Stewed Chicken
(This was my favorite of my grandmother's
recipes and is well known in my family as "Gonny's Chicken.")
One chicken, whole (remove the skin if you want, it will taste less sinful)
1 can black olives if they're small 2 if they're big
2 jars green olives with pimento (without juice or it will be too salty)
1 large chopped onion
10 cloves of garlic whole but peeled
1 8-oz can stewed tomatoes
25 sliced mushrooms
2 green peppers chopped
1 cup water or chicken broth
2 bay leaf
2 t. dried parsley, oregano, and basil
allow everyone to salt and pepper to taste
Put in large pot. Cover. Cook all ingredients simultaneously over low heat for 2 hours or until chicken is falling off the bone.
My grandmother taught me to cook with a pinch of this and a dash of that. She also taught me lots of whatever's in the icebox cooking. There are never any true amounts in this recipe - It's kind of a refrigerator delight. If you have carrots or other root vegetables throw them in. You can add potatoes or sweet potatoes to the mix. If you don't like peppers don't throw them in. The stewing in the vegetables is what makes this marvelous - and using different vegetables if you have them adds to the flavor. The one I wrote at the top is my personal favorite.
If you want a thicker gravy take the chicken out of the pot. Melt 2 Tablespoons of cornstarch in one tablespoon of cold water, add to broth in the pot and stir over medium low heat until the gravy thickens
Serve with Quinoa or rice and salad. If you eat potatoes it goes really well with mashed potatoes.
Depending on the size of the chicken it serves 4-6 people.
One chicken, whole (remove the skin if you want, it will taste less sinful)
1 can black olives if they're small 2 if they're big
2 jars green olives with pimento (without juice or it will be too salty)
1 large chopped onion
10 cloves of garlic whole but peeled
1 8-oz can stewed tomatoes
25 sliced mushrooms
2 green peppers chopped
1 cup water or chicken broth
2 bay leaf
2 t. dried parsley, oregano, and basil
allow everyone to salt and pepper to taste
Put in large pot. Cover. Cook all ingredients simultaneously over low heat for 2 hours or until chicken is falling off the bone.
My grandmother taught me to cook with a pinch of this and a dash of that. She also taught me lots of whatever's in the icebox cooking. There are never any true amounts in this recipe - It's kind of a refrigerator delight. If you have carrots or other root vegetables throw them in. You can add potatoes or sweet potatoes to the mix. If you don't like peppers don't throw them in. The stewing in the vegetables is what makes this marvelous - and using different vegetables if you have them adds to the flavor. The one I wrote at the top is my personal favorite.
If you want a thicker gravy take the chicken out of the pot. Melt 2 Tablespoons of cornstarch in one tablespoon of cold water, add to broth in the pot and stir over medium low heat until the gravy thickens
Serve with Quinoa or rice and salad. If you eat potatoes it goes really well with mashed potatoes.
Depending on the size of the chicken it serves 4-6 people.
The Tranquillity Initiative – Review by Martha A. Cheves, Author of Stir, Laugh, Repeat and Think With Your Taste Buds
According
to his records in the administration office, the young man, dressed in
the color-coded coveralls of a porter, was a civilian who had been
recruited by an independent contracting company from the Philippines.
In reality, he had been raised in the suburbs of Astrakhan and had
traveled to the Philippines to live with a distant cousin in hops that
he would be recruited to work in the American action. Because he was
wall-eyed, and darker than most of their local recruits, he appeared
unintelligent to the Americans. They never looked at him twice. In the
far corner of the Quonset hut, near the exit reserved for garbage
collection, the young man unobtrusively removed the two red, white and
blue
Tranquillity bombs from a regulation canvas shoulder bag. It was a
familiar bag, one that he – like the other native workers – used for
picking up garbage around the base. Quickly and skillfully, he
transferred the flag-colored bombs to the ragged native carrying case in
which he stored a warm jacket and his lunch. It was a tight fit
getting them in, but he managed. Stealing from the U.S. Air Force was a
well-organized activity at this base. The young man and his friends
had been taking bits and pieces of armament for months. To date, he had
been most proud of the small surface-to-air missile he had managed to
spirit off the base. He had believed that a theft of such gigantic
proportions would probably remain the high water mark of his life. He
had not counted on the portability of Tranquillity.
When it appears that the
war with Astrakham had no
end, a group of men inside the high loops of the US Government took it
upon themselves to re-up the Tranquillity Bomb. They all agreed that
this would be the best way to end the war as well as show others that
the US would prevail no matter what. The group had no doubts as to the
destruction that would be inflicted upon Astrakham if the Tranquillity
Bomb was used. This particular bomb was designed to silently disburse
the deadly disease known as Anthrax. The one thing the group didn’t
count on was theft of two of these deadly bombs.
The bombs looked like
bowling pins and decorated in red, white and blue were easily smuggled
out of the country and into New York City by a group of young people
posing as bowlers that carried their own balls as well as their own
‘lucky’ pins wherever they went to compete. What they didn’t expect was
to find the real threat of
the bombs. This came when one was opened in the attempt of removing
the explosives, which were non-existing. When they realized their
mistake, it was too late. Their fate and deaths were sealed. The only
thing left to do now was to take revenge on the US by dropping the 2nd bomb from one of New York’s highest buildings. This will be payback for the destruction inflicted upon Astrakham.
Senator Richland Powell
and CDC doctor Cassandra Williams find themselves in a race for not just
their own lives but the lives of millions as they attempt to find who
has the second bomb. In a city the size of New York, their chances are
slim. Powell feels there is a connection between the Anthrax in
Astrakham and that in New York but can’t quite prove it. Cassandra
feels the connection too, especially since it was her own grandfather
who invited the
Tranquillity Bomb. His interest in Anthrax flowed down to Cassandra as
well as her own father, making them two of the most renown experts in
the field. With that, Cassandra knew the two cases were connected. She
just had to prove it and find the other bomb before time runs out and
the terrorists have a chance to seek their revenge.
This book will scare the
heck out of you because it’s possible. It will scare the heck out of
you because it’s typical. It will scare the heck out of you because if
it happened the people of the US would most likely receive no warning.
This book has the making of a great movie! It’s simply so real that you
find yourself actually seeing the events as being possible. I really enjoyed this book.