Cooking
Friday's dinner (I would have preferred to order pizza, but opted not to be lazy), from Food & Wine.
Another case of 'I really should have read the recipe all the way through first...'; as I was preparing to start cooking, I noticed the ingredients called for a whole chicken, with skin on.
Oh.
Yeah, we don't have one of those.
When we buy chicken (for Matt), we get boneless, skinless, breasts (I always worry about typing that...who knows what searches will lead here, or who might be blocked from entering, based on that one term?).
Time to improvise.
The directions were to zest both an orange and a lemon, and grate ginger; stuff it into the salted and peppered cavity of the chicken.
So, I cut a pocket into Matt's chicken and my Veat, did the S&P thing, then added the zest/ginger combo, as well as slices of the zested lemon and orange.
I set the chicken/Veat on coils of aluminum foil, in roasting pans.
Then, juice another lemon and orange. To juice add more grated ginger, honey, and olive oil.
Baste chicken/Veat with juices, and bake...basting every 20 minutes. For a full chicken, cooking time is around 1 1/4 hours. My version took about fifty minutes to bake through.
Nice and citrus-y, with a light ginger note. Served it with wild rice and a green salad. Good stuff.
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Cooking
Citrus and Ginger Roasted Chicken
Friday's dinner (I would have preferred to order pizza, but opted not to be lazy), from Food & Wine.
Another case of 'I really should have read the recipe all the way through first...'; as I was preparing to start cooking, I noticed the ingredients called for a whole chicken, with skin on.
Oh.
Yeah, we don't have one of those.
When we buy chicken (for Matt), we get boneless, skinless, breasts (I always worry about typing that...who knows what searches will lead here, or who might be blocked from entering, based on that one term?).
Time to improvise.
The directions were to zest both an orange and a lemon, and grate ginger; stuff it into the salted and peppered cavity of the chicken.
So, I cut a pocket into Matt's chicken and my Veat, did the S&P thing, then added the zest/ginger combo, as well as slices of the zested lemon and orange.
I set the chicken/Veat on coils of aluminum foil, in roasting pans.
Then, juice another lemon and orange. To juice add more grated ginger, honey, and olive oil.
Baste chicken/Veat with juices, and bake...basting every 20 minutes. For a full chicken, cooking time is around 1 1/4 hours. My version took about fifty minutes to bake through.
Nice and citrus-y, with a light ginger note. Served it with wild rice and a green salad. Good stuff.
- Gingery Broth With Wonton Ravioli
It's getting colder (fine with me!), which means we're coming on soup weather. I love soup. Whether it's as simple as broth with tiny star-shaped pastas, or roasted and pureed vegetables, chunks of foods floating around...don't care....
- A Real Meal At Last!
Things are still decidedly insane around here (could have a little something to do with the paint fumes...), but I have managed to reclaim my kitchen. Perhaps that very act led me to prepare something very much like a real meal. I confess: I almost never...
- Parmesan Chicken With Balsamic Butter Sauce
A surprisingly simple dinner dish: Parmesan Chicken with Balsamic Butter Sauce. We never buy whole chickens, so as always, we cut up chicken (and Veat) breasts; reducing the baking time. Parmesan cheese, olive oil, garlic, and oregano for the chicken's...
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In our kinda-sorta attempt to eat better (read: more veggies for Matt), as well as cut back on the time spent in front of the stove (a depressing afternoon spent figuring out just how much time Matt and I spend together left us with about 5 1/2 hours...
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Matt worked late Tuesday night (big computer stuff, much too technical for me to pay attention to), and I was busy doing a dozen different things all afternoon and into early evening. Still, I wanted to have dinner for him, whenever he got home, so I...