I’ve been methodically going through my cooking files. Everything is kept in legal sized hanging files, where I can jot things down on the folders themselves, such as cookbooks that offer a recipe that I use often, idea notes can be tossed in indiscriminately to a parent file. I moved away from a recipe card…
Tag: Chicken
Chicken Marbella
The Silver Palate Cookbook offers the most well known version of Chicken Marbella. Regardless of this dish’s roots from Spain’s south coast, it is their recipe that has made the dish well known in North America. I have always used the proportion of ingredients exactly as written, allowing for a change of amounts depending on…
Farmhouse Chicken Wings
I’m not sure if I’ve ever actually had Chicken Wings in a pub setting. Most likely because I had left the city and was living on this lovely little island before they became a “thing”. There are, however, a couple of recipes of sticky, yummy chicken that I remember most fondly. One was a family…
Slow-Roasted Chicken with Lemon & Garlic
For the first twelve years of our marriage, we lived in a 40’ x 9’ trailer. We had renovated the inside, built a roof and an extra room. Most people didn’t realize it was a trailer. Just a really well planned little cottage. Its lights ran off a 12-volt car battery, while the stove, fridge,…
Roast Chicken
For many years we raised our own meat birds. We’d do 50 at a time, raise them on a vegetarian diet, with greens added, and could expect 8 – 10 lb. birds in a couple of months. We had a chick room, and a finishing room, and during the warmer months, both would be busy….
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