What's for dinner tonight?

My version of Chicken Tarragon. Quick, easy and pretty good.
1 can cream of mushroom soup + i can of milk $1
1 can cream of chicken soup-no milk $1
2 tbl spoons Tarragon (I grow that) $.50
half cup chives cut @ 1/4 " $.25
1 clove garlic, minced (priceless)
simmer 1-1/2 lb. skinless-boneless chicken breast $3.00
save the stock
mix everything except the chicken and heat
shred the cooked chicken then add to the mixture

serve over rice or egg noodles, add sour cream to taste. $1.00
Total cost; about $7.00
feeds 4 adults with generous portions
or 2 adults plus 2 lunches.

 

Roasted Chicken for Two

Ingredients:
1 whole chicken, about 3.5 pounds, rinsed and patted dry.
1 Tablespoon dried Basil.
1 teaspoon olive oil
1 medium yellow onion. Sliced into thick rings and separated.
2 medium sized russet potatoes.

Directions:
In a small bowl, blend basil and oil with a fork.
From the back of the chicken, work your fingers into the space between the skin and the flesh. Now, start to work in the oil and basil mixture as far forward as you can without tearing the skin coating everything. Go down the sides of the breasts and around to the legs if you can. With the leftover oil mixture, coat the outside liberally.
Next, in a large roasting pan, place the onions rings in first and set the prepped bird on top, breast side up. Pour in a cup of tap water and bake, uncovered for about 90-100 minutes, at 325 degrees.

When you have 1 hour left, rinse off the potatoes, pierce the skins with a fork, and place them directly on the rack beside the roasting pan.

Enjoy!

P.S. use the leftovers for homemade chicken soup.

 

We went simple tonight.

Pork steak baked in cream of mushroom and roasted garlic soup, with parmesan noodles.

 

Crumbed lamb cutlets and scones with jam.

 

Time to clean out the fridge, so it will be left-overs tonight.

 

I'm tellin' ya...if it really looks like the system is about to fail and it's gonna be 'every man for himself...dog eat dog, Thunderdome'...I'm gonna be sure I have cases of 'Cream of Mushroom' soup on hand....I could probably survive on road kill and brown weeds if I could baste them in Cream of Mushroom soup...

 

No thanks, will have dinner with Mak instead.

Lasagne here, and its easy. Leftover from the freezer. I never learned to make a small lasagne, so we always end up freezing portions.

 

That's good but I prefer golden mushroom soup

 

Then you hoard the Golden Mushroom Soup...and I'll hoard the 'Cream of'. More fer you and more fer me. (Cream of Chicken comes in handy too, just not AS versatile.)

 

you got that right

 

Yes, it's quite awesome.

I sometimes add a bit of mustard to the mix (about 1tlbs). It actually goes well with the cream of mushroom soup and pork.

 

Funny you mentioned that...I had a couple of pork chops tonight. I brown the chops than add some water to make a thin gravy..Then add the mushroom soup with garlic salt and a bit-o-rosemary and fresh parsley.. had it with brown rice and lima beans.

Two people really can eat very well on about $50-60 a week, if they cook from scratch instead of all those chemically infused cans-o-junk. (Cream of Mushroom Soup excepted) Next time I'll try it with the dried mustard. Or do you use prepared mustard..if so, what kind?

 

That sounds good. I rarely get to have lima beans, my girlfriend hates them... along with about a million other things.

That's true, especially when I'm in command of the shopping list!

I use bottled mustard, that's how my grandmother use to do it. It doesn't seem to matter what brand, but then again I'm not huge into mustard. Funny though, no matter what I try I can never make baked pork chops that are as awesome as my grandmother made.

 

On the menu tonight:

BBQ pork ribs, seasoned and cooked, then coated with a thin layer of K.C. Masterpiece dilluted with Sam Adam's Boston Lager, and then cooked a little further. Green beans slow cooked with sauteed/seasoned bacon, onions, and minced garlic. "Black Bean Fiesta Style" Bush's baked beans.

I'll regret it later... but whatever!

 

Sounds like you're going to have more gas than the State of Oklahoma!

 

If only he could harness that gas. lol

 

You have a very lavatorial humour, B. I've noticed this about you.

How and ever, playing into that...we went out on Friday night to a heavy metal gig up in the city. This was a mistake as metal people are too scary and hairy for me, but my son's band were headlining and we work up there so we thought we ought to turn up. I was out for lunch earlier with my friends, but we ended up in the canteen and had something horrible with chips. At night, we were going to eat in the heavy metal pub, but it turned out to be too "earthy" for me and I said good luck to my son and legged it (which made him very happy anyway, as he is too tough/cool to have a Mum on site even if he is actually a big old softie who went out yesterday to buy a Mother's day gift).

So we came down the road and ate here:

http://www.thesquaregreenock.co.uk/gallery

Lovely old building and the food was good, but I was up all night with a dodgy stomach. I had a chicken in pepper sauce wrap thing. I'm sure it was nothing to do with the large glass of merlot they served, or the other 2 fruity reds that went down the hatch when we got home.

 

Just simple curd rice

 

it's corned beef day here in the states.

 

satay chicken and home grown mangos with a decent quality merlot.

 

I sometimes get a crook guts if I eat spicy food and red wine, seem to be ok if I stick to the white.

 

Ok, that's it, I'll be going to Aussie land for dinner.

 

Lol, regarding the mangos. We have about 8 trees, in fruiting season which is about now till the end of April its amazing how many friends we havent seen all year stop by just to "say hello".

 

Fresh picked fruit, eggs right from the hen's behind, veggies fresh from the garden, homemade bread, yams, yoghurt...nothing compares, esp the manipulated stuff from the grocery stores.

 

Absolutely, totally agree. we grow tomatoes, avocadoes, guavas, cucumbers ,beans, chillies, sweet potatoes, shallots and whatever else pops up. All of which taste so much better than anything from the supermarket. Well, I eat it and my wife does most of the growing.