Category: Recipes

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Green Chicken Stew

I posted this a few years ago, but since it’s soup and stew weather, and since I just put a batch of this in the slow-cooker (well, actually in the Wolfgang Puck rice cooker, but that’s another story), I thought I’d repost it.

This is a really, really simple recipe with a Southwestern flair. Since it’s mostly just “open cans, dump” it’s also quite fast to assemble. The only “cooking” required is to pre-cook some chicken.

Cook–any old way that’s easy or comfy for you–a chicken, or just cook 5-6 chicken thighs. White meat’s not as juicy and tasty, so I major in dark meat for this, but you can pick and choose for your own taste. I generally skin the chicken before cooking, but whatever suits you. Cooking the day before and store the chicken in the fridge–or even a week and freeze–then cool and de-bone the chicken.

Just assemble the ingredients listed in any order you want in a slow cooker:

Chicken, as above
1-28oz (or two 15oz) can of green enchilada sauce
2-4oz cans chopped green chiles
2-15oz cans white hominey
1-15oz can of cannellini beans
1-4oz can chopped mushrooms
1-chopped onion, pre-“sautéed” (the quotation marks are cos I “sautée” onions for such as this by placing them in a microwave safe container with a lil olive oil and nuke ’em for a minute or so. YMMV. 2 mins at half power works best in my microwave.)
about 2C water

You can feel free to add some “sautéed” minced garlic–do the garlic with the onions so as not to overcook the garlic–some freshly ground black pepper and even some cumin to taste. I do. Heck, I’ve also been known to add some Rotel’s Diced Tomato & Green Chilies for a lil added taste touch. But not the tomato and habaneros Rotel also sells. (Too much heat for my Wonder Woman.)

rotel

Crock pot as normally. Eat with (white, if you have ’em) corn chips, corn bread, lightly toasted corn tortillas, or whatever suits your fancy.

A couple of small notes: while I do rinse the cannelini beans, I do not rinse the hominy. While most folks do rinse the hominy, I’ve not found it adds any benefit to do so. 😉

This is a chicken “white bread” version of a pork posole recipe. If you prefer, you can pre-cook some pork chops, pork shoulder or whatever, and substitute that for the chicken. It’s just as good but with a slightly different flavor. 😉

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Eclectic Food

Mixed bag for dinner tonight:

Chicken fried “steak” (breaded cubed beef) w/white gravy*
Stewed okra (okra, tomatoes, onion, green pepper)**
Julienned potatoes in cheddar cheese sauce***

A different combo, but one I can eat with gusto. “Down home” comfort foods in a slightly off-standard menu combo. I may have to zap some frozen peas for the others who’ll be here, though, since stewed okra’s an acquired taste that Son&Heir and my Wonder Woman have, urm, avoided acquiring. I think it’s the slimey texture more than anything else, since I can feed ’em fried okra just fine. 🙂 But as for me? Yum!

(I’m told that savages “up North” somewhere don’t eat okra at all but feed it as forage to their livestock. *shudder* What utter barbarians! 🙂 )

*white gravy: make a roue with a little of whatever oil or grease you fred the CFS in and some white flour. Slowly add a lil milk at a time and heat to a nice bubble, then back off to a very, very slow simmer. Too big a flour-to-milk ratio will equal a too thick gravy, obviously, so it’s a learning process. What? Amounts? You gotta be kidding! Or, just follow Alton Brown’s recipe at the link. I think it’s both too much trouble and not quite “right” but tastes differ.

**a coupla cups of okra, washed and cut into pieces no larger than 2″; one half to one coarsely chopped yellow onion; one coarsely chopped bell pepper; a large can of whole tomatoes; salt & pepper to taste. Sautee the onions and bell pepper until the onions are clarified but not browned, then add everything else, bring to a boil and back off to s simmer. about 30 minutes oughta do it.

Julienned cheesy potatoes: do this but leave out the ham. It’s not quite what I do, but it’ll taste close and be good.

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Green Pork Stew

N.B. This is a variation on a recipe whose name shall go unmentioned, because I’m pissed off at Mexico (and Mexican nationals) in general for encouraging and actively aiding an invasion of this country, so, as much as is possible, I’m deleting my knowledge and use of Spanish in general and any remotely positive Mexican references in particular from my vocabulary.

