Comments on: Three Meals (and One Caveman Snack) from One Whole Chicken

By: Renee

Renee — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 06:02:30 +0000

Our commissary will put leftover rotisserie chickens out the next day marked down50%. That’s $3.99 for us……maybe cheaper elsewhere since we are in AK. If I see them, I grab 2 or 3 depending on how many are already in the freezer. Then I do the same thing you did, but skip the cooking part. )

By: Daddy Paul

Daddy Paul — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:03:34 +0000

Love the pot pie.

By: jolyn

jolyn — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:45:10 +0000

Thank you so much! So it sounds like you cook the veggies in with the butter/flour mixture and broth before baking the whole thing in the oven? I know, I know…

By: laura

laura — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:52:56 +0000

Pot Pie doesn’t need canned soup – start with flour and butter (about equal parts), mix together and cook over medium heat for a few minutes, then add broth very very slowly, stirring (I use a whisk) constantly to make a creamy sauce – this is exactly how you would make gravy. (If you do it too fast, you’ll get lumps – but you can usually get them back out with a whisk.)

The sauce can get a bit thinner than you want it, because it thickens back up as it cooks. Then just add the chicken and vegetables (onions, celery, carrots, corn, peas, maybe even potatoes), salt and pepper, and any herbs you want (thyme is good, also parsley). This doesn’t take very long and will have much less sodium and strange unpronounceable stuff in it than the canned soup version! I normally saute the onions in the butter before adding flour – I would recommend it, but it might be trickier.

By: Stay at Home Mom CFO

Stay at Home Mom CFO — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:08:10 +0000

“Caveman Conner” is too funny:) I’m looking forward to embarrassing my kids when they get “too cool” as well. Like you, I have NEVER cooked a whole chicken. I may give it a try, it seems like it would be so much more economical than the boneless, skinless breasts I always buy.

By: Forest

Forest — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:19:04 +0000

That chicken did good!

I may try a vege version of the black eyes peas meal.

Thanks,
Forest.

By: Jen@925frugal

Jen@925frugal — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:33:32 +0000

Jolyn, I am so totally not trying to hijack your blog, but I did a post similar to this several weeks ago
I also managed to get three meals from one chicken (and would have gotten one more if I hadn’t gotten lazy on the last day and said “heck with it” and threw the rest of the chicken into the final meal.

If you want to check it out, the link is here http://www.925frugal.com/?p=292

I love to cook one big hunk o’ meat and eat on it for several days. I can’t wait to try your tetrazzini recipe!

By: jolyn

jolyn — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:47:48 +0000

Thank you so much! I’m definitely going to check that out.

By: Sara

Sara — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:39:36 +0000

that should be “soup”… can’t proofread this morning!

By: Sara

Sara — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:38:22 +0000

I usually do a whole chicken – chicken quesadilla – make sour rotation when I do a whole chicken.