Mayo?

[telophase]

We have a lot of a nice homemade mayonnaise in the fridge because it was simpler to make it than to go back out to the store.* And there’s a lot, like close to 2 cups, because I couldn’t make less. I tried, and it failed to emulsify.

So! What do you cook that takes a lot of mayo besides potato and egg salad? We have favorite recipes for those already. I can’t use it for sweet things like mayonnaise cake** because it’s lightly flavored with garlic.

*Power was out for a good 12 hours or so at the house while we were gone, and there’s various things in the fridge that I didn’t trust, including the opened mayonnaise. The door would have been opened by the petsitter getting the open can of cat food out.

** If you’re not aware of mayo-based baking, the resulting things do not taste of mayo. It basically replaces the fat and some liquid in the batter.

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Comments

[jenett]

The liquid for breading chicken? Salad dressing?

[telophase]

Hahaha we have a ton of leftover popcorn chicken from a local place that has to be laundering money or something because $8 gets me a large styrofoam container FILLED TO THE BRIM with popcorn chicken and a handful of fries--I mean it, the top of the styrofoam is melting from the heat of the chicken nuggets touching it! Each order provides at least 3 meals for us, more if we incorporate it creatively into other things.

But I found a recipe I made for lunch today for a Tex-Mex-inspired pasta casserole that utilizes leftover fried chicken, combined it with the leftover taco meat we had from a couple of days ago, and made that for lunch using 1/2 cup of the mayonnaise instead of sour cream since we'd forgotten to get sour cream at the store. myrialux loved it and I liked it--I think I need to zhuzh it up a bit--so overall a success, and it used up a third of the leftover mayo.

[umadoshi]

a Tex-Mex-inspired pasta casserole that utilizes leftover fried chicken

Oh, that does sound good!

[telophase]

Here’s the base recipe. I close to tripled the seasoning amounts and added a heaping tablespoon of our favorite chili powder. Didn’t use the seasoning packet because I was dumping in already-seasoned taco meat as well.

https://togetherasfamily.com/fiesta-chicken-casserole/

We served with taco chips to add crunch, and I think I’d have liked some fresh elements—tomatoes, cilantro, a squeeze of lime juice, and maybe a dollop of sour cream to add extra tang.

[umadoshi]

Thank you! *makes notes*

[telophase]

I should mention that we cut the recipe in half, because we’ll never finish an 8-serving dish! And I used frozen corn, and tipped in the whole can of beans instead of half a can because I didn’t want half a can of beans hanging around.

[umadoshi]

Ah! Also good to know. ^_^