Jun 18 2015
I had mowed grass Monday but mowed today since its more rain for the week end. It was a nice day to be outside. I cooked inside though since I had some jowl bacon I wanted to do in my new DeBuyer skillet for a first cook after seasoning it. It’s a good thing though since a short downpour came in as I was fixing supper.
Our son had started a new job June the first and his wife’s car had a low tire so she took my truck to work. We took her car to the local tire place and they had to put a new tire on. They have a baby sitter 3 days a week for the grandson and we have him the other two days. He had the baby sitter today and when he and his Mom came to pick up the car they decided to stay and eat with us.
I used two skillets for this but can be all done in one. I had wanted to fry the bacon in my new DeBuyer pan and didn’t want to do the whole cook in it. After I got the bacon done I used my Lodge 10 inch skillet. The daughter in law didn’t want any bacon so I left some off of part of it for her. I buttered some crusty bread, added some Penzey’s sandwich sprinkle and toasted it under the broiler.
This was the first time I tried this and everyone loved it. The grandson loves rice dishes. It was good enough I wrote up a recipe for it. Doing this on the stove top makes it a quick and easy meal to make.
Smokin Don
Recipe:
Skillet chicken cheese bacon rice dinner
Pulled chicken, smoked or rotissororie. about 2 cups
4 to 5 slices jowl or thick cut bacon
3 cups cooked Zatarain’s yellow rice
1 packet of Pioneer Country Gravy mix or white sauce
1 medium sweet onion sliced and quartered
2 or 3 garlic cloves diced small
½ to 1/3 cup extra sharp white cheddar cheese
Shredded cheddar for the top
Cook your rice and brown the bacon in a cast iron skillet ahead of time. Pour off the bacon grease leaving about 2 tablespoons in the skillet. Make the country gravy according package, or make some white sauce, stir in the sharp cheddar to melt and set aside.
Sautee the onions until getting a little brown then add the garlic and cook a minute or two. Add in the shredded chicken and heat through. Add the rice and stir to mix up. Add in the gravy, I used about 1 ½ cups. Stir to mix and heat a few minutes.
Top with some shredded cheddar, break up the bacon and add it to the top. Place under a hot broiler to melt the cheese. Serve along with some toasted garlic bread and enjoy.
Doing this on the stove top makes it pretty quick for an easy and fast meal. The Zatarains has seasoning and some red and green peppers in it and the bacon is salty enough you shouldn’t need any more seasoning. I think I would have liked some more green peppers in it. Some may want to add hot sauce.
