Category: Chicken & Turkey

  • Chicken Piccata for 2

    Chicken Piccata for 2

    An oldie but a goodie. Pound a chicken breast (or slice it in half if you’re lazy like me and it’s partially frozen), salt and pepper, dredge in flour then fry in some olive oil until done. Take it out of the pan. Add juice from half a lemon, 1/4 cup or so white wine,…

  • Sauteed Chicken with Olives, Capers, and Onions

    Sauteed Chicken with Olives, Capers, and Onions

    The first time I made a piccata sauce I was up at Sea Ranch with a friend, staying in a rental house. We had some leftover boneless pork chops and I searched through some Internet recipe sites looking for ideas. For some reason we had capers, and an onion, and a lemon. It’s tough cooking…

  • Catalina Apricot Chicken

    Catalina Apricot Chicken

    I was looking for a way to bake some bone-in chicken last night and wanted something other than my usuals so went thumbing through a few “community fundraiser” cookbooks. I had picked up half a dozen of them at the last library book sale for about 25 cents each. Eventually I’ll donate most of the…

  • Fried Chicken, Asparagus, Baked Potato

    Fried Chicken, Asparagus, Baked Potato

    I had bought real buttermilk recently. (Usually I use the powdered stuff for pancakes and coffee cakes and such.) I had also thawed a whole chicken. I was originally planning on roasting it whole, but upon spying the buttermilk I remembered a great chicken cutlet recipe with buttermilk and thought I could do something similar…

  • Oven Fried Chicken

    Oven Fried Chicken

    Rather than buy those packaged flavored crumbs to bake your chicken or pork in, make up your own flavored breadcrumbs. This makes enough to season two chickens, cut into pieces. Mix it up ahead of time and keep in the pantry.