Tuesday Night

[weaktwos]

Well, I'm trying to hold off something...still have post nasal drainage, but I'm not out of commission, yet. There is definitely the sinus sensation, however.

I made some shredded chicken this weekend. I am now a fan of trying to make various shredded meats to eat throughout the week. I simmered 4 chicken breasts in chicken stock and and a blend of cayenne pepper, serano chilis, garlic, onion, cumin, salt and pepper. I've used it for chicken tacos, chicken quesadilla, and now I took the rest and made an enchilada casserole out of it. 'Tis baking right now.

I could easily do this again, but more of a chicken marsala and I could put it over pasta or rice. Or a shredded bbq chicken.

I'm feeling lazy yet again. A new House is on tonight. I've got plenty to read, some drum practice to do--this year I'm going to dedicate myself to daily practice. No more slackin' off.

Well, not as much, anyway.

I hope everyone's evening is going well!

Comments

[darness.livejournal.com]

I'm still kind of new to the cooking world, but I like your idea of cooking a bunch of chicken ahead of time and then inserting it into different dishes. After you cook it and shred it and store it, do you need to do anything else to it to get it ready for say, chicken tacos (other than heating it up, of course)? Meaning, does it get cooked a second time in different seasonings or anything like that?

[weaktwos.livejournal.com]

You can do whatever you want to season it to taste. Add some more salsa, or hot sauce, or whatever you like. In my case, the chicken had a mild heat after it was prepared, and I just added cheese, lettuce and avocado to the chicken.

If you like really hot stuff, you may want to increase the level of spices. Sadly, I "winged it" with this recipe, and probably could have used more spices. I used a little strainer and dredged the chicken stock to recover all the spice bits like peppers and onions and garlic and kept it with the shredded chicken.

[darness.livejournal.com]

Thank you again! I'm now cooking three chicken breasts as we speak, hoping to shred two for tacos or various other dishes, and then chop one for chicken salad. I've been wondering what to do with these three leftover breasts in the freezer, and this sounds/has so far been, an easy way to tackle them. Plus I got the bright idea to add a dash of liquid smoke to the water, to up the taste ante a bit. We'll see how that goes!

[rpmiller.livejournal.com]

We had a shredded chicken dish just the other night. You would have to ask Jennifer for the specifics, but it isn't too bad and requires a crockpot.