Category: Chicken & Turkey
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Chicken Thighs Braised in Red Wine (aka Coq au Vin)
From How to Cook Everything, Completely Revised 10th Anniversary Edition: 2,000 Simple Recipes for Great Food but I only used boneless skinless chicken thighs and about half a chicken’s worth I estimated, so halved the recipes. Also, I didn’t have small boiling onions so just sliced a regular yellow onion. Skipped his suggestion of dried…
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Grilled Dinner: Chicken, Potatoes & Crookneck Squash
It was hot here yesterday. I wandered the garden to see what I could use for dinner, along with the chicken I was marinating in some Greek herbs, olive oil and lemon juice. Picked a crookneck squash, some tomatoes, a cucumber and some basil. I am making freezer pickles with the cucumber (plus an onion…
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Rice Salad with Chicken, Black Beans and Feta
During the summer especially, I like having a salad or two in the fridge to serve as side dishes for dinner or a main dish for lunch. A good friend served this Rice Salad with Chicken, Black Beans and Feta when I was over at her house for lunch and shared the recipe. As she…
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Sometimes You Just Want Roast Chicken
The weather here has gone from 99 degrees last week to nearly an inch of rain yesterday! It doesn’t usually rain in June here. If it does, it sprinkles. This was a full-out downpour that made my back gutter overflow because the water was coming down so fast! A nice warm dinner with chicken and…
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Warm Spiced Chicken Salad Recipe
Warm chicken on cool lettuce makes a great combo: Chinese chicken salad, Caesar salad with grilled chicken, etc. This chicken is rubbed with cumin, coriander, salt and pepper before being cooked. The dressing has balsamic vinegar, sesame oil, peanut oil and sliced scallions and the salad is topped with sliced radishes. My teenager loved it…