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Nick • May 31, 2010
The best part about learning to cook is when you nail a dish. It’s not like you just pass and make something edible. It’s when you kill it! People are fighting over the leftovers. That’s what every cook wants. And I have to say that I killed this dish. Everything just worked. It’s one of [...]
Posted in Chicken, Healthy, Pasta, Poultry, Salad, Spicy | Tagged Asian Food, Chicken