Chicken enchiladas are nearly a comfort food. They come together quickly, can be prepared cheaply, are nice and cheesy and hot and filling and tasty and a run-on sentence. I haven’t specifically talked about comfort food in a while (though the Potage is a good example), but this definitely fits my criteria.
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If you think about it, for a dish that is named after the cooking process, Chicken Adobo is surprisingly non-descriptive. ‘Adobo’ in Spanish refers to a sauce or marinade, but gives no indication as to what kind of marinade or as to the preparation or flavors of the final dish (kind of like ’salsa’ and [...] Making another batch of chicken stock this weekend left me with a cooked whole chicken to cut up and use in various ways. Obviously, you don’t have to use a whole chicken each time you make stock. Normally I freeze cut up chicken parts and, after collecting bits from three of four, I use those [...] Beer-can chicken is a fun way to cook a whole chicken on a grill. It’s more than just a novel trick, and it will impress your non-epicurean-minded friends. The purpose of the beer-can is to add flavor and retain moisture throughout the entire bird. Different beers bring their own unique flavors. For instance, stout beers [...]
Categories: Main Dish
Have you ever had a recipe that was supposed to be easy but caused you no end of doubt and worry? I just had that experience with this recipe and it was terrifying. As I was cooking I kept asking, “Are these supposed to look like this?” “Is this dough too thin?” “Isn’t this supposed [...] A few days ago I mentioned that I made a chicken soup. I highly reccomend making your own stock for this. It’s neither hard nor particularly difficult to make your own stock. And because I was a bit under the weather when I made this particular version, I took extra pains to make sure it [...]
Categories: Techniques
Over the weekend I was tired, I didn’t feel very good, and my throat hurt. I didn’t want to cook anything complicated. But I wanted something classic and nutritious to help me feel better. I looked in my pantry and found some orzo. I had some chicken stock, a couple carrots, and some celery on [...] This dish is very easy to prepare and comes out great. When you are looking to cook something tasty, but don’t want to spend much time, broiled chicken fits the bill. That crisp skin and tender meat tastes as good as it looks. Pan-roast chicken with Lemon and Herbs. The best of a roast chicken and a pan sauce combined.
Categories: Epicurean Eats
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