Category: Chicken & Turkey

  • Warm Spiced Chicken Salad Recipe

    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…

  • Chicken Enchiladas Verde for 4

    Chicken Enchiladas Verde for 4

    Because I’m close to being a Pam Anderson groupie, I bought Perfect One-Dish Dinners: All You Need for Easy Get-Togethers, sight unseen. Didn’t even ask my library to get a copy first!  Her books have never disappointed me and only once can I remember making a recipe that wasn’t superb. (And it was superb later…

  • Chicken Under a Brick, Roast Potatoes and Salad

    Chicken Under a Brick, Roast Potatoes and Salad

    Flattening a whole chicken by cutting out the backbone and flattening it a bit makes it cook more quickly.  I’ve done this before, with a recipe from Jacques Pepin that was browned on the stove and then finished in the oven.   Tonight I did the same technique, but just rubbed some salt, pepper, granulated garlic…

  • Sweet Potato and Chicken Curry Recipe

    Sweet Potato and Chicken Curry Recipe

    My mom sent me a recipe for this, from which I made my grocery list and menu plan. Then tonight when I set out to start dinner I couldn’t find her recipe!  I did find this one from Cooking Light and am thinking it was awfully close to hers so started from there.  I know…

  • Chicken Soup with Rice in November

    Chicken Soup with Rice in November

    Do you remember the Maurice Sendak book about the boy who loves chicken soup with rice all year long? I told you onceI told you twiceAll seasons of the year are niceFor eating chicken soup with rice My girls learned that poem many years ago.  And November is definitely a good month for chicken soup…