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Roast Sticky Chicken for Chicken Tacos

June 28, 2010 by Ellen · 1 Comment 

Rub on a fantastic spice mix, then slow roast your chicken to perfection.  The original recipe for this “Sticky Chicken” calls for cooking it 5 hours at 225. I upped the temperature to 300 because I was a bit “short” on time and cooked it about 3.5 hours.   You can go follow the link for [...]

Church’s / KFC’s Fried and Oven-Baked Chicken

May 25, 2010 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

My daughter asked if I’d make up some fried chicken tonight as she and her friends wanted to do a “party” at lunch and have everyone bring something to eat together like a picnic.  This is a cross of two popular restaurant versions of friend chicken. The seasonings are a Kentucky Fried Chicken lookalike and [...]

Roast Split Chicken with Mustard Sauce

May 10, 2010 by Ellen · 1 Comment 

I had done a variation of this mustard-coated butterflied chicken a while back, not following Pepin’s recipe exactly but using another blogger’s version of it as inspiration, then butterflying the chicken and roasting it according to Pam Anderson’s suggestions. Having watched Pepin butterfly the chicken on the video made things much easier!  You can watch [...]

Butterflied Roast Chicken: New to Me

April 12, 2010 by Ellen · 2 Comments 

I went to our farmer’s market yesterday with a friend and vowed, again, to make this a Saturday habit. I came home with kale, carrots, strawberries, asparagus, tomatoes (a disappointment, but still better than grocery store ones), fingerling potatoes, and some fantastic mustard! The lady who sold the mustard said to rub it on a [...]

How to Roast a Chicken

March 21, 2010 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

I swung by Trader Joe’s today and they had free range chickens for a much more reasonable price than the local Safeway. I changed my dinner plans and went for a simple roast chicken dinner. Good idea since my college daughter decided to come home for dinner! So there was plenty and we’ll have one [...]

Chicken Biryani with Patak Curry Paste

March 10, 2010 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

At our local Indian grocery store, I found the Pataks Biryani Paste 10oz that Jamie Oliver mentions in his Jamie’s Food Revolution: Rediscover How to Cook Simple, Delicious, Affordable Meals. One jar makes 3 batches of curry with 1-2 pounds of meat in each batch, so plenty to feed 4-6 folks. Last night I made [...]

Chicken Biryani Curry

February 13, 2010 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

I made some more great Indian curries the other night. The basic recipe comes from Jamie’s Food Revolution: Rediscover How to Cook Simple, Delicious, Affordable Meals, one of my favorite new cookbooks. The chicken curry is pictured to the left here. To the right is Vegetable Jalfrezi. 1 pound chicken tenders, cut into 1 inch [...]

Roast Chicken with Really Good Gravy

February 8, 2010 by Ellen · 1 Comment 

As I mentioned in the post on roast vegetables, I’d really enjoyed watching Oliver’s Twist 2 , which I got from Netflix. (Note: link is an affiliate link to Amazon.) Roast chicken is good. And even if you do nothing more than rub a little olive oil or butter, sprinkle some salt and pepper, maybe [...]

Chicken Tortilla Soup Recipe

January 20, 2010 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

This chicken tortilla soup has a nice kick to it but not too much. The avocados smooth it out, the lime juice adds a tartness, and the chips add a nice crunch. Don’t salt the broth much as the chips do that for you I find! I started with some great homemade chicken broth and [...]

Jamie Oliver’s Chicken Tikka Masala but Made with Chicken Biryani Curry Paste’

January 17, 2010 by Ellen · 3 Comments 

I spent some time in a local Indian grocery store today and found the Patak Curry I wanted, but not the exact variation. Note that the link is to Amazon’s page of all the Patak curry paste. I am ready to order more!  They cost more than at my local grocer but they have all [...]

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