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11-03-2008, 09:49 PM
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 |  Chicken stew
I got creative this weekend. Saturday night I went down to the freezer and came up with a few packages of chicken thighs I bought on sale earlier this year. Put them in the pressure cooker to thaw and cook them (50 minutes after the control jiggles, let cool normally for 5-10 minutes more), then popped them in the fridge with the broth (about a quart) in another container. After they'd cooled I stripped the meat off, stripped out the fat, skin, bones, and inedibles, cut up the meat and stuck it back in the fridge.
Sunday morning before church, I got out the crock pot. Threw in the chicken meat and broth (minus all the fat that had floated to the top and thickened for easy removal) and some cans of stuff, such as
1 small can green chilies
1 can corn with green and red peppers
1 can yellow hominy
1 can white hominy
1 can black beans
1 can dark red kidney beans
1 8-ounce jar of medium salsa (or mild, or not, as you choose)
1 pound baby carrots
1 onion, chunked
a dash of Tabasco
fresh ground pepper
I let that cook for about 8 hours, then thickened it with mashed potato flakes (works a whole lot better than using corn starch or flour!) into a thick stew. Peanut's nutritionist said today it's got lots of fiber, and it also is thick with protein. I put 8 containers of it in the freezer for quick use later. Note: this recipe fills a 6 quart crock pot.
Hint - to those looking at surgery soon - filling your freezer with stuff like this can really help when they let you start eating again. It doesn't take much to thaw this and then puree a portion of it. All the taste is still there, even if it has the consistency of mush!
Enjoy!
CT
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11-04-2008, 06:24 AM
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Okay leave out the chilies and tobasco and I'm there. Thanks for the new recipe, I just happen to have some left over chicken in the fridge and homade stock in the freezer. I think I know what will be for supper tomorrow night.
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11-04-2008, 10:32 AM
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 sounds yummy!
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11-04-2008, 05:02 PM
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Join Date: May 2008 Location: Just north of Iowa, not far from I-35. 2nd star on the right and straight on 'til morning!
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Weight Statistics December 13, 2007 (pre-op liquid diet started) Start Date:
December 27, 2007 Surgery Date:
5' 9"
Height:
290 lb Start Weight:
182 lb Current Weight:
184 lb Goal Weight:
108 lb Weight Loss:
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37.2413793103 % % Lost:
Originally - 12/08. Actually - 8/08. Goal Date:
Body Mass Index42.8208359588 BMI Start:
26.8737660155 BMI Current:
27.1690821256 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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Originally Posted by Spikey1341  Okay leave out the chilies and tobasco and I'm there. | Unlike baking, which involves chemical reactions and is pretty picky, cooking is infinitely flexible! You can leave things out, add other things, and in general customize any recipe to what's in the fridge. Sometimes when I have a few base ingredients, I do an online search for recipes and see what people are mixing together, then adapt them to make an original concoction. Turns out decent more often than not!
For this recipe, I was at the store and I looked at a recipe on the side of a cooked chicken breast can. They wouldn't recognize it, but it gave me a few ideas as a point of departure. Cooking is creativity with a purpose and a reward!
CT
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11-05-2008, 06:18 AM
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And here I thought you were going to say you were one "hot" dude and could handle it! 
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11-05-2008, 06:48 AM
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Join Date: May 2008 Location: Just north of Iowa, not far from I-35. 2nd star on the right and straight on 'til morning!
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Weight Statistics December 13, 2007 (pre-op liquid diet started) Start Date:
December 27, 2007 Surgery Date:
5' 9"
Height:
290 lb Start Weight:
182 lb Current Weight:
184 lb Goal Weight:
108 lb Weight Loss:
-2 lb Lb Left to Lose:
37.2413793103 % % Lost:
Originally - 12/08. Actually - 8/08. Goal Date:
Body Mass Index42.8208359588 BMI Start:
26.8737660155 BMI Current:
27.1690821256 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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My natural humility prevents me from making such a claim, but I'd hate to call you a liar!!
CT
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Dare to live your dream!!
If you want to be healthy for life, do for life the things that get you healthy!! Living healthy takes work. Dying fat is easy!! "That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the nature of the task has changed, but that our capacity to do has increased." - HJ Grant
"Do, or do not. There is no try!" - Yoda
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11-05-2008, 10:56 AM
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Thanks for the recipe CT. You are hilarious at your other posts. I love reading them. You always seem to keep me smiling.
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11-05-2008, 11:29 AM
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Originally Posted by Perfesser My natural humility prevents me from making such a claim, but I'd hate to call you a liar!!
CT | Well said! 
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11-10-2008, 09:04 AM
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sounds great!!!
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