the chicken

Now you are about to read just how uneventful my life is that I would even consider blogging about this subject; but, I'm just so excited over it I had to share! I bought a chicken this week at Kroger. You know like a whole chicken - it was $9.00 actually, one of the big birds! I brought little missy home and washed her, then threw her on the stove to cook for a few hours. I'm just thankful I didn't have to chop her head off and pluck out her feathers. I remember chickens running around my grandparent's yard all the time and being just a little frightened of their spastic chases. When grandpa would cut one's head off the bird would keep running around until it fell over. Nice picture, huh?
Well, I cooked that chicken and then pulled the meat off and chopped it up. That was on Monday! On Tuesday I made chicken and rice soup with half that chicken - it made enough soup for 4 people to eat 2 meals out of! Then on Wednesday I learned unexpectedly that I was to bring food to a couple (I've never met) who had a baby in our church....so I got out the ??? you guessed it, chicken. I made chicken and black bean enchiladas for us all. 12!!! That's right TWELVE enchiladas! Enough for a whole family to have 4 - then our family had them for two nights in a row! That's 5 meals out of a CHICKEN! A $9 CHICKEN! I just really hope that that sweet bird lived a peaceful life of eating corn and visiting with her lady friends. But I shouldn't go there should I? Let me know if you want a recipe! Maybe I'll buy a chicken a week - this will be a new goal of mine. How many meals can I get out of a bird! I could write a book about it...wow I am boring. Sorry!