Getting Creative with $5 Buck Clucks

Rotisserie chickens are ubiquitous these days -- Costco & BJ's, Safeway & Shaws -- even smaller, locally-based grocery store chains like our Sudbury Farms & Roche Brothers (owned by the same company, so someone please explain to me why two names) offers $5 Buck Cluck every Thursday.

Dinner's main dish all cooked up for you for just $5! What a deal!

Unfortunately, there are a finite number Thursday nights my family will willing eat the same ol' rotisserie chicken. Many weeks I skipped the chicken, but that seemed like a bargain missed and time-savings lost, so I made a quick, off-the-top-of-my-head list of things I could make with those chickens --

• enchiladas
• quesadillas
• soft tacos
• chicken noodle soup.

That first week we had soft tacos.

It was a good start, but not terribly creative, so I flipped through a few of my favorite cookbooks and found --

• Kashah Chicken Vegetable Soup with Couscous
• Tortilla Soup
• Raj Chicken Soup
• White Chicken Chili -- 

Slow cooker recipes using pre-cooked chicken!
The next week I grabbed two more chickens, cut 'em up Thursday, then Friday morning I filled up the slow cooker with a mega-batch of White Chicken Chili.

That evening the boys' school had it's annual skate night at an outdoor rink -- it was a balmy 23 degrees that night, and the thermoses full of steaming hot Chicken Chili were a huge hit with my guys. (Recipe to follow.)

Last Thursday the Handsome Husband was working late, so I closed the kitchen and let the boys choose our dinner date destination, but I didn't skip gettin' a couple of Clucks!

Cut up, labeled & stowed in the basement freezer -- the way I figure, you can never have too much cooked cluck at the ready to toss in the slow cooker or pot, slice up to put on a nice mixed green salad, or dice up for some good ol' fashioned chicken salad.

This week's cluck is going into tonight's Kasbah Chicken Vegetable Soup with Couscous.

But I need your help -- my cluck list is still pretty short -- please share any cluck-worthy recipes you have in your culinary arsenal!