Ingredients:

28oz can of green sauce (avoiding the “e” word) or an equal amount of pureed green chiles.
8oz can of green chiles
1.5 pound pork roast, fully cooked and cubed
1 chopped yellow onion
16oz (or thereabouts) can of cannelini beans, rinsed and drained
16oz (or thereabouts) can of either white hominey or plain white corn–with liquid
1/2 cup rice
1 cup water

Prep:

Sautee the onions and brown the cubed, pre-cooked pork roast. Add everything to a slow cooker and let it come together for a while; use your best judgement. Eat with gusto. (Make your own gusto to taste.)

Next time, I plan on making this with beer substituted for the liquids–the plain water and water from the corn or hominey cans. A nice light ale to start, I think, though the recipe as is goes well with a medium amber ale with just a touch of hopsiness.

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“Enstupiated” Americans

h.t. to Hugh, again (Man! Get yourself a blog! Tho, admittedly, I appreciate your tips, especially recently wile I’ve been a bit swamped 🙂

Fred Reed again, this time in almost perfect complement to John Stossel’s “Stupid” schools program on 20/20 last Friday:


“I’m going to start a rickshaw factory. It’s so our kids will have a way to make a living, now that America is pulling out of the First World. Maybe I’ll put an iPod socket on the poles or a little tiny television, made in Japan. That way our puzzled offspring won’t inadvertently start thinking. Tradition provides an anchor in the circumambient chaos.

See, what’s going to happen is, all the design work and programming are going to Mumbai, except the part that already has. Manufacturing is pretty much in China already, Mexicans do all the scutwork, and blacks work for the government or not at all, or both at once. That leaves whites as midlevel bureaucrats supervising each other. Thing is, whites are getting so they can’t read either, so they’ll need rickshaws to pull, in case the Chinese engineers want to go somewhere.

It’s over, I tell you. The United Steak has turned into a mess of pale-faced bushmen mumbling in pidgin English, the young anyway, with Orientals as missionaries trying to civilize us. Yes, friends and neighbors! Ain’t it exciting? All the professors in America of anything practical are already Chinese or Indian. Or getting that way fast.”

Read the rest. (Surely no regular reader of this blog is a part of the nearly 40% 60% of adult Americans who are subliterate… )

Reading America the riot act at Conservative Cat (get that sheepskin, Ferdy! 🙂 and TMH’s Bacon Bits.

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El queso es viejo y completo del molde. ¿Donde esta el baño?

If you have to ask…

Apologies to Spanish-speakers who may stumble onto this post. I haven’t been around spoken Spanish on a daily basis for years, and I never had much call to read Spanish, so the post title may be a bit odd.

OK, it’s a bit odd even in English.

Check DL’s post at TMH’s Bacon Bits that indirectly inspired this random neuron sputter… heh (Sorry DL. But it just struck me as tragicomic, and that almost always brings out the right-angle random thought. 🙂

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2005 TWC in review

Here it is: the post you’ve all been waiting for. Right.

🙂

A few third world county posts from 2005. Not necessarily “The best of TWC” but certainly representative of the “most unrecognized posts of TWC 2005” :-). Warts and all: typos, tortured syntax, whatever.

January 2005: The LLMB and MMPA’s psychotic break with reality

Witness this fair paraphrase of the progression of positions taken by the LLMB and MMPA leading up to and continuing through and beyond the [Iraq] election:

1.) The U.S. is embarking on empire and will not allow self-government by the Iraqis.
(Demonstrably false)
2.) The promised elections are not/will not be possible. (Demonstrably false)
3.) The promised election will not take place on time.(Demonstrably false)
4.) The elections will be a failure, a bloodbath. (Demonstrably false)
5.) The election will be illegitimate (because of non-participation). (Demonstrably false)

February 2005: ::YAWN:: More dog bites man non-news

Belaboring the obvious: Bob Dylan flogs a dead horse…

(Wherein your humble-ha!-author emulates J.E.P. “It’s a daybook.” It’s not well organized or well-edited. It’s just stuff that occurs to me to jot down. Notes, to myself as much as anything else.)

Curmudgeon Mode: Tried to take an online musical survey-discovered I’m an antediluvian…

Yeh. Noah still owes me two sheep and a dove…


Recommended Reading between now and the 2006 elections

People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil

OK, I can’t resist two from March: Men Without Chests

And: St David’s Day 😉

April 2005: Musical Teleology and Musical Survey–not so very. The first offers a perspective on a couple of recent songs and the second…

May 2005: A Conspiracy of Dunces.

A (short) litany of woes

Here’s a very short list of things that seem to be aimed at destroying the American experiment in liberty.

