Chicken Potato Ranch Jerky

With a chicken the size of turkey, two 9x12 chicken casseroles were made. Last night Creamy Corn Poblano Chicken Cassilada, tonight Loaded Potato Ranch Chicken.

Modifications Made:
Using the leftover chicken stock from yesterday, three large Russet potatoes were diced, cooked until almost fork tender, and set aside. Chicken stock cooked potatoes will add a deep layer of flavor to this simple dish.

Ranch Dressing: Not having nor not wanting to purchase ranch dressing for a quarter cup usage, I made my own modified version using Ranch Seasoning instructions.

To a large bowl, half stick of melted butter, one cup of cool chicken broth, four ounces of sour cream, and ranch dressing seasonings were whisked together. Cooked potatoes and diced chicken was added and entire bowl was poured into greased 9x12 casserole pan. Again, since everything was precooked, casserole was cooked until just bubbly.

Scaled for Likability: No, Thank You
What a bust. The dish was dry and tasteless. Not one to use cream of anything, this dish could have benefited from a cream of mushroom, a can of rotel, or some combination of both. Ranch dressing was undetectable, the chicken tough because the casserole was dry, and the potatoes bland. Can't image what the followed as written results would have been as my version had added butter and stock, stock cooked potatoes not plain oven baked potatoes, and pre-cooked chicken instead of raw.

Good thing there was cookies.

Better Than Campbell's Old Fashion Vegetable Soup

Went to the store with the hopes of gathering fresh produce for soup. With more than 45 people in line for two packages of any meat product and the produce section containing only avocado, orange, and most randomly, strawberries, I settled upon canned soup. Well not canned soup since that section was still void of food, too. Instead soup made from canned goods as the canned vegetable section had been mostly restocked. Soups like this 15 Minute Vegetable Soup are ideal in dire food situations such as current times. Modifications Made: Plain petite diced tomatoes omitted, frozen carrots instead of canned, green beans and corn undrained, peas omitted (gross, nasty little pods), one cup celery, three cups diced potatoes, one can tomato sauce, two beef and two pollo de tomate bouillon cubes, six cups water. Once onions were softened, carrots/celery/potatoes/juice of green beans and corn, sauce, bouillon cubes, water were added and allowed to simmer until carrots almost tender. Green be

Papas a La Mexicana (Ranchera)

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Sour Cream & Chive Scalloped Potatoes

Can't believe the Month of the Potato is over. There are so many more potato recipes saved. Guess I will have to work them into another month. Last week's scalloped potatoes were one of the best new recipes during the month of potatoes. With today being the last day in the Month of Potatoes, I decided to go out with a bang by cooking another batch of scalloped potatoes but this time sour cream and chive. The Best Scalloped Potatoes , or so they said. Modifications Made: Recipe was reduced by half. Mayo was omitted and one entire package of chives were chopped and added to sauce before pouring onto layers. Scaled for Likability: Good Betty Crocker Sour Cream and Chive Box Scalloped Potatoes were the standard for this recipe. These were a family favorite for years but have long since been discounted. Bummer. Trying to replicate this seemed easy enough. Alas, it was not. These had a nice texture but were too oily from the cheese and did not contain enough onion, garlic,

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