Three Chicken Day

I was hungry for some chicken
(guitar riff)
But wanted to it to really last
(guitar riff)
So I boiled that bird for ‘bout 20 minutes
For a sandwich, salad, and soup
And you know how I love to make soup…


Sure has been a while, hasn't it? Po Foo is funny that way. It's spontaneous, and hard to capture in the moment. I was going to try committing Po Foo to video, but this is the trouble I run into everytime. Anyhoo...

I was searching through my somewhat bare fridge and freezer, when I came across a single chicken breast. I wasn't about to wait for it to thaw on its own, so I decided to boil it. Once I got the process started, I realized there were plenty of options now available for me. I wasn't very hungry, so once the chicken was cooked through I cut it up and divided it into piles.

The first pile, and the largest slices of chicken breast, were going to be eaten right away in some kind of sandwich, but what? I managed to dig out a small, half-eaten jar of pesto sauce from the fridge, and a little bit of grated cheese, and tomato slices from an 'expired' salad. (more on that later) Warmed it all on a slice of bread for a couple seconds and consumed on the spot.

The next smaller sized pieces I wrapped up and stashed in the fridge to have with said salad from before. My boyfriend brought me home this salad, several actually, after a hard night's work at the local fast food joint. An Important Message About Po Foo!: Those of you in the 'food service industry' MUST attempt to utilize your position whenever possible. That probably goes without saying, and I know managers and owners can be real nasty about it, they'd rather add to the hundreds of thousands of tons of perfectly edible food stuffs that are wasted every year, rather than give you a free meal, which is basically a write-off anyway. Try not to get fired for it. Meanwhile there are people starving here (maybe you?), and abroad. There's even a small movement of people who primarily eat food waste from grocery stores and hotels by means of dumpster diving. To learn more check out this site - Freegan.info - not exactly my cup of tea but I figured I'd dispense some little-known info for you all. *steps off of soap box*
Hm.. how'd that get there?.....
When I go to eat that salad later, I'll be faced with a new challenge, it's slightly picked over, and we have no dressing. I'm sick of vinegar and oil, but I'm pretty sure I've got some salsa in the refrigerator that isn't getting any younger... Plus that open can of corn.... bacos...

Finally, the smallest cuts of chicken breast were saved to be put into the newly created soup broth as a result of boiling the chicken. I let the broth cook down on low heat for maybe 15 minutes, added a little bullion to it, as well as the chicken pieces, a small bit of onion, a 1/4 cup of instant rice (already cooked), some of the corn I found in the fridge, and one of the baby carrots once again from the previously mentioned salads.


So as a re-cap, I more or less created 3 small simple meals from one medium sized chicken breast. The total prep time was about 30-40 minutes. Sure some of it was pre-existing, but that's really what po foo is all about. Making do with what you've got.




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