And Javascript Cookiesâ„¢! and Unconscious Parenthood (my bid for a “Blogmothers Day” observance).

June 2005: News from the Islamic jihad and Preparing for ’06

(Not that I hold out much hope for the denizens of Demoncrappic Underpants, Moooove-on.orgy, the Mass Media Podpeople'[s Army, the Loony Left Moonbat Brigade, Republican’t Congresscritters and their ilk, etc.)

And In your dreams: Headlines from 2006

July 2005: Dysfunctional America

I let my mixmaster loose on the current scene and here’s what resulted…

Yes, there is a culltural divide in these United States. And here are a few of the dividing points…

August 2005: Open Borders Kill

“Open Borders”-the words have a ring of liberty, equality, fraternity… but please remember where the last great movement with that catchphrase ended up…

[Throw some sand in various moonbat gears, eh?]

So, Alito’s next. The big question: will Republican’t Senators do a pants check and find-to everyone’s amazement-the stones to carry the nomination through?

Follow the Rabbit Trail (in which my rambling rant becomes more than just rthe usual self-referential metacommentary-see the punchline in comments to that post: there are none :-).

September 2005: Listen with your heart, A lil experiment–first Castpoint trial. And, The real threat.

October 2005: Quick! Spread the ‘Karl Rove IS Machiavelli’ meme…

Fred on the “poverty excuse”

November 2005: Drive-by post

Yeh, walking through when the TV’s babbling one of those touchy-feely “PSAs” that are totally cracked, I hear:

“Friends always make you laugh.”

Riiiigggghhht.

“Hey, dude, your grandma died? That’s like, so totally hilarious, man!”

If this doesn’t move you… then you need a heart and soul transplant…

December 2005: You’re here, browse on your own. I have a cute lil troll commenting on one post. You might find him amusing. I don’t think he’s trainable, but so far he’s not made any serious potty messes. Look around a bit, if you want. Or not.

🙂

Up in lights at Basil’s Blog, Bloggin’ Outloud.

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After Christmas Sale!

That’s right, guys n dolls, I’m runnin’ a special after-Christmas sale here at TWC: one-a those link-fer-link deals *wink-wink*.

Avoid the crowds at Wally World, the mall or wherever customer service is going ape today and link here in a post of your own, then drop a teebee off for me to have an easy reference.

Don’t have the foggiest what I’m talking about? Drop me a comment and I’ll clarify.

Later today, Guard the Borders. Just a foretaste from Vdare.com

“Over the past decade, in many cases from a criminal justice standpoint [officials] have stepped back and said, ‘Hey, we’re just not going to look at this.'” (Immigrant crime, that is.) “It’s a sign of the times; the feeling, you know, that everybody makes mistakes [like crossing the border illegally?], and there’s an unwillingness to apply more law enforcement.” In a further reflection of current thinking, Ward added, “‘Let’s not cause any problems for our neighbors (and trading partners)–particularly Mexico.'”

Read the rest there.

Glommed myself some free adverts at Is It Just Me? and NIF. Get some of your own here.

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Hot n Cold

A couple of recipes I’ve been meaning to post for a while, now

First, my mother’s Salsa recipe that my dad scanned and sent me. My comments, based on my recollection of her cooking habits in “[ ]”

  • 3C diced tomatoes [whatever’s ripe and available]
  • 3/4 C onion [coarsely chopped]
  • 1.5 tsp salt
  • 1.5 C [white] vinegar
  • 1—3 C [chopped] jalapeños (to taste)
  • 3 cloves minced garlic

Bring to boil, simmer 5 minutes, pack in hot [sterilized in boiling water bath] jars, cover with lids and process in hot water bath for 30 minutes. Remove, cool and store.

Now, for the cold stuff.
Javascript Cookie™ Ice Cream Sandwiches

Make a batch of LARGE Javascript Cookies™. (How large? Experiment. Have a lil fun. Maybe twice the size of ordinary drop/roll cookies, ‘K?) Let ’em cool. Make ice cream sandwiches by adding a dollop of your fav ice cream between two Javascript Cookies™. and smooshing them together a bit. Clean up around the edges, wrap the sandwich in plastic wrap and pack away in the freezer to chill back down and “age” a bit. Good in Javascript Cookies™? Mint chocolate chip, vanilla, chocolate and quite a few other flavors. Pick your fav and go to town.

BTW, make more than you think you’ll need. You’ll need ’em.

🙂