Janet wrote:
> In article >,
> says...
>
>> Now I just have to continue my quest for some kind of chicken that
>> daughter will eat. She will eat it at a restaurant and in some
>> cases I am pretty sure they are just heating up a precooked frozen
>> chicken breast. But when I buy those, she won't eat them.
>
> Why not buy a whole fresh raw chicken and roast it. Depending on
> her tastes there are lots of ways to add flavour; a cut lemon in the
> body cavity, or garlic slivers, or herbs rubbed over the skin.
Now that would be wasteful. Not that I would do it because I will just not
cook a whole bird or even usually things with bones in it. Just disgusts me
to look at it. And daughter won't eat things with bones. And nobody in
this house eats roast chicken. I did bring home rotissary chickens maybe
three time and wound up having to throw them out every time. Husband did
little more than pick at it and say that it was no good and daughter didn't
like it either. I bought different flavors at different stores. Frankly I
don't think I have ever even *eaten* a roast chicken. It is nothing we ever
had at home. I don't think my mom ever even bought a whole chicken other
than those Rock Cornish Game hens and oh how I hated those. I would do
everything in my power to avoid eating the thing.
>
> After roast chicken dinner there's enough left for sandwiches or some
> kind of chicken+ vegetable pie, curry, or pasta bake. The carcase can
> then be simmered to make a wonderful stock for soup.
Nobody would eat a chicken sandwich in this house. Daughter and I don't
like sandwiches and husband does but doesn't like chicken. Not that he's
home because he's not. We don't eat curry. I take it that is common where
you live. It's not common here and we don't like the taste of it. We don't
eat pie. Daughter will eat chicken and pasta but I can't eat chicken at all
so when I make it for her, it's canned chicken and she does like that. She
won't eat soup either unless she is really sick and I tell her she has to.
So no need for chicken stock.
>
> Far more economical than buying precooked chicken breasts.
No it's not because assuming I could even bring myself to do such a thing,
it would wind up in the trash because nobody would eat it. Daughter only
likes boneless, skinless chicken breasts, plain with perhaps only a touch of
lemon, salt and pepper. No other seasonings. And they have to be cooked in
some sort of way I have yet to achieve. If there is cheese, or sauce, or
other herbs or anything else, she won't eat it.
The only way I ever came up with to cook it that she would eat was in the
chicken Vesuvio. But when she found out there was wine in the recipe she
refused to eat it. I tried to make it without the wine but it was just not
good. That's all a moot point now though since that recipe doesn't fit with
the South Beach diet. And yes, there was sauce in that recipe but there
were other things mixed into it.