Make Multiple Meals With These Chicken, Potatoes, Salmon Recipes

My friend Martina texted me a few weeks ago: “I’m SO sick of cooking. What can I make that will last three days?”

I thought about this for a while. I thought about all the folks who are not used to cooking and doing dishes nightly and planning a week’s worth of meals. Many of us are still home cooking every single day even as some states open up, and restaurants and take-out become more of a norm once again.

I wrote Martina back with a few ideas and thought others might benefit as well. This segment focuses on a master recipe and then gives you several variations for ways to use the leftovers so that they don’t feel like “leftovers,” but rather a whole new take on a familiar theme.

Let’s start with what’s always popular: chicken.

Roasting a whole chicken is one of the great, classic recipes. But truth be told, roasting two chickens takes no more work than one. With this idea in mind — cook once, enjoy many times — why not roast two chickens? (Unless, of course, you are only cooking for one or two, in which case