As a retrospective, I'll just touch on some yummies this week:
Lemon Chicken Stew
From In Erika's Kitchen. I made this on Monday night and we ate it on Tuesday night. This is a simple chicken thigh-based stew and it's a slow cook (2 hours on the stove-top), but the meat falls apart with a fork when it is done. Lovely. It's really strong in lemon flavour, a bit more than I would like (and I love lemon!). I didn't add figs though (pure laziness, and note the above busy-ness of the week) and I didn't have as much meat as the recipe called for; those two items may have cut the sourness. The stew also has olives, which are soft and slip right off the pits. Have I mentioned my child's love for olives? She digs strong flavours. Greg gave her all of his.
Candied Pecans
From Cooking With My Kid. I made this for our Christmas Eve eve party, and received several compliments on them. These are really easy, just a slow cook again (1 hour). I didn't know what baker's sugar is, nor could I find it in the grocery store, so I used half icing sugar and half granulated. Worked out just fine.
Granola
From December 2010's Chatelaine. Pecan-Cranberry Granola. I also made this for our Christmas Eve eve party but had some with yogurt for breakfast for a few days in advance of the party. I don't think many people tried it but that's okay because I loved it and will eat it up myself.
People also loved the prosciutto-wrapped dates and Parmesan.
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| Top row L-R: salami + olives; salami + tomatoes Middle row: prosciutto + dates + Parmesan Bottom row: prosciutto + dates + Parmesan; salami + olives |
Merry Christmas to all. :)
Kirsten i really cannot approve of this blog. so what. you go home from work every day cook all evening, fall into bed and repeat all week then spend the weekends cooking more? you are makin me look like a lazy rube.
ReplyDeletelove Aaron
Don't forget the laundry. Sorry. It's partly compulsion. It's partly pure fun. It's partly I'm the most particular person I know and I have to please myself. The unexpected side effect is that my child has the best developed palate of any 2 year old I've met, which just adds motivation.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I don't do much else.
Your house looks lovely and tidy, and what an emminently reasonabe number of gifts under the tree. Your passion and dedication to cooking was a matter of brief discussion during Christmas dinner at the farm. Mention of OCD came up, but just perhaps because I think Bronwyn has a touch and therefore all day we sisters were seeing it in one another. A little is a good thing, right?:-)
ReplyDeleteA touch of OCD, yes, but my system has flexibility built in. We decided Christmas morning we had too many gifts; O would have been fine with just one.
ReplyDeleteI mentioned to Aaron on the phone the other day that all this cooking leaves no time for playing the mandolin.
ReplyDeleteTrue dat. My musical talent is nil.
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