Bits & Bites from Miss Betty's Kitchen – Cooking, Camaraderie, & Chicken
July 29, 2010
The eight of us with our white or black or golden skinned hands made an image of cooking camaraderie as we pulled apart 4 cooked chickens from Costco–total cost $19.80. It was a first for all of them, and a lesson I hope will stay with them. Now they know first hand how much meat you can get off of one of those chickens, how quick and easy it is, and by adding some halved grapes and toasted pecans you can create something fine. We winged a dressing of mayonnaise, sour cream, olive oil, lemon juice and fresh dill from items we had on hand in the refrigerator. The dill was “not perfect but still perfectly good,” to quote my neighborhood grocery store in Washington, D.C. from a sign that hangs over the bruised vegetable bin…

