Shopping at Costco.

I need to reenlist with my Costco membership. It relapsed a couple of years ago.

Cereal is really a good buy. Snacks and bread are good deals (though I can find good enough deals for bread from the grocery store near where I live).

Costco is really good for cleaning supplies and paper products. My personal problem is convenience as its a half hour walk away from where I live and its hard to lug a load of bulk items via a personal hand shopping cart the distance since I don't have a car.

Still, I think the membership is worth the bulk rate discount.

Morgan?

Yes, jcboy, or as he is commonly known as, the loon

he seems like the ikea type to me...

Never happen, you will never catch him there and I know better to suggest it.

I can't eat meatballs anymore, so it isn't worth the effort to get there now.

and they don't have one anywhere near me. nor a Costco...

I've generally found in these stores that the meat quality is a bit better. Also, they are generally cheaper - although when the grocery store has a sale on meat, the grocery store's sales price is typically lower than the box stores.

So if you want a particular cut of meat and there is no sale at the grocery store, then these stores tend to be less.

My easiest recipe for boneless breast of chicken (that keeps it moist), cover in mayo and coat in italien flavored bread crumbs. I bake, you could fry if you prefer. Or if you like it a little more crispy you could try baking with some oil in the pan and then flip.

Chicken that way is so good. I add worcestershire to the mayo.

One of Mr.Irish's favorites is when I make unfried chicken.

I prefer soaking in buttermilk, tobasco and lemon juice.

Maybe I'll try some after all. Some of these recipes sound good. Thanks!

I've just always found chicken breasts to be the blandest part of the chicken. It's the leftover part that usually goes into my soup just so it has other flavors to round it out.

I haven't made picatta or marsala for a long time so they'd be good for that.

And parma

Back a million and one years ago, I used to make someone's recipe of chicken supremes. Claiborne? Silver Palette I? Dunno.

Anyway, it was easy. Take a few chicken breasts, remove the skins and bones, leaving the supremes (as they were called then).. basically a big piece and smaller piece, from each breast half.

Melt butter (I forget how much, but enough for the chicken to fully swim in) in a pan - I remember using a enamelled cast iron smallish pan with high sides. Heat butter with medium flame, add salt and pepper, add chicken supremes, cook (5 minutes tops?), remove chicken, slurp down.

If I did it now, I wouldn't add salt if my butter had salt in it, I'd still use pepper, and I'd probably play with spices, maybe a dab of hot madras curry powder.

edit - and since I haven't seen the recipe for years, now I'd probably put the flame at medium-low.

So, now I'll look in my cookbook closet and see if I have a similar recipe in any of my old books - to give a better sense of amounts.

I'm no longer wildly avoidant of butter, do use it once in a while, like on bread coming out of the oven, though my primary fat by far is olive oil.
Also, I seem to remember that you could reuse/store the cooking butter, once you took out the supremes with a slotted spoon.

aha - here's a similar (but different) recipe by Julia Child:

http://amandascookin.com/2009/08/chicken-breasts-sauteed-in-butter.html

hers has clarified butter, and the saute is in a shallower pan, the supremes turned over.

When I get back from Orlando I'll find some recipes. Chick gumbo, chicken burritos, stews, so much you can do with chick skinless chicken breast.

But you can do all that with a regular roast chicken leftovers too.

I was thinking Julia Child when you first posted. She did love her butter. I have one of her cookbooks that recommends frying hamburgers in butter!

I might have been able to spare the calories 20 years ago but I'm afraid that stuff catches up to me quick these days.

Sounds delicious, though.

<sigh>

Oh you can, but I like the fact that they come individually wrapped so you can freeze them.

Yeah... that truly is convenient.

Mine just come in a bag...from the freezer section. Not wrapped or anything. I just take out ever how many I need at a time -- they don't stick together. I don't think I've even seen the individually wrapped ones.