For those of you (and you know who you are) who came in here looking for a thrill, this is not about your sick sexual fantasies. Go now.
I’m waiting.
Now, for those of you who know that the only chicken thighs I could possibly be talking aobut are the boneless, skinless kind you can get for about $4.50 at the local supermarket. Typically, you get about 10 for this price. I guess chicken thighs are pretty cheap meat considering. Hmm, cheap meat. Not very appetizing when you put it that way, but what the hell. I’ts not like I’m cooking you people dinner or anything. In any event, here’s what I’ve learned about chicken thighs:
They rule. Cheap, easy to make, tasty delicious, and so versatile you can use them in just about any dish imaginable. Well, maybe not that many, but a whole bunch. You couldn’t, for example, use them in a dish called filet of tuna because they’re neither filets nor tuna. I think you see my point though.
The kids will eat them and never put up a fuss. There is a caveat to this one. See #4 below.
Did I mention cheap?
When making Cajun Chicken thighs with red peppers and tomatoes do not tell the visiting child guest that you’re having monkey brains for dinner. She will beleive you, especially when you unwrap the tin foil. When opened, you are presented with a kind of greyish peice of meat that has blackish-red cajun spices crusted on top and little red peices of pepper and tomato floating around in a reddish sauce. It actually looks like what I’d imagine a monkey brain to look like.
I probably should have realized before that the poor kid might beleive me. But my kids so rarely beleive me when I say something like that I figured that my little cousin would take it with a grain of salt too.
How wrong I was. There were actual tears for the “poor little monkeys” and much gagging and refusal to try it, even after I explained that it was chicken. She wound up with a grilled cheese sandwich and Welbywife paying her much attention while sending nasty scowls in my direction.
My aunt, who I love dearly, has promised me revenge. This is a terrifying thought because shes easily more vicious than your average Third-world dictator. We’re supposed to have dinner at her house this weekend.
Anybody know a good excuse I can use to get out of it?
I used to have chicken thighs before I bought the Thighmaster[sup]TM[/sup]. Now they’re more like turkey thighs. Not so much to look at, but just as yummy.
Chix thighs are GREAT in curries. Better than breasts.
You can make a curry out of any ol veggies in the fridge (really! It’s a dish that you can get rid of all of your leftover veggies easily), but this is what I generally use:
A few potatoes, 1 sliced super-thin, others cubed
A couple of carrots, sliced
Zucchini or eggplant, 1cm thick slices
1 large sliced onion
?green peppers or mushrooms or broccoli or celery or leeks or radishes or parsnip or beets or squash or whatever? sliced
Large Lovin’ spoonful of curry powder
Large Lovin’ spoonful of Cumin powder
1/2 cup to 1 cup chicken broth
Meat from 4 to 6 chix thighs
Quick I-have-no-time-to-cook-but-am-hungry: Throw it all in a pot with some corn-starch to thicken it and bring to a boil. Cook uncovered and start to make rice, when rice is done, check the potato chunks, serve when they are cooked through.
Longer, better method:
stir fry the zukes or eggplant with olive oil until they are soft. Remove to a holding bowl. Do the same with the other veggies except the onions and carrots and potatoes. Stir-fry the onions and carrots together with the spices and only a little oil for a few minutes. It should look like mud covered onions. Add in all of the cooked veggies and the chicken thighs and the broth and the potatoes. Simmer for an hour or two (seriously). Serve on rice.
In a frying pan, fry them for a few minutes until golden brown, throw in a handful of rice and a can of either cream of chicken or cream of mushroom soup and let simmer for 45 minutes to 1 hour.
The rice will be cooked and the chicken so tender it falls apart. Serve with more rice, or over noodles is tasty.
Sorry Casey1505, I have completely seperated my sexual fantasies from my wife’s breasts now. We have a 9 month old daughter, and those things are HERS. I am not to touch them or gaze longingly at them, they are not for me. They are larger now, but really, I don’t get randy over them. My daughter has made her claim to them, and I am not even going to try and hassle her about it.
So, for now, chicken thighs are better than breasts. Now, curvy hips and a willing demeanor? That is another story…
I’ve done this with boneless, skinless chicken breasts, sometimes adding some onion, garlic and veggies. I’ll have to try it with the thighs I’ve got in the freezer. (JuanitaTech, I got them on sale at Dominick’s a few weeks ago.)
I think you need to work a compromise here. You’re wife presumably has at least two breasts, whilst your daughter is most likely to only have one mouth. So that should, hypothetically, leave at least one breast free at all times. Voila! Problem solved.
