Chicken Tuesday Number Two

A chicken is like a scaredy-cat, right?  That'll be me.  My sister draws a W with her fingers and whips it at me like some people do to "give the finger" only she's got 3 fingers up to make a W ... and she says that I'm a wus.  I've wanted to blog about this before, but I have no idea how to spell wus.  Now I'm not scared of everything, it's just that I'm a wimpy kind of girl who never did like gym class cuz I always got hurt.  But my sister, well she's athletic, and beautiful, and did I mention athletic?  So I don't go for family river-raft rides, nor do I care to ride ferris wheels, and I CERTAINLY don't want to bungie jump!  So I am a chicken, and dang proud of it, cuz I'm 55 years old and doggone it, I get to be me.  If I can't be myself at 55, when IS it my turn?

Okay.  That's my chicken Tuesday, which I am posting while it is still Monday but just barely, because I want to call it a night (because I'm a wus) and a bunch of people already have their chicken tuesdays posted, and if there's one thing I'm NOT a-scared to do, it's type on a dang computer!

Buck, buck, buck, bwaaaaack!!!  G'night all.

Chicken and Noodles

This is an easy recipe.  Can tell you from memory.

My family prefers chicken thighs, but you can use a whole chicken, cut up ... or any parts you prefer.  This even works perfectly if the chicken is still frozen!  I've started it as a last minute plan several times that way and it comes out very good!

Spray Pam in bottom of a 9 x 12 cake pan.  I usually use a glass one, but metal works fine, too.  Place the chicken pieces in the coated pan.  Sprinkle with Lawrys salt, curry powder, garlic powder, and turmeric.  Add a little water to the pan (but don't rinse the seasonings off the chicken).  Bake uncovered at 350 till the juices run clear.

Remove the chicken from the pan and place in another oven-safe dish & put it back in the oven but turn the oven off.  This is just to keep it warm while you make the noodles.

(Well, you don't actually MAKE the noodles -- what you do is PREPARE the noodles.)

Pour the chicken broth into a saucepan.  Taste the broth to see if you should add a little salt.  Put some uncooked noodles into the broth (enough to come up to whatever level the broth is at -- just so there's a little more liquid than there are noodles).  Cook the noodles in the broth.

That's all there is to it.  Also prepare a vegetable or salad or both, and maybe open a can of cranberry sauce to serve with the meal, or else some other fruit to be the dessert.

This is COMFORT food!  Very nummy!