was the Dolly Parton of chickens.


 tomato cream pasta with blackened chicken

 Filed under: Chicken, Pasta — beerorkid @ May 10th, 2008

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From the Pioneer Woman Cooks comes the inspiration for this dish. Actually she is why I started doing these pic filled food posts.

We replaced the shrimp for blackened chicken. No wine, onions, or chix broth. It came out a bit thick. I boiled down the sauce a bit too much, and freaked and added about 1/2 tbls of flour. Thing is it ruled and can be adapted easily. Imagine putting it in bowls and baking it with some cheese.

So to keep the chicken pretty bare and light, yet still pack a punch I blackened it a bit. Smash the breasts even, iron skillet up med high. Chix breasts sprinkled with paprika, kosher salt, pepper, cayenne, a touch of garlic, and a dash of misty’s seasoning. I just have a shaker with this pre mixed for just such a thing. No oil needed. The cast iron does it all. Must have some ventilation. Burning cayenne will choke ya good.