January 2025

Post-holiday month: pulled chicken stretched across three meals, a mushroom-quinoa side that needed more mushroom, breakfast sausage adjustments (softer grind, less fennel, sweeter), and a backlog of missed December ideas — goulash, stroganoff, French onion soup — to catch up on.

Undated.

January meals

• Made pulled chicken (Pulled BBQ-style chicken) for Ann’s redhot chicken dip (Hot Buffalo chicken dip) and leftovers
  • Will adapt leftovers for chicken taco salad (similar to Shredded taco chicken)
  • Chicken cottage pie (standard cottage pie assembly, using braising liquid for gravy)
• Roast chicken and quinoa
  • Quinoa was:
    • dried mushrooms
    • raisins
    • sunflower seeds
    • oil
    • 1 cup quinoa fried with above
    • 1.5 cups stock
    • 12 minutes
    • this needed more mushrooms, but was delicious with some pan drippings in it
• Egg / English muffin / sausage patty
  • Homemade sausage adjustments needed → Breakfast sausage
    • Softer grind
    • 20% less fennel
    • Sweeter
    • 50g →a

Food ideas, post-holiday

• Meat loaf
• Queso + chips
• Pho ga (chicken)
• Wonton soup (use up freezer wontons)
  • Chicken stock (homemade)
  • Shrimp shells (or bonito?)
• Missed December recipes
  • Goulash
  • Stroganoff
  • Soups
    • Pea soup / split pea (1)
    • French onion
      • Needs a beef stock
  • Crumbles
• Pho update
  • Red Boat fish sauce (more common than what I have)