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Posts Tagged: Chicken

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Oct 11

Spicy Chicken Pasta

When I was right out of college and teaching myself to cook, I tried to reverse-engineer Ruby Tuesday’s Sonora Chicken Pasta. I hate to date myself, but this was back in the days of Web 1.0 before seemingly everything was posted online. I didn’t want to literally recreate the dish, as I found the sauce too rich. I just wanted to perfect that creamy taste and texture that coated the noodles and tickled the back of your throat with a slight hint of spiciness. I never wrote down the recipe I eventually worked out, and it’s been at least five years since I last made it. The wife has been requesting it for months, so I thought I’d finally perfect the dish and record the recipe for posterity.

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29
Jun 11

Creamy Chicken Salad

As I’ve mentioned before, the wife doesn’t like hard-boiled eggs. Since the standard Southern recipe for chicken salad is swimming in chopped eggs and mustard, I’ve had to develop another recipe. This one comes out so creamy and mild that we usually eat it on crackers like a dip instead of spread over white bread.

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28
May 11

Rosemary Chicken Grilled Under A Brick

I’ve been trying to get the wife to eat more meat on the bone. I’m convinced that bone-in fare is simple more flavorful than its boneless counterparts. She’s okay with barbecued ribs, because the bone is so big, but she gets squeamish when the bones are small. I’ve been making lots of bone-in pork chops lately and she’s gotten more accustomed to eating that way. I figured it was finally time to go for the gold and cook a whole chicken. It resulted in the best roasted/grilled chicken I’ve ever eaten.

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31
Mar 11

Chicken & Apple Sausage

I recently made a bunch of sausages at home, the most unusual of which was chicken & apple. It’s basically just chicken thighs, a granny smith apple, some chardonnay, and few spices, but it combines to make a very tender sausage that’s not too sweet.

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Aug 10

Chicken Marsala

I’ve been trying to get some of my pan sauce recipes online lately so the wife can cook them when I’m not around. Chicken Marsala is her favorite.

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2
Jul 10

Greek Grilled Chicken

I’ve never been a big fan of grilled chicken, especially at restaurants. You end up paying too much money for an extra thick, chewy chicken breast that tastes like water with a thin coating of whatever sauce you thought would make this version of charred bird would taste better than the last. To break that sordid cycle, I always do one of three things to chicken breasts; I stuff them, halve them, or pound them flat. The flavor of grilled chicken is on the outside, so I either add flavor to the middle, decrease the thickness and/or increase the surface area. This time, I used small, tender chicken breasts and flattened them before grilling.

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Aug 09

Chicken Prosciutto

Every weekend, my wife and I like to make a big meal that we can use for lunches throughout the work week. Usually it’s something like spaghetti or lasagna, or sometimes a big pot of soup. This weekend, we decided to make some chicken prosciutto and roast some scallop squash we bought at a roadside stand on Friday afternoon.

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This recipe is like a hybrid between chicken saltimbocca and cordon bleu.

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Apr 09

Grilled Chicken Caprese Salad

This weekend, my wife and I dropped by the local Farmer’s Market to kill some time before the post office opened. I bought some ground beef and pork sausage, as well as the requisite peppers to make chili on Saturday. My wife noticed that they had some raw milk, so we bought a gallon and decided to make some more mozzarella. On Sunday, I used my kit and made a softer, fresher-tasting cheese than last time:

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