1 Human, 1 Chicken Equals too Much Chicken.

A couple of nights ago, I made a roasted chicken. Then I was very optimistic that I'd take basically the same thing and put it in some containers and 'have lunches' for a while. Well, no not really, was a good idea and I've been there before, but it's just too much freakin' food. Keep in mind however, that I'm living by myself and not dating anyone so it's somewhat relative.

So I'm sick of my Middle-Eastern-ish Chicken. Remember I'm not a fan of microwaves and would rather cook up something else in order to have a seemingly fresh meal. I'm also really tired and don't want to go ape-shit but need something other than the same thing I've been eating for the past 2 days or so. So.

This post is about some ideas of how to re-purpose some meat you're not all that stoked on anymore. They basically center around a Mexi-Chinese theme but that's pretty much what I've got in the house tonight so brace yourself.

Hang on, more wine.

Ok. Let's get started shall we?

More wine.

Entree:
Chicken Fried Rice Out of Nowhere

Substitute Chicken for any left over pork or fowl. Beef doesn't work so well but if you get adventurous, give it a shot, why not.

Leftover Meat, Chopped up pretty fine
1 cup Indian Rice (Key here is to NOT use a starchy rice like Arborio. You want just a flavorful short, or hell long if you want, not too starchy rice.)
1 cup of "Who cares?" White Wine. "Who cares?" being "You don't."
.5 cup each of Frozen Peas and Frozen Corn
1 yellow onion
1 Tbsp butter
2 Eggs
Some sour-cream
Oil

Here we go.

Wait. More wine.

This is going to go quick because I'm tired and not in the mood, so pay attention.

Oil in pan medium-high heat. Rice when oil is hot. Fry the rice in the oil for a few minutes. Try not to brown it. Dump a bunch of your Waste White Wine in there, give it a little salt. Bring to boil, add water, cook rice the way you'd normally cook rice.

Chop the onion and start sautee-ing it. When it becomes very slightly translucent throw on the eggs, scrambled like a really messy omelette base. Let it cook like that for a bit so that you're looking at being able to flip it with a spatula. Obviously, if you finely chop the onions this is going to hold together better than if it's like half an onion. Well, you shouldn't be working with huge chunks but whatever, if the egg breaks up, good. You just want to start with big chucks of egg because it'll break up when you add it to the...

Rice!

Shit. you've got the rice about done by now, add a little butter, pepper, a little more salt (taste it first) and take it off the heat. Let the butter melt and stir the whole rice mix together. Return to the heat, add the the peas and corn let them defrost, melt cook the rice some more. Add the meat. Heat it all up. Plate as a pile on the plate, drop a load of sour cream on there.

Add a little to this by:

Taking and deep frying some corn tortilla chips in veggie oil and adding some beans to the above mix. You won't go wrong either with som hot peppers or Chinese chili oil.



So this is the easy route out.