What should I make for dinner?

[spinbaby]

Thinking ahead to dinner. To work with today, I have half a leftover Costco rotisserie chicken, a head of cabbage, carrots, a red pepper, green onions, and some celery. Stir fry would be obvious, but I'm getting kind of tired of stir fry. Maybe I could construct some kind of salad?

[Turbineguy]

1. Those rotisserie chickens make

really good curry.

On edit: well they don't actually make it, but.....

[spinbaby]

2. That's an idea

I have some red curry paste in the fridge but no coconut milk.

[Turbineguy]

12. I just picked up 4 cans!

[laundry_queen]

3. A friend of mine always makes creamed chicken with her left overs

She just sautés the veggies and chicken, adds a bit of flour and milk or cream to thicken, some thyme, salt, pepper. Very filling and tasty. I sometimes make it for scratch with my kids but I add a ton of kale and spinach (like 2 whole bunches of kale and a whole bag of spinach). It cooks the greens right down and the kids don't even realize the amount of greens they are eating because...well, creamy chicken! Oh, and I always start out with an entire onion in addition to the other veggies.

Sometimes I also use left over rotisserie chicken for my 'southwest' chicken salad. It's just lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, shredded cheese, sliced hardboiled eggs and corn, with the chicken too, and I use Renee's southwest dressing. You could use any vegetables though...I just chose ones that seem 'southwest-y' to me

[bif]

4. I'd boil the carcass and make a soup out of it.

[spinbaby]

5. First we use the meat

After I get another meal out of it, THEN I make soup.

[Freddie]

6. Chicken salad

Chicken, celery, carrots, onions, mayo on good crusty rolls. Add bacon, lettuce and tomato for chicken salad club. With a side of coleslaw to use your cabbage. (crap now I'm hungry!)

[rdharma]

7. I was thinking along those lines too.

Chicken salad and coleslaw.

[littlewolf]

8. or make potpie nt

[grasswire]

9. do you have rice?

You don't need coconut milk for curry, really.

Another thought is spicy mulligatawny soup. You need:

onion
apple
celery
carrot
bell pepper

you dice and sweat those with some curry powder and ginger

then add the chicken meat and 6 cups chicken broth (sometimes I just use bouillon cubes and water).

simmer.

the recipe is available on google: spicy mulligatawny soup from cooking light. I don't add the chutney or hot pepper or any tomato, but you can tweak as you like.

It really is satisfying and delicious.

[NJCher]

10. Japanese slaw

I was looking at this recipe last night and I think I'll make it, even though I have regular cabbage and not savoy.

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Japanese-Style-Quick-Pickled-Slaw-103610

If I had your rotisserie chicken, I'd warm it and serve it with hoisin sauce. That would be a nice contrast to the Japanese Slaw.

Then I'd add some type of vegetable like broccoli or something along that line.


Cher

[spinbaby]

11. I'm thinking along these lines myself

I think a nice Asian slaw with chicken is the way to go tonight.