Yard Bird Tetrazzini

Not in my recollection have I ever made Chicken Tetrazzini. Still on the kick of using up pantry staples, only sour cream and cream of mushroom sauce was purchased as the chicken was farm raised free range birds.

Modifications Made:
Yard bird was boiled in heavily seasoned with onion, garlic, salt and pepper until falling off bone. Chicken was removed and stock reduced. Recipe was halved, regular noodles replaced linguine, cream of chicken was omitted due to halved stated and heavily seasoned chicken broth. Salt was omitted as chicken stock and cream of mushroom soups were plenty salty. Chicken, soup, broth, and other ingredients were allowed to cook the entire time the pasta cooked to allow flavors to meld together and hopefully help tenderize the yard bird. Once nice and creamy, the noodles and cheese were added and mixed until smooth. Baking in a oven was omitted.

Scaled for Likability: Good

Not really a cream of anything soup fan, however, there were enough ingredients to mellow out the soup flavor. Allowing the chicken and soups, etc to cook and meld together really helped with this lack of soup flavoring. The sour cream was the golden ticket to the meal. The tang offset the soup, added a thickener instead of using flour, and made the stock a nice creamy texture to fully cover the noodles.

This dish would be perfect for any leftover chicken meat: boiled, baked, rotisserie, bbq, fried. It came together in less than 45 minutes and paired well with green beans from the garden.

Papas a La Mexicana (Ranchera)

It is a crying shame that there are six hens and not a egg in sight. What am I supposed to do with homemade ranchero sauce? Thankfully with a few quick searches of the internet a recipe from my hometown newspaper was discovered: Papas Ranchera . Not once in the thirty years I lived in my hometown did I ever eat at a local food joint serving papas rancheras. No time like the present to remedy this cultural dish. Because this recipe is hidden behind a paywall (grrr...) I have included it here for you: Servings: 4-6 Ingredients: 1 pound potatoes, diced 1/4 cup vegetable oil 1/2 large onion 1 1/2 medium tomatoes 3 jalapenos 1/8 teaspoon garlic powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup juice from canned tomatoes Instructions: Fry potatoes in vegetable oil until lightly browned (about 4-6 minutes). Saute onions, tomatoes, jalapenos until soft. Add garlic powder and salt. Add tomato juice until vegetables are covered (may need to add water). Bring to a boil and then add po...

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 almos...

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 ...

Eating Waffles

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