Chicken Sh*t, Cracked Shells, and Resetting Expectations

 

There are NO particularly stunning pictures of my Buffalo chicken dip concoction, to which I will now refer to as "Chicken Shit," so I will present you with this totally lucky shot of two jets flying overhead last night. Sometimes, I swear they just like to do laps out of sheer boredom. My Beloved disagrees. Either way, they fly over quite a bit, and while it's loud, it's not really a bother to me or him. Even Nettie and Odin seem to be unaffected, which is good. 

ANYWHOO, spent some time yesterday morning prepping foods. Boiled some eggs, cut up some salad, made some broccoli salad for him (while it COULD have been keto, it isn't because of the added raisins), made some of the best bacon of my bacon-cooking history, mostly thanks to the bacon, and made another dish of the Chicken Shit. 

I don't have a precise recipe. I mostly just wing it ... (get it? WING it?) :D 

Here's a rough guide: 

    1 can of chicken chunks, drained, and rid of excess schmaltz   
         - I usually go for the store brand (Walmart) because it seems 

            a bit less disturbing than that name-brand stuff

    Part or all of a brick of cream cheese, can be softened or still cold, doesn't matter, cut into four or five pieces

    A third to a half a bottle of blue cheese dressing (if you're using a normal-sized bottle of dressing)
        - Less is probably more, unless you like your dip to be soupy and extra fatty

    A third of a bottle of Buffalo sauce, or more, if you want more heat 
        - I use this kind: 

• Preheat oven to 395F to 400F
• Layer in a 9x13 or other similarly sized baking dish as follows 
• Drained chicken, broken/shredded with a fork
• Cream Cheese - really doesn't matter where you place it, but maybe space it evenly, if your OCD calls for it like mine does 
• Cover first with blue cheese dressing
• Drizzle in the Buffalo sauce (you can also use straight up hot sauce, or add in Sriracha sauce, like I have the past two times)
• Throw, or gently place the dish in the oven, close the door, and set the timer for 20 - 30 minutes
• At timer's end, take dish out, stir everything up, and return to the oven for another 15 minutes or so

Pro tips: 

• You can put the dish in the oven BEFORE it's fully preheated
• The top will be golden/orangish, and maybe have a bit of browning going on when it's fully done
• Adjust temperature to your location and your particular oven. We are currently at 2500-ish elevation, so it's a bit different than the Ohio elevation of 700-ish, but not by much. 
• If it's still pale, and still looks like cream cheese and blue cheese dressing, it's not done enough yet, unless you truly DO want to use it as a dip, then carry on with your bad self and take it out of the oven at that point 

This makes probably four or five servings, if you're eating it as part of a keto diet. If you're using it for dip, you probably would want to double everything, especially if others will be eating it, too. It is PARTICULARLY excellent with those Garden Fresh Blue Corn Tortilla Chips. I promise! 

Something I did happen to get a picture of was this: 

I can't tell you how long I boiled the eggs for, but I can tell you that the addition of a healthy splash of white vinegar makes peeling said eggs without a lot of tearing or egg breakage, or tiny lil pieces a WHOLE LOT easier. 

I have tried ALL the tricks the internets have to offer. They are lies, I tell you. 

I'm fairly certain they boiled for at least 15-20 minutes whilst I was doing other stuff, and then sat on the stove in the hot water for probably another half hour, and then I drained them and left them sit warm for a bit ... THEN I made an ice bath and put them in, but I don't think ANY of that matters. 

I believe the scientific crowd would tell you that the vinegar somehow thins or softens the shell, but also keeps it attached to that lil lining on the inside, but I could be wrong. 

Regardless, take an egg, gently tap it on the counter on all sides until it cracks a bit, then VERY GENTLY place said cracked egg under your hand, and EQUALLY GENTLY roll it back and forth to loosen the lining from the egglet itself. 

Then it will peel with ease (see pictorial proof above). I used to make an unholy mess with the shells, bits of shells, and completely butchered the appearance of the egg. With the vinegar, the eggs have looked as good as any factory-processed hardboiled egg you see in the store. 

As for tracking what I et over the past few days, it goes something like this - I forgot to do it. 

I know I had the rest of the Shirataki Sausage concoction, and another chaffle for a meal the next day, a salad, some chicken shit, some keto almond flour crackers, and yes I killed another bag of the garlic-pepper onion because I had such a horrendous headache that wasn't going away. I probably had a cheese stick, too, in the morning. 

Yesterday, chicken shit, a piece or two of bacon, a salad, and some more garlic-pepper onions and a couple bites of the broccoli salad. Dinner was where it went south. Got some barbecued chicken (not the sauce, the cooking technique), along with a row of grilled corn on the cob, and some deep fried zucchini sticks, which were not worth the carbs upon which they were constructed. 

It was a fuqitol kind of evening. 

I had a bowl of raspberries and strawberries with some heavy cream and whipped cream later. 

Again, fuqitol. 

It was probably a round of keto "flu" causing the headache, hence the reason I felt the need to eat the onions ... carbs, but not all the way horrible carbs. No matter, will get back on it shortly. 

Today, I think I might try to make that 90-second keto bread that I shared a while back, just to see if it works because then I could make a BLT mostly without the L, and a salad for lunch. 

Also today, being the first full day of feetballs, thus keeping My Beloved occupied, I may go out and wander about. I need to go achieve some more of that chocolate raspberry coffee from Fry's, and I also want to go look for an outdoor end table situation that will work better than what we currently have, which is about the size of a postage stamp and not worthy of holding all the crap I drag out here. 

I've got some shit to do, some planning, and some readjusting of my brain, mostly surrounding the exercise, and the gymnauseum. Nothing will change without me changing it, so that I am doing. Maybe I've been talking about it too much? Maybe not enough? Maybe it's time to just shit or get off the pot and go do the things. That walk ain't gonna take itself, and that new workout at the gym isn't going to do itself either. 

I have to stop waiting. I have to start moving. End of. 

This sedentary existence is solving for nothing. 

And on THAT happy note, I am going to go now. 

Have a wonderful Sunday!