Chicken Nuggets

When James was little he loved chicken nuggets. I used to pop some on his plate with a small salad as a lunch meal on weekends.

I must say I like them too. Well nothing like an reformed cook who is more in touch with what is in food and what isn't.

The stupidmarkets sell the nuggets either in the deli, meat section or the freezer. If your eyesight is good and you know all the words...you know what is in the nugget.

You can go to one of those chicken franchise shops and pay about $10.99 a kilo for some of their chicken nuggets.

Or you can do what I do and save yourself a heap of money and get a great feed of chicken nuggets.

Lets take a look.



First off you need a healthy salad to go with your nuggets. In the colder months you may need to supplement your own garden salads with some from the green grocer. Now this is all done..the chicken nuggets are next.

This is nice and easy.

I buy my chicken breasts from a butcher who sells them for $8.99 a kilo. One small chicken boob will do just nicely.

Cube the chicken breast into bite size pieces and coat them with some of these crumbs.




That is what the chicken franchise shops use and into some oil the crumbed cubes go.



So there you have it....chicken nuggest that are made with pure chicken meat..and a few crumb to coat the meat.

Why don't you try it and see what the kids or yourself think

Until next time....hoo roo

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Fishy Tale

Tonight for tea, I had a surprise for Pat. Rainbow trout, grilled with a fresh side salad.



Not all of the salad is from our vegie patch. But the fish is true blue Aussie.

Those fish shops at the market give a great range of Aussie caught fish and good prices. This little fella was $13.99 a kilo and it set me back $5.10.

We have also started to buy marinated whole chickens for roasting from a butcher in the markets. Bigger than the stupidmarket ones they sell and only costing $6.00. This will easily feed 4 people or in our case a hot meal and then a cold meal with salads.

Also pork chops are a better price as well. Plus a bigger size than some of scrawny loin chops that are sold in stupidmarkets.

Start looking outside your stupidmarkets for cheaper meats.....its worth the look round.



Someone asked me ....."Why do you call them stupidmarkets"?


I answered with...."What is so super about them"?????


He laughed and said that made a lot of sense and he liked my reasoning.

Until next time....hoo roo

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Lucky's Potato Dressing

I love a good spud salad and often amazed how yummy a home made dressing can be. I have grown tired of the one I have been making for years now and so I experimented the other day and as I did such a good job with it, thought I'd share with you.


Mix in a bowl the following.....

• mayonnaise
• cream
• creamy dijonnaise
  

I tend to put about 50 - 50 with the cream and mayonnaise and then add the dijannaise to taste.

Then added to the hot diced spud along with some crunchy cook bacon pieces, some mustard seeds and red onion diced.

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