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Default Chicken Enchiladas

On Friday, March 20, 2015 at 4:22:37 PM UTC-6, Julie Bove wrote:
> "rosie" > wrote in message
> ...
> On Friday, March 20, 2015 at 6:24:34 AM UTC-5, Julie Bove wrote:
> > I foolishly bought a bag of rotisserie chicken off the bone from Costco.
> > One person in this house has refused to eat it, even though she has never
> > tried it. I have bought rotisserie chickens (from other stores) twice,
> > although not in recent years and nobody liked them. I can't eat this
> > stuff
> > either. Has either corn or potato in it, in the form of starch. The
> > person
> > who is refusing to eat it is also refusing to eat any enchiladas I might
> > make. This is frustrating to me because she keeps boasting about the
> > really
> > good ones that her friend's mom makes. I did ask her to get the recipe
> > but
> > she won't.
> >
> > I have made a lot of enchiladas over the years in a variety of ways and
> > she
> > has managed to hate them all. OTOH, I have always liked what I made.
> > Husband usually likes them so... I found a recipe that calls for using
> > cottage cheese inside. I also have excess cottage cheese because... It
> > was
> > being eaten like crazy until I bought a large amount of it at Costco. And
> > now it isn't getting eaten.
> >
> > Has anyone made chicken enchiladas with cottage cheese in them? I have
> > since found different varieties of recipes but the one I think I will use
> > calls for the cottage cheese to be mixed with sour cream and some
> > seasonings. I will have to figure out what to do with the chicken though
> > as
> > the recipe calls for me to cook the chicken with taco seasoning. Since I
> > have pre-cooked chicken, that won't work. It does call for chilies. I
> > only
> > have mild ones. Perhaps I will look for hot ones. Husband likes spicy.
> >
> > And then, I will stick the rest of the chicken in the freezer and try to
> > find some other use for it. She who will not eat it will also not eat
> > things like pot pie, soup or chicken and noodles. So I guess I am SOL on
> > that front.

>
> To answer your question, I know nothing about chicken enchiladas with
> cottage cheese in them. They may exist and be very good, I have just not
> heard of them. As for uses of the chicken, do not know if your family likes
> it, but chicken and dumplings is usually a hit in my house. Good luck.
>
> ---
>
> That is a food that I used to like but given my food intolerances, not
> likely something I could eat now. Moot point for me anyway since I can't
> eat the chicken. Daughter would eat the dumplings only and nothing else from
> it. And husband doesn't like dumplings.


Why do you buy "problem foods" that most don't like? Must be like beating one's head against a brick wall.

Khrist in our family...we ate everything put on the table or we friggin well starved. Food was not to be wasted. Your food intolerances would soon have been forgotten if you'd had parents like we had.