Poached Chicken and Snow

Eight inches of snow on the ground, partially melted with more on the way from a Winter Storm Warning from 6:00PM today until 9:00AM Wednesday.  

 

Welcome to Cleveland!  J

I tell people that I traded tornadoes for snow.  Apparently, this winter has decided to try and make me sorry I did that…

My backyard, including my raised bed gardens.

 

We had to go out into the storm yesterday to get to some doctor’s appointments.  I cleaned off my car mostly because I felt sorry for it, buried under all that white stuff.  We took the big car and I also cleaned it off while Hubby used the snow blower.  When he bought the thing, I had thought he’d gotten too large a machine.  Not now!!  It is just fine!  Does a great job quickly and seems to be able to handle anything Cleveland winters can dump on it.  It’s even self-propelled so all Hubby has to do is steer.  Maybe some day I’ll even get to use it.  It actually looks like fun…

Cold, but fun…

This is supposed to be a food blog but since my WLS, I haven’t been doing that much cooking.  Well, I made far too many cookies for Christmas (ate far too many, as well!), but cooking of meals isn’t really something I’m doing a lot of these days.

One of the few things I cook is poached chicken.  WLS requires that all meats be very moist and have some sort of sauce to help everything go down and stay down.

 

Poached Chicken

3 or 4 chicken tenders, thawed

1 cup chicken broth (or 1 cup water and 1 bouillon cube.)

Juice and zest of 1 lime

1 T rosemary leaves or 1 tsp powdered rosemary

Salt and pepper, unless using bouillon then pepper only

1 T flour

Heat broth in small sauce pan to boiling.  Add chicken, lime, and rosemary.  Cook 15 to 20 minutes, until chicken is done.  Remove chicken and keep warm.

Fish out whole rosemary leaves, if used.  Stir flour into a little water.  Stir flour slurry into poaching liquid and cook until thickened. 

Serve chicken with sauce. 

Resolutions

January 2, 2014: a day of new beginnings.  And resolutions.  Well, the living of those resolutions made yesterday or night before last, anyway.

My resolutions:

Lose the last of my weight and reach my Goal Weight.

Ride my exercise bike for at least 15 minutes per day.

Do my shoulder exercises every day

Go to the gym (after finding one, of course!)

Write!  (Doing that one!  Ha!)

Finish at least one quilt this year, not just the top.

As I am one of the millions who had their health insurance canceled at the end of the year, I am sort of dreading the expenses that go with my new plan.  I’m done with my physical therapy for my shoulder, luckily, as those fees go from $20 per visit to $45!  The same fee increase applies to seeing my cardiologist, too.  And my out of pocket went from $2500 to $4900.  And lots of other co-pays went up as well.  But my prostate is covered and I have all the birth control I need!  Thanks, Obama, you bastard.  I hope you rot in hell!!

I have several story ideas rattling around in my brain that I would love to get written.  I think I’m going to leave my computer up over night so I can easily start up in the morning.  I wake up with the voice in my head going and going.  I need to write this stuff down.   Or type it in, as the case may be.  J