grocery shopping on a Saturday afternoon

kinda makes me hate children...not my own he was at home...all the rest of the children in the world...and not even all of them just the ones at Kroger this afternoon

funeral chicken phenomena continues

the sibling of a close friend passed away this week and David's first thought was to pick up chicken my goodness he is such a Southerner! Naturally I put together a ziti and my partner in crime(being a Northerner) was putting together a lasagna!

Haz-mat? really?

for chicken wing sauce? kind of make think twice about ordering buffalo wings

alfredo ala mickey d's

nuggets alfredo? alfredo mcnuggets? golden arches alfredo? mcalfredo?
Many many years ago I had arthroscopic knee surgery that left me on crutches & not driving for 8 very long weeks. David was having to do everything including all of the shopping & cooking. One night after a long day of chauffeuring me around to my job & physical therapy as well as a full shift at his own job he served up a lovely alfredo dish made with yes McDonald's chicken mcnuggets. This was back before the frozen dinners included the chicken and he didn't have time to swing by the store buy chicken then cook it so he cut out the middleman and swung by Mickey D's for a couple of orders of mcnuggets. It was a source of food that evening, edible but far from incredible and thankfully never repeated.

fried chicken phenomena

shortly after David & I married his grandmother died and I was introduced to the fine Southern tradition of showering the grieving family with buckets, boxes and hell maybe even bags of fried chicken. Seriously there was chicken for days! Being a northerner some sort of pasta dish was always the covered dish of choice for a grieving family. Anytime I send something down here it is generally a baked ziti because I know they'll have plenty of chicken, ridiculous amounts of chicken The added benefit is that the recipe is easy to double and it'll take care of dinner here as well. And I guess I'll be making one this week as a friend of David's family passed away suddenly last night. I did not know him very well I usually saw more of the wife but it is shocking to think wow 58 he was so young...

it's not just the schools

West Knoxville has better chicken
Bojangle's, now we have a Popeyes can Church's be far behind?