Some days I just can’t. Today is a fish day. I’m hurting so bad I am medicating/staying distracting/using the hot tub – turned up to 11. If you don’t know what “turned up to 11″ means just move on.
So, dinner. Some days I just can’t. It’s a good thing Wadly likes having an excuse to eat hot dogs. He doesn’t get them often so he relishes those days. Usually I’m stuffing him with good stuff. Today is one of those days. This meal is so simple I can do it on a hurting day.
We have an elderly cat who is beyond being a fussy eater. She doesn’t like eating something more than two or three meals in a row and she eats tiny meals six+ times a day. She does not get dry food. She pukes it up with flare, usually on someone’s pillow or exactly where they’re going to step bare footed. Yeah, that’s our girl. So, I grind food for her often. When I do chicken . . . I buy 10lb bags of chicken hindquarters for less than $0.90 cents a pound . . . I put the skin, bones, etc. in a snack bag and stick those into a gallon ziplock in the fridge. When I get lots of them I pressure cook them with an extra thigh or three to add extra meat, seasoning with poultry seasoning, leeks and salt.
So I did that yesterday then separated the non-meat soft tissue bits and small bones for the dogs, chucked the bigger leg bones into the trash and put the chicken meat and broth into the fridge for . . . chicken something. I really don’t know what else to call it. Chicken cabbage stew? Maybe that.
This is SO fast and simple. Sautee in butter . . . thin leek slices (1/8″ or less), bell pepper slices (I used green and . . . orange? I think the not-green color Wadly got last is orange) and 1/4″ strips of cabbage (cut into 4” lengths). Once the veges are al dente add the chicken and broth. Simmer on low. I think the prep time on this (not the chicken pressure cook/separate bones bit) was less than ten minutes. Truly that fast. It took more time to take things out and put them away than it did to make it.
Truly, it was really good. I’ll do this again.