Last Sunday I cooked a whole chicken in the oven, a very traditional Sunday meal for my family. When I talk about chicken here I only mean a local farmer’s chicken-you can use what ever kind of chicken you like but mine always come from a farm. We had plenty left over and instead of just turning the whole thing into chicken soup like I usually do I picked off several large chunks, shredded it and turned it into chicken enchiladas. I looked through several recipes to make it and I realized with an odd clarity that I’d never, ever made enchiladas before. I love Mexican food and make tostados, tacos, and burritos but enchiladas just seemed so overly cheesy. So why did I change my mind? I don’t know. I guess it was the large can of enchilada sauce staring at me from the back of the cupboard. The chicken and the enchilada sauce just came together.
My kids were leary at first but took a few tentative bites. Shockingly enough they both loved them and had second helpings. Groovy Girl usually does a lot of scraping and picking of my recipes, separating the what she is willing to eat and what will remain on the plate scrapped to the edges or on her napkin. Teenage Boy eats whatever because he’s well, a teenage boy, but his look can range from sullen to less-sullen depending on the meal. He ate his entire plates-worth and asked greedily for more. Dad wasn’t home to beat him to second helpings and we managed to eat the whole dish after I set aside the last two enchiladas so he could eat between meetings. This will definetely be added to my regular rotation as they were super easy-it helped that the chicken was already cooked) and every once in awhile my mind drifts off as I think about other combinations for another round of enchiladas. If you have a favorite please leave me a link.
What did you cook up this week?
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