Chicken Stroganoff - Who Knew

I found this recipe and I just knew I had to try it. I just can't figure out why I have never thought of this before. I mean anything that can be done with beef can be done with chicken. This recipe came from the March/April 2011 issue of GRIT magazine (www.Grit.com) in the Comfort Foods area. There are a couple of tweaks I would give it next time; I'll discuss them after I give the complete recipe.

Chicken Stroganoff


1/3 stick butter
3 medium to large chicken breasts
Salt and pepper to taste
2 cans cream of mushroom soup
1 small carton sour cream

(1) Melt butter in pan. Add chicken breasts (can be taken right from freezer, washed and thrown in the pot), salt, pepper and soup. Cover and simmer, checking after 30 minutes, then checking every hour or two. Add a little additional butter, if needed, to keep chicken from burning. Cook 3 to 4 hours.

(2) Add sour cream and cook an additional 30 minutes to 1 hour. If chicken is falling apart and liquid is blending together, it's done. Serve over rice or noodles, with a tossed salad on the side.

That's the whole recipe. However, instead of cooking over the stove, I put it in a crockpot (I love to slow cook my meat). I did put in the butter first, however because my chicken breasts had skin on, I didn't feel it needed the butter. If I had the skin off the chicken breasts, then I think the butter would be good. I also felt that 2 cans of mushroom soup was too much for 3 breasts of chicken. I believe that it was a little runny and maybe I could have added another chicken breast. I would not add the sour cream until almost ready to serve, the sour cream could cause separation when heated to long. I also would de-bone the chicken breast so that when it is eaten you don't have to worry about bones. I cooked it in the crockpot the same amount of time as over the stove, maybe a little longer, but it is so much easier.

Try it, let me know what you think.

May 13, 2011

Lately I have been waking up at 6:30 a.m. I am not usually a morning person, in fact I love to sleep in. I think that is where my children get it from. They are extremely hard to wake up in the morning for school. I even went as far as saying that they are responsible for getting themselves up in the morning. It actually went good for a while. Then my husband, for the lack of words to use, flaked out. He started waking the kids up if they weren't up by a certain time. I told him that they were responsible and if they were late to school, it was their fault. I guess he is not ready to let them be responsible. He keeps saying that he doesn't want to be late for work; funny thing is that he comes right back home after dropping my son off and then he eats breakfast and gets his stuff ready. So I am not understanding his logic.

But I am making them get dressed before they eat breakfast, because otherwise they take too long at the table and again, it causes them to be late. I don't know how else to instill that they have to be on time. I can't keep yelling at them, it does no good. So, yes they do get dressed first and sometimes it takes them too long and they are not able to eat breakfast. I have made them cinnamon toast to take on the way to school, along with either tea or hot cocoa. My son would prefer coffee to tea, but I don't allow that. I'm sure soon enough he will be drinking coffee like there is no tomorrow. I guess that is his way of waking up. I know I need my tea to wake up in the morning, so I am no different.