On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:01:55 -0600, Becca > wrote:

>brooklyn1 wrote:
>> Melba's Jammin' wrote:
>>
>>> Becca wrote:
>>>
>>> chili, beef stew, king ranch chicken. I am not fond of eating out,
>>>
>>>
>>>> Me, neither.
>>>>
>>
>> At fast food and chain joints preparing those foods only requires
>> opening #10 cans and heating... at the fancy schmancy joints they
>> still open #10 cans but they doctor... and at the high end joints
>> they open #10 cans, doctor, and to make it more like home cooking they
>> add the scrapings from patrons plates. If yoose insist on eating
>> chili out your best bet are the fast food joints. Very rarely does
>> one find beef stew at other than the local greasy spoon, again from
>> #10 cans, plus whatever you can imagine. I've not a clue what's king
>> ranch chicken but if it's like a la king, you can bet your bipee it's
>> canned chicken.
>
>The foods I mentioned, are meals that I cooked and put into the
>freezer. King Ranch Chicken is a Mexican casserole made from chicken,
>onions, peppers, tomatoes w/green chiles, corn tortillas & cheese.

I was concurring, I don't like to eat out either, so I explained why.
Your King Ranch Chicken sounds good, corn tortillas are the starch
instead of rice/noodles, that'll work. And the canned chicken I
mentioned isn't bad, I buy it from Sam's Club to use as a change from
tuna salad... all solid white meat in a lightly seasoned broth, cats
love it... I think it's better for chicken caserole type dishes than
to bust up a perfectly good roasted chicken. I don't mind canned
chili once in a while but I won't eat chili from an eatery that claims
theirs is home made... doesn't get more mystery meat... I know at the
local ski lodges chili is what comes directly from the can, no
additions... only they charge like $5 a cup. I almost always have
chili in my freezer, some of those containers you saw in the picture
of my freezer were chili. I know it's probably not Texas kosher but I
prefer my chili over pasta noodles.