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.