Incredible Chicken Stew

This stew is really good but ya gotta start with roasting some chicken pieces. Here is my recipe for awesome roasted chicken:

Tim’s Roasted Chicken

Ingredients:

3 chicken quarters – bone in, skin on
Olive oil to coat

1 Tablespoon granulated garlic powder

1 Tablespoon onion powder

2 Teaspoon salt

1 Teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

¼ Teaspoon ground thyme

Instructions:
Pre Heat oven to 475° F
Rub chicken with olive oil on both sides. Mix all spices together and sprinkle liberally onto both sides of chicken.
Roast for 1 hour and check for doneness. If juices run clear remove from oven and let rest, If not cook an additional 20 minutes. For bone in, skin on thighs cook for 20 to 30 minutes then check them.

After the chicken cools, debone it using your God-given tools: Your hands! then once all the chicken is off the bone your ready to make this stew. It is SO good I am telling you. This stew could also be used as Chicken pot pie filling by just adding some frozen peas at the end. Or you could add a bit more stock and drop in rolled dumplings and make it into Chicken and dumplings! It is really versatile. 

OK now let's make some stew! 

Tim’s Chicken Stew

INgredients:

3 sprigs fresh thyme

2 tbsp. olive oil 2 large carrots, peeled and sliced into coins 1 small onion, large chop 1 stalk celery, chopped Kosher salt

Freshly ground black pepper

3 cloves garlic, minced

1 tbsp. all-purpose flour 1 1/2 lb. Roasted Chicken, deboned and shredded.

1 bay leaf 3/4 lb. baby potatoes, quartered 3 c. low-sodium chicken broth ¼ Cup freshly chopped parsley, divided

DIRECTIONS

1.  In a large pot heat olive oil to medium high heat. Add carrots, celery, onions and half the parsley. Season with salt and pepper. Cook, stirring often, until the vegetables are tender, about 5 minutes. Add garlic and cook until fragrant, about 30 seconds.

2.  Add flour and stir until the vegetables are coated, then add thyme, bay leaf, potatoes, and broth. Season with salt and pepper. Bring mixture to a simmer and cook until the potatoes are tender, 15 min.

3.  Add chicken and simmer for 5 minutes 

4.  Garnish with parsley before serving.

A good dinner to be sure. Have a great day and remember to thank God for His provision. :) 

Steak Soup

I often search the WWW for good recipes and when I find a good one I often make it and then I modify it to my liking. But sometimes I just come up with a good recipe using my own pea brain and it comes out pretty darn good. That is the case with this recipe, I wanted a good steak soup recipe with everything that I love about getting a good steak dinner at a nice steak house. So I created this steak soup. I did a little research on the web and found that most steak soup recipes used stew meat. I did not have time to let the stew meat marinade nor did I want to cook it in the crockpot all day. So I used a good New York Steak. I cut it up into cubes and then dredged it in seasoned flour and my own steak rub (My steak rub is 1 tablespoons thyme, 1 tablespoons garlic powder, 2 tablespoons parsley flakes 1/4 tablespoon paprika, 1/4 tablespoon freshly ground black pepper and 1/2 tablespoon salt, grind all together in a coffee grinder). Then I seared it all together in two tablespoons of oil in a hot skillet until they were nicely browned on the outside then added them to the pot..

Then I diced 1 half of a large yellow onion and about 1 cup of mushrooms and sautéed those until the onions were soft. I put a pot on the stove and put in 1 can of beef broth and 1/2 can of water into it. Then I added some veggies; a half bag of California blend which is carrots, broccoli and cauliflower. To that I added 1 can of green beans, drained and a cup and a half of chopped frozen spinach and 2 cloves of garlic minced. Next I diced up a medium potato and added that to the pan. Then I added the meat in

and added about a tablespoon of my Steak rub. I let the whole thing cook for about 20 minutes or until the potatoes were fork tender.  The soup was so good! Hope you try it and tell me what you think.

Tim’s Steak Soup:
1 Can beef broth
1 New York Steak chopped Into cubes
Half bag California Blend vegetables (Carrots, Broccoli and Cauliflower)
1 1/2 cup chopped frozen spinach
I medium potato cubed
1 1/2 cups mushrooms, sliced
Tim’s Steak Rub (See recipe above)
1 Large clove garlic, minced
*Note, the broth was a bit green from the spinach so next time I am going to rinse and drain the spinach first.

Lost and a crazy little dog.

Here we are again and it is mid January, Lost gets going again in only 2 more days.. Can't wait for that. Last season the island was moved, although we do not know where; moved in time or moved to another location in it's current time... Well we will have wait until Wednesday to see...




On another note iMac was sleeping the other night after he got 'tucked in' with his blanket and he fell asleep on his nose! Check it out...


That dog is crazy, but in February he will be 9 years old so he is getting up there for a dogs life. Wow I guess if you buy into the 7 to 1 year thing he is middle aged in dog years. I don't know I think he is slowing a bit but sure still has a ton of energy.
OK enough for this time. See you all next time.