This Easier Than Stir-Fry Chicken is from Linda Eckhardt’s “Feed Your Family on $10 a Day” cookbook, which is out of print at this point but pick it up used if you can find a copy. She said the recipe started as a plum stir-fry chicken but sometimes she didn’t have plum jam. And she…
Chicken & Turkey
Chicken and Leek Pie from Nigel Slater
This chicken and leek pie is from Nigel Slater’s cookbook Notes from the Larder: A Kitchen Diary with Recipes. It’s organized seasonally but also has a good index so you can browse that way if you’d like or use it to find something you read about earlier. I also love his Eat: The Little Book of Fast Food. The…
Best Chicken Salad
I’ve been playing around with chicken salad and have discovered some new-to-me tricks. I’ve broken the pattern down so you can see how to customize this with different ingredients and make the best chicken salad according to suit your tastes. The Chicken For the star of the salad I usually use leftover chicken so everything…
Roast Chicken with Peaches, Honey & Lavender
With fresh peaches from the farmer’s market and lavender from my yard, this roast chicken from Diana Henry’s A Bird in the Hand: Chicken recipes for every day and every mood was fantastic! I don’t often think to cook fruit with meat but this dish will definitely be repeated. The chicken was moist and flavorful…
Lidia’s Chicken and Rice
This Chicken and Rice Recipe was my first “fall” dish, as it cooled off a little yesterday evening and I felt like something warm and comforting. I’ve made this enough times that the page in the cookbook (Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy) is wrinkled and splattered and I’ve almost got it memorized. I see…