Studies have shown a great many home refrigerators' temperature are way off. Too warm. I wonder if that's not a large part of it, plus the coating mix. I don't really love chicken but I do roast one about every 6 weeks, primarily for stock, and I don't find that it tastes much different the next day or two. But I also don't like white meat, so that often goes into a chicken curry salad or something. But I have to say that even when I was on Dr. Pat's diet for a while, I broiled the chicken breasts for four days at a time, and they were just about the same on day four as on day 1, even if I got lazy and micro-ed them. My fridge is stuck at 34º, so maybe that helps, and I store in glasslock. I do usually buy Murray's chicken, for whatever that's worth.

A wild rice and chicken soup, to help use up leftovers. Chicken and Wild Rice Soup (Better Homes & Gardens) 2 14-1/2-ounce cans chicken broth 1 cup sliced carrot 1/2 cup sliced celery 1/3 cup wild rice, uncooked 1/3 cup sliced leek or green onion 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme, crushed 2 tablespoons margarine or butter 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour 1 cup half-and-half or milk 1-1/2 cups chopped cooked chicken 2 tablespoons dry sherry Thin carrot peel strips (optional) Snipped fresh thyme (optional) 1 Mix broth, carrot, celery, uncooked rice, leek or green onions, dried thyme, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper in a saucepan. Bring to boiling; reduce heat. Cover and simmer 50 or until rice is tender. 2 Meanwhile, melt margarine or butter; stir in flour. Stir in half-and-half or milk. Cook and stir until bubbly. Cook and stir 1 minute more. Slowly add half-and-half mixture to rice mixture, stirring constantly. Stir in chicken and sherry; heat through. If desired, garnish with carrot peel strips and fresh thyme. Makes 4 servings.

Islay Corbel "Lovely as always, but what we really want to know is who you shared the dishes with:)" Thanks! Very simple. I share my meals with everyone here. Everyone is my Valentine. weet_betsy "Your beautiful work is an inspiration on this cold, cold day." Thanks. The more I share, the better I get. dcarch

Thanks Rita Re alternate cooking weeks: some things you do for maintaining marital harmony :) because our grocery shopping, meal palnning, our cooking styles and our clean up routines are so opposite to each other.. in fact that's true for a lot of how we both think and work... so different .... reminds me when we were at Sedona many years ago and got our auras read(it's the new age method where they read the energy you generate as colors ). And our aura reader was amazed that DH and I were Married because our auras were so contrasting, none of our colors matched..except this teeny tiny bit of green ..and she claimed that's what made us click in the cosmic sense. We both had a good laugh about it afterwards anyways back on the kitchen : our current kitchen is one cook\one eat space. Wonder if our cookin schedules will change with our new kitchen ....