It’s also helpful to do any knife work in advance and store your chopped goods in the fridge. Soups, sauces, and salad dressings can be made entirely in advance so when the clock strikes happy hour, you’re ahead of the game. It takes the stress out of your day-of prep and makes sure you get to enjoy the party yourself. Anything that can be made beforehand is key. Bake at 350 degrees till biscuits are cooked through and golden brown.Camille’s Top Tips for Cooking for a Crowdĭo all possible prep in advance so that you can enjoy the evening, too.
Make a simple biscuit from a box or from scratch and drop into the pot.
"You don’t HAVE to add frozen peas and carrots, but they’re low-cost and make the meal more filling! Add these in as well as the shredded chicken and cook until the peas and carrots are hot, then season to taste. You can use either heavy cream or milk for the creamy texture (heavy cream gives best results). Cook the roux to a golden brown and add in your stock, stirring as you go. "When you’re ready to make the soup, add some chicken fat into a pot - I prefer a cast-iron Dutch oven - and heat on medium or medium high until it’s liquefied again and fragrant, then add flour to create a paste.
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Shred the chicken off the bone and store the bones and skin if you want to make bone broth, and set the meat to the side. There’s enough of the broth for two or three meals, so save what’s left and freeze. Cool the broth so the fat rises and solidifies to skim off, but save some of the fat. I’ve always put the veggies/herbs in compost because I don’t know what to do with them. "Strain the stock into a bowl and pick out the chicken with tongs. If it boils down too much, you can always add more water and cook longer. Bring to a boil and then lower the heat and cover for your workday (minimum of like two hours). Throw it all in a pot with enough water to cover the chicken by about two to three fingers if you push it down. "Use one Cornish hen (you can get a pack of two from most grocery stores for less than $10), rosemary, sage, thyme (if you don’t have them in dry spices, Safeway/Albertsons has a fresh blend I prefer for $2.50), onion (quartered), garlic (minced), celery (chopped), a little butter (not required the hen has all the fat you need), and salt and pepper.
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We can make one chicken into five meals for two people, plus use the scraps from the bone broth to chop up for our dog: 1) Sliced rotisserie chicken, 2) chicken panini with pesto and mozzarella, 3) chicken salad, 4) chicken stir-fry, and 5) chicken soup."
If you don’t have a membership, ask a friend to take you. And now one $9 rotisserie chicken has provided four nights of supper for two people, so eight meals!" Now you have a homemade chicken veggie soup! I like to eat mine over a wild rice mix for a little texture and carbs. Take the chicken out of the cheesecloth, pick off the bits of edible meat that have come off (little scraps) and toss those in the soup, and dispose of the rest of the carcass. "Add spices - a little bit of red wine or balsamic vinegar is also nice - then add chopped-up veggies (really, anything you have lying around onions = amazing), and basically just cook until the broth is delicious.
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