Fall usually brings with it a strong craving for comfort food. I made Roast Chicken with Gravy, and Garlic-Mashed Potatoes for dinner last night. Not only is Roast Chicken quintessentially comfort food, it is one of those awesome things that provides leftovers for several days. (Let's face it, two people can only eat so much chicken, and this was a choice 6-pounder.) The beauty of roasting a chicken is that you can do it with just a bit of salt, pepper, butter, and herbs, and you can STILL use the leftover meat to make dishes that have totally different flavors. Genius.
Of course, you spend a good twenty minutes or so picking all the meat off....and if you're doing that in our house, you have two dogs sitting patiently at your feet, periodically drooling, but mostly staring at you with those puppy dog eyes. "Just drop a morsel on the floor. We won't tell."
So I have a long list of things I am planning to make next week with all that chicken...
Chicken pot pie
Chicken quesadillas - long day at work, anyone?
Chicken fettuccine alfredo
Boneless chicken curry
Chicken noodle soup
Chicken sandwiches
Blah, blah, blah.
I did the same thing with pork last week. (Threw a boneless pork shoulder with some apples, cloves, and bay leaf into slow cooker.) Am I getting old? Efficient?
Spent all day today in Chicago on work. Tired, off to bed then.
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