The weather has been flip flopping all winter around here. Last week it was mild and today it is cold and blustery. The gusting wind slams the house and the water in the birdbath is frozen solid. I was grateful to have a stay-at-home day today.
I spent most of the day playing in the kitchen. It all began with the purchase of a roasted chicken from San's Club yesterday. Sam's Club roasted chickens are very large and flavorful. I intended to make a chicken pot pie to take as a meal to someone. There was more chicken than I needed for one pie so I considered other ways to use it. I decided to make more pot pies in little pans this time. Steve and I would eat two for dinner and I would freeze the other two. After building these, I found that I had too much pie crust leftover! I considered again, how not to waste the pie dough scraps? I saw an apple in the fruit bowl that had been sitting there, untouched for two weeks. I chopped it up, added some cinnamon sugar, a dash of flour, dotted it with butter, and built two apple turnovers.
By mid afternoon I had the kitchen cleaned up and sat down to do some stitching. A phone call from Claire and texts from Audrey and Tess filled out our weekend plans. Claire's family is visiting this weekend (bedrooms were prepped this morning), we have dinner with friends Friday evening, breakfast for Claire's family, Tess and Blake on Saturday, and dinner for Audrey's family and Tess on Sunday. That will be three largish meals to make this weekend...I came up with buttermilk waffles for Saturday morning (fruit, eggs, bacon on the side), chicken and rice casserole and a fruited JELL-O salad on Saturday, and beef stew on Sunday. I will need to get another rotisserie chicken for the chicken casserole...and here we go again.
By the way, I had this JELL-O salad at our rug hooking potluck last week and it was delicious. I never had this JELL-O salad version with cranberry sauce and crushed pineapple in it. Everyone else was familiar with it and Kay gave me the recipe.
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