Category: Chicken & Turkey

  • Sour Cream Chicken Enchiladas

    Sour Cream Chicken Enchiladas

    I’ve always loved chicken enchiladas with a green sauce at Mexican restaurants and was hoping this would be a good substitute! I found them lacking something, although my children enjoyed them. I think it was onions I was missing. But if I’d added them that might have meant the children did not like them, as they’re…

  • Crispy Chicken Chimichangas

    Crispy Chicken Chimichangas

    These are adapted from Family Feasts for $75 a Week: A Penny-wise Mom Shares Her Recipe for Cutting Hundreds from Your Monthly Food Bill. She had a recipe for Baked Chicken Enchiladas that looked great and started with raw chicken thighs and a recipe for Baked Chicken Chimichangas that used cooked chicken. I had some…

  • Chicken Parmesan: One of the Ultimate Leftovers

    Chicken Parmesan: One of the Ultimate Leftovers

    I’m just guessing but I think Chicken Parmesan came about when someone like me made too many chicken cutlets.  You can turn them into pretty good chicken sandwiches (why else would they sell frozen breaded chicken patties?) and even Buffalo Chicken Sandwiches. But I think the classic dish for leftover chicken cutlets has to be…

  • Tori Soboru – Gingery Spiced Chicken

    Tori Soboru – Gingery Spiced Chicken

    I promised my daughter I’d only do one new Asian dish this week and since I have more time to explore new things on weekends, tonight was it! I made this gingery spiced chicken from Washoku: Recipes from the Japanese Home Kitchen. Of course, she LOVED it! I made this then served it over rice…

  • Baked 5 Spice Chicken Legs

    Baked 5 Spice Chicken Legs

    This chicken was from HapaBento’s 5 Spice Baked Chicken. I don’t pack proper Bentos but love the idea and enjoy the generally quick and easy recipes  and the philosophy of eating multiple colors at each meal. (As an example of my not proper Bentos, today’s lunch was leftover cheese pizza, grape tomatoes, and sliced apple.…