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!

Stupid old quote

"Everybody talks about the weather.  Nobody does anything about it."

More quotes from Mom & Dad

Mom's reply when I asked her how she gets Dad to do things he obviously doesn't really want to do:

"Well he LOVES me, Rani."

Dad's reply when I asked HIM how Mom gets him to do things he doesn't really want to do:

"Oh, she just talks about it and talks about it until I think it's my idea."

My mom used to say ...

"If you don't bother to vote, then you aren't allowed to gripe."

My dad used to say ...

"I may not agree with a word that you say ... but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

(He was probably quoting somebody else, but it had a big impact on me as a child.)

Thanks, Dad!

Research and Think for Yourselves!

I've read a coupla blogs about a certain candidate for president who's supposedly a radical Muslim who won't say the pledge of allegiance and got sworn into office on the Quran instead of the Bible and supposedly this is verified at Snopes.com.

So I went to Snopes.com on my own (not through a link).

And the tale is not true.

Snopes.com checks the facts on "urban legends."  You can go there yourself, and look up whatever you've read in round-robin email or whatever about all kinds of things.

Do your homework, kids, and THINK.  Thanks, Rani

 

If you know how to pray -- tell a child

The news online tonite is bothering me so much:  Some lady killed her children and even though a teacher had reported the family to Protective Services, nothing happened in time to save the children.  Some man threw his children off a bridge.  A marine killed his girlfriend and her unborn child.  Near where I live, a police officer whose wife had a restraining order against him snuck into his house & waited for his kids to leave and then killed his wife.

Seems like a lot of this goes on.  Seems like we need more angels!  And maybe too many people don't even know they can pray.

If you know how to pray, tell a child.  A long time ago, most children at least knew about prayer.  I don't think enough kids even know anymore.  If you know how to pray, even if you don't do it often enough -- please, tell a child!

Thanks.