sauteed chicken with Moroccan hot and sweet tomato sauce
April has kind of gotten away from me, and this project with it. I’m still figuring out what I need to do to complete the remaining cookbooks by the end of June; I think I have a lot of work ahead of me. I’m on vacation this [...]
Posts Tagged ‘chicken’
CIA One Dish Meals: Not Technically One Dish, But Still Good
Pure Poultry: Hot Soup for a Chilly Evening
chicken chili soup with fresh lime
I can’t believe how long it’s been since I had a chance to cook for and post to this blog. Things have been a little hectic. And it’s going to be all the more challenging to meet my goal of cooking from every book by the end of June, but [...]
Best Recipes From the Backs of Boxes, Bottles, Cans and Jars: If This Is “Best,” What Didn’t Make the Cut?
tangy chicken
It’s time for another Recipes of the Damned offering, this one a cookbook extolling the virtues of processed food. More specifically, this book is a compilation of recipes found on product labels. The premises of the book seem to be that a) People use a lot of processed foods, b) People who use a [...]
Pepper Springs Cookbook: Unstable Enchiladas
sour cream chicken enchiladas
Pepper Springs Cookbook barely makes it into the list of my holdings that qualify as cookbooks. It’s a little wirebound booklet with a rigid back that stands up to display the recipe of choice, and all the recipes rely on sauce or flavor mixes sold by the company. We got it in [...]
Twofer: How to Cook Everything and The Chicken Parts Cookbook
rice with fresh herbs, How to Cook Everything
drumsticks gremolata, The Chicken Parts Cookbook
Still careening around my life without managing to quite get back on track with the blog, I’m afraid. In theory the weekend would have been a fine time to get caught up, but on Friday night I was out, on Saturday I was [...]
Cooking Essentials: Beautifully Rendered Basics
Cajun-style chicken
Cooking Essentials is a beautifully designed book from a cookbook club I used to be in. It presents what it promises: fundamental techniques and principles of cooking.
I wanted something easy and undemanding. It’s been a long week, and my energy was low. So I opted for Cajun-style chicken, which is about as simple as [...]
The Irreverent Flavor of Nike: A Blast From My Past
Julie’s parmesan chicken
If you live in the Pacific Northwest for any period of time and are willing to entertain the pursuit of corporate work, odds are strong that you will put in some time at either Nike or Microsoft, or both. If not at the company itself, one of its vendors. If not as a [...]
The Joy of Cooking (2006 ed.): A Classic, Revised
chicken breasts baked on a bed of mushrooms
The Joy of Cooking was the first cookbook I remember working with. My mother owned a copy that dated from the early 1960s, I think, and it was loaded with fascinating information. I still laugh at the thought of a recipe my sister and I came across at [...]
The Martha Stewart Living Cookbook: Now We’re Talking
chicken stuffed with savory duxelles
After a trauma like Tuesday’s biscuit fiesta nonsense, it’s important to get back in the kitchen right away and make something really worth making. Hence tonight’s dinner, chicken stuffed with savory duxelles, from The Martha Stewart Living Cookbook: The Original Classics. This is more like it.
Let me say again: I love [...]
500 Tasty Sandwich Recipes: Have Some Sandwich With Your Mayonnaise
chicken and bacon salad, salmon and cucumber, beef
500 Tasty Sandwich Recipes is one of a series of 1940s booklets offering hundreds of recipes for a particular item: salads, sandwiches, and dairy-based dishes have made it into my collection. While writing Recipes of the Damned entries I found hilarious possibilities: molded salads arranged to look like [...]
