cooking advice?

[vaznetti]

Last night I was tired, so I made fairly simple baked chicken -- a cut-up chicken in a baking dish with some cloves of garlic and shallots and the juice of a lemon and an orange squeezed over it. (Also olive oil, salt and pepper.) I ate a piece of it and put the whole pan in the fridge.

Tonight, I took it out for leftovers and discovered that the pan is full of jelly and fat, all full of orange and lemon and chickeny goodness. And I'm wondering if there's something I can do with that stuff, because it smells like it might be tasty. Some kind of gravy, I guess, but I don't have any use for that.

Any advice?

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[ethrosdemon.livejournal.com]

The next time you baked some kind of poultry, if you leave out the citrus (which alters the taste a great deal) and use rosemary and thyme instead and again have this jelly and fat, you can make chicken and dumplings or home made chicken and noodles that are delicious and simple. If you are interested, I could send you some homespun recipes on this kind of thing (I come from a v traditional background where I learned to cook from the ground up like this and use and reuse meat and other things to make other meals, weird considering, but true all the same).

[vaznetti]

If you are interested, I could send you some homespun recipes on this kind of thing (I come from a v traditional background where I learned to cook from the ground up like this and use and reuse meat and other things to make other meals, weird considering, but true all the same).

I would totally be interested in that -- generally leftover meat just becomes tomorrow's lunch or dinner in my universe, but interesting things to do with leftover chicken in particular would be welcome. And dumplings, which are alien to me because my mother never makes them.

Doesn't everyone reuse meat or whatever, though? I mean, OK, I don't usually render my own chicken fat any more, but it's not like I didn't grow up that way.

[ethrosdemon.livejournal.com]

I think we're just old, my dear. Ok, let me type some stuff up for you! I am making a chicken pot pie from left over chicken today myself as a matter of fact.