By Nick • January 18, 2010
Even though I’ve been trying to eat less meat, there’s one thing that I try to do every few months that’s an extremely economical way to eat and use meat: roasting a whole chicken. It provides a great meal, good leftovers, and enough stock to make even more meals in the future.
I think if there [...]
Posted in chicken, Dinner, good food, TIWSIMRIIHAR | Tagged chicken, Dinner, five spice powder, ginger, orange, rice, roasted chicken
By Nick • November 11, 2009
Buying fresh herbs always stresses me out. I feel like they are pretty essential in some dishes and really add a ton of flavor that’s sometimes hard to replicate with dried herbs. There are normally two problems when I buy them though. First, they are incredibly expensive. Most herbs are weeds. Or trees. How is [...]
Posted in chicken, Dinner, Easy Stuff, Economical, good food, Pantry | Tagged basil, chicken, Dinner, freezing stuff, garlic, olive oil, pasta, pesto, pine nuts
By Nick • November 2, 2009
Chicken Parmesan. Chicken Parmigiana. Chicken Parm. Chicken P. I’m not really sure what the best name for the dish is (probably not Chicken P.), and heck even Tyler Florence calls it different things. He calls it chicken parmesan on Food 911 and then chicken parmigiana on Tyler’s Ultimate. Make up your mind T-man. As far [...]
Posted in chicken, Dinner, good food, pasta | Tagged chicken, chicken parmesan, chicken parmigiana, how to make chicken parmesan, mozzarella, parmesan, tomato sauce
By Nick • October 22, 2009
If you told me that I could only pick one snack food to eat for the rest of my life, it might be chicken wings. Either that or popcorn, but probably wings. I’ve made chicken wings before on Macheesmo, three kinds in fact, but this version is something different.
I think there are three important qualities [...]
Posted in appetizers, chicken, good food, Junk Food Junkies, spicy | Tagged ancho chiles, chicken wings, coffee, dry rub, ginger, paprika, sriracha, sticky wings
By Nick • October 19, 2009
I don’t want to sound cocky or anything, but I think I’ve found the cure for the flu… including the swine variety.
Betsy was sick a few weeks ago, and maybe she didn’t have the swine flu, but she was definitely sick and I decided to make a dish that my mom used to make for [...]
Posted in chicken, Dinner, good food, Mom's Recipes, soup, TIWSIMRIIHAR | Tagged chicken, chicken and dumplings, chicken soup, chicken stock, dumplings, gravy, roux
By Nick • August 12, 2009
If you didn’t know, August is officially peach month. That means there is no better time than the present to eat some delicious ripe peaches. Now I love a good peach pie or cobbler, but when a coworker told me about a delicious peach salad, I had to give it a try.
For this peach salad [...]
Posted in appetizers, chicken, Easy Stuff, healthy, salad | Tagged chicken, Dinner, dressing, goat cheese, greens, healthy, molasses, mustard, peaches, pecans, salad, shallots, vinaigrette
