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Country Captain Chicken Recipe

I decided to try making a half batch of this using leg quarters cut in half, and it turned out pretty good. (We didn’t really need 12 pieces worth of chicken for 2 people, with the full recipe. Or did we? 🤔)

My mom used to make a baked version, but just simmering the browned chicken pieces in the sauce is easier and avoids dirtying up another dish. Pretty similar results to what I remembered, too, though it’s probably been at least 20 years since I last had hers.

I would–and did–simmer the dish longer than this suggests. Got that started simmering, and put on the rice. Let it go for around 45 minutes, covered, with the occasional stir and flipping the chicken over after about 30 minutes. (An hour or more total wouldn’t hurt, for that matter.) Better sauce and very tender meat with the longer simmering, and absolutely no need to test the chicken for doneness with a thermometer that way.

Not sure Mr. C was nearly as enthused with another of my Nostalgia Specials, but I think it’s a make again anyway 😊

Country Captain Chicken Recipe

Tonight’s badly lit delight: some not-quite-ramen with rice noodles to go with leftover broth and toppings from last night.

That turned out good enough that I don’t mind having more, eating on my own today. Mr. C seemed to agree, since it didn’t take him very long to slurp down two big bowls last night 😊 That’s somewhat unusual with soups around here.

(So now both the cats have been drawn into the kitchen by the chicken smell, and are hanging around my ankles…)

its-going-down:

meckamecha:

daily-bad-jokes:

daily-bad-jokes:

occasionally the universe orders one of its many snipers to fire a warning shot at me. not to cause any (physical) harm, mind you. they’re just reminders that the universe hates me and could snuff out my puny little life anytime it wishes.

today that warning shot came in the form of my microwave burrito being completely empty. no filling. just tortilla.

how can you look at this and still believe the world is kind and just

It has filling. The filling is more tortilla

Lovely.

Some surprise volunteer potatoes came up in one of the sack planters out there, from where I stuck in a few sprouty potatoes I think 2 years ago? Because why not.

They didn’t do anything then, and I thought that was the end of it. But, up sprouted some this year. I was kind of glad to see them, especially since I haven’t been able to do basically any gardening.

And the plants were doing pretty well. Until, AFAICT, those rats that have been hanging around outside decided to go digging for some spuddy snacks! 🐀🐀🐀🙃

Best I can figure, at least. Not much of a loss, but it still aggravated me finding that.

(Getting our trash inaccessible obviously hasn’t made them move along yet. Pretty sure they’re just going upstairs and raiding the neighbors’ now, since I can hear them up on the deck there at night. No clue where they’re sheltering, either, but hey. Those neighbors already don’t much like us, and I don’t want to say anything about it and probably get them blaming Those Foreign Weirdos for the incursions.)