Chicken

Eggplant and Chicken Puttanesca Stacks — Almost Meatless Virtual Potluck

July 29, 2009

It’s a hamburger? It’s a chicken burger? No, it’s Eggplant Chicken Puttanesca Stacks! This is my contribution to the Almost Meatless Virtual Pot Luck. Authors Joy Manning and Tara Mataraza Desmond have somehow managed to organize a group of 30 food bloggers for this affair. Each of us making a different dish from Manning and [...]

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Thai Chicken Kebabs

July 22, 2009

I knew the black raspberry photo session went too well. Having taken a good 40 or so shots, I downloaded the pictures to my computer via my incredibly handy new CF card reader. To do this, I remove the CF memory card from my camera, insert it into the oh-so-portable reader, plug the nifty little [...]

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Tikka-Style Chicken Kebabs and the World’s Longest Barbecue

July 20, 2009

Some of you might remember last year’s post in which, thanks to a sprained wrist, I cajoled my friends into doing all the work for The World’s Longest Barbecue™. Andrew served drinks, my sisters chopped, diced and threaded kebabs and my brother-in-law worked the grill. Me? I looked fragile and basked in the title of [...]

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Mango Chutney Chicken

April 14, 2009

Update: If you have a mango allergy, as it turns out some of my readers do, you can substitute papaya, peaches or nectarines. Pineapple will taste lovely but have a slightly firmer texture. This is mango ginger chutney. A small promotional brochure from the LCBO (Liquor Control Board of Ontario, for my out-of-province friends) arrived [...]

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Chicken with Dried Cranberries and Orange

March 17, 2009

After yesterday’s jelly bean confession, I figured I should eat a healthy meal. But I wanted the intense flavours those tiny shellac-coated goodies offered. My solution, dried cranberries. The shot above is an extreme close up of the cranberry sauce that graced my potentially ho-hum chicken. Marmalade, balsamic vinegar and some orange brightened up an [...]

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No-Butter Butter Chicken

March 3, 2009

I’ve been saving this recipe to share with you during my upcoming and long-promised Indian Week. But it’s been so cold lately, I thought something from a warm and sunny land would help. And you can’t go wrong with curry. While I adore Indian food, butter chicken especially, I don’t make it that often. It [...]

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Curried Chicken Pot Pie

February 6, 2009

Last week, Alisa Bowman asked what impressive but no-fuss meal she could serve her book club. Hungry bookworms answered with a wide range of culinary solutions: Diva Lisa jumped straight to dessert and suggested cheesecake. Lisa, you can join my book club any day. Cheri Sicard recommended pulling out the slow cooker. Shunning the chicken-and-condensed-cream-of-mushroom-soup [...]

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Herb and Olive Chicken

January 13, 2009

We’re heading into the mother of all cold snaps. If the Weather Network is right, the warmest day this week will be a lip-chapping -15C. Celsius always sounds colder than Fahrenheit, but keep in mind that anything with a minus sign in front of it means you can make ice. Without an appliance. When cars [...]

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Thai Coconut Soup

December 19, 2008

The long-predicted storm has hit. Fluffy, delicate flakes are not wafting from the heavens like diamond dust making everything merry and bright. Au contraire! Tiny, razor-sharp ice crystals are thrashing about in the wind, whitewashing the great outdoors. In this weather, a jaunt for the mail morphs into a life-threatening journey. I’m no dummy. Andrew [...]

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Mulligatawny Soup

October 28, 2008

When I first heard of Mulligatawny soup, I had no idea what it was. The name sounded Irish to me. I envisioned a simple stew-like dish with hunks of long-simmered beef, thick rounds of overcooked carrots and potato wedges that would fall apart en route to my mouth. I later discovered Mulligatawny is actually an [...]

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Perfect Chicken Stock

October 23, 2008

Sorry if you were expecting another art shot. I chose this brightly coloured pottery bowl to illustrate how clear chicken stock should be, not tantalize you with a new soup. I have a confession. Until recently, I didn’t understand the fuss about homemade stock. No wonder. I’d been doing it all wrong. I would dump [...]

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