Month: May 2009

This week was incredibly busy, so boiling chicken saved me from dinnertime meltdown. Using advice from a friend, I added honey, salt and pepper to the water and went ahead and boiled it for over an hour. If you have this kind of time frame, the meat will literally fall off the bone.

Here’s what we did to get three nights of dinner out of the tender meat, in a matter of minutes:

• Dinner #1 – Burritos with shredded chicken
• Dinner #2 – Chicken with mashed potatoes (from the microwave)
• Dinner #3 – Chicken with leftover mashed potatoes and sauteed mushrooms

If you need to save time (or your sanity), boil a whole chicken at the beginning of the week, then use your imagination with the leftovers. The microwave will be your friend!

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Lately I’ve been too busy to cook, which is usually something I look forward to at the end of a long day. The creative – often meditative – process of preparing a meal is how I wind down. But time is of the essence in the kitchen, which leaves me somewhat uninspired as of late.

Fortunately, my muse is a mini accordion folder of recipes ripped (literally!) from the pages of Everyday Food and divided into themes and categories. I’ve been a subscriber for 4 years or so and the simple concepts and mouthwatering visuals are easy to follow, and produce consistently tasteful, crowd-pleasing results. Plus a lot of times the ingredients are already in your cupboard! I’ve collected quite a stash over the years, which is added to each month when a new issue arrives.

Check out Everyday Food for recipe inspiration, or come raid my stash!

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