Cooking
Friday's dinner: Italian Chicken Salad in Lettuce Cups, and Persian Rice with Pistachios and Dill.
This is one of my favorite side dishes. I've lost track of how many times I've made it over the last four years!
Start with lots, and lots of dill.
This is probably the freshest dill I've ever used in my life, having come right from the backyard garden. Mmmm...
Parboil rice, drain. Melt butter in bottom of pan, add rice, alternately layering with chopped pistachios and dill.
(forgive the photo; we have the darndest time taking photos of white food)
The crunchy bits from the bottom are prized, reportedly. All I know is, they're good.
And a light chicken salad, in a red vinaigrette dressing; served in cups of lettuce.
I made a few changes to the recipe.
First, I didn't use a store-cooked chicken...I just cooked them at home. I also 'cheated' and used jarred roasted red peppers, instead of cranking up my oven to roast my own.
I also cut the recipe down, as it served 12! There are only three of us, you know...
The rice was wonderful, which was to be expected. The chicken salad was flavorful, without weighing us down with a lot of mayo. Nice dinner.
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Cooking
Chicken and rice
Friday's dinner: Italian Chicken Salad in Lettuce Cups, and Persian Rice with Pistachios and Dill.
This is one of my favorite side dishes. I've lost track of how many times I've made it over the last four years!
Start with lots, and lots of dill.
This is probably the freshest dill I've ever used in my life, having come right from the backyard garden. Mmmm...
Parboil rice, drain. Melt butter in bottom of pan, add rice, alternately layering with chopped pistachios and dill.
(forgive the photo; we have the darndest time taking photos of white food)
The crunchy bits from the bottom are prized, reportedly. All I know is, they're good.
And a light chicken salad, in a red vinaigrette dressing; served in cups of lettuce.
I made a few changes to the recipe.
First, I didn't use a store-cooked chicken...I just cooked them at home. I also 'cheated' and used jarred roasted red peppers, instead of cranking up my oven to roast my own.
I also cut the recipe down, as it served 12! There are only three of us, you know...
The rice was wonderful, which was to be expected. The chicken salad was flavorful, without weighing us down with a lot of mayo. Nice dinner.
- Kalijira Rice:ingredient
Lee has asked for chicken for dinner so chicken it is! I got the new edition of Food & Wine magazine and it has a chicken with apricots and almonds recipe I will make tonight with baby basmati rice. Baby basmati rice is really Kalijira "The Prince...
- Chinese Chicken Salad
Nice salad. Romaine, carrot & green onions, topped with (in our case) fried strips of wonton, drizzled with a dressing of peanut butter, brown sugar, sriracha, ginger, rice wine vinegar & sesame oil, over which cooked chicken is tossed. Fresh, crunchy...and...
- A Return To Normalcy
Home improvement projects have been completed (for now), guests have come and gone, Easter is done, as are a trio of food events. What does that mean? Daily posts, about actual food, are back! As I mentioned in a recent meme, I've gotten on this...
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Day Three: My dishwasher can't keep up... I really enjoy Mexican food. It does tend to dirty a lot of dishes, though...and my poor little dishwasher is working overtime! On to the food. Chicken in Peanut Sauce Another not-too-terribly laborious...
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Finally, a fried chicken recipe that actually comes out crunchy. I've been searching high and low, even tracking down 'clone' recipes for KFC and other places. No luck. Until this time. Using Michael Chiarello's recipe for Double Dipped...