Category: Chicken & Turkey
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Baked 5 Spice Chicken Legs
This chicken was from HapaBento’s 5 Spice Baked Chicken. I don’t pack proper Bentos but love the idea and enjoy the generally quick and easy recipes and the philosophy of eating multiple colors at each meal. (As an example of my not proper Bentos, today’s lunch was leftover cheese pizza, grape tomatoes, and sliced apple.…
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Turkey Enchiladas
What to do with Leftover Turkey: Turkey Enchiladas When you’re tired of turkey hash and turkey soup and turkey sandwiches, make these turkey enchiladas! Totally not “leftovers” but just a great Mexican-oriented meal. I made half green sauce and half red sauce enchiladas. The green sauce was store-bought, the red sauce was this enchilada sauce…
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Thai Dinner Salad
I wanted a light green salad to go with the chicken curry in coconut milk I was making. This dressing recipe was quite good, but a bit salty. I think next time I’ll cut down on the fish sauce, but even though it was a bit salty it was still good. And it was the…
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Tokyo Fried Chicken
These were really good! I wish I had the shiso leaves to garnish, as suggested in Japanese Women Don’t Get Old or Fat: Secrets of My Mother’s Tokyo Kitchen, where I got this recipe. The chicken is briefly marinated , then drained, tossed with cornstarch (or potato starch), then fried. She calls for 4 chicken…
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Chicken Sate on a George Foreman Grill
Last year a client gave me some Penzey spices for a holiday gift and I’m just getting around to opening some of them. Last night we tried the Sate seasoning, which has salt, brown sugar, garlic, onion, coriander, shallots, ginger, tumeric, sweet paprika, Ancho pepper, galangal, cayenne red pepper and lemon grass in it! Whew!…