Chicken Thighs and Culture Class

Big doings for Maddie coming up in February. German is the language of the month at ACS, and Maddie is considered one of their German-speaking students. So in Language and Culture class, she received a little smiley face button that she gets to wear every day to let everyone know that she can speak the language of the month. She is so excited.

So there is a cut of meat here that I don't think is widely available in the US. They have chicken thigh filets (pronounced FIL-ettes) here. These are boneless, skinless cuts of chicken thigh meat. I found a simple recipe in a magazine that looked good, so I got some of these chicken thigh things and made it. The sauce was yummy and it went great with the fresh green beans that were also part of the recipe, but the chicken! It was fully cooked and the meat was fresh, but I couldn't quite put my finger on why I didn't like it. Skip suggested it was a texture thing and I think he was right. I'm going to try the recipe again sometime with good old chicken breast strips or filets. We just had it last night and today I was thumbing through a magazine and found two more chicken thigh filet recipes. I'm gonna pass.

Every magazine or newspaper you pick up here has all sorts of tips on how to be more frugal during these credit crunch days. Some of them have good advice, but other times I have to laugh because what the writer is calling being frugal is how I shop (live) all the time, and I think we all know I'm not going to win any awards in that area. No wonder the the world is such a financial mess!

I've been working on summer camp curriculum for Ferncliff this summer. It's a good exercise to get me thinking like a preacher again. I'm enjoying it. Maddie is signed up for the last week of July and is looking forward to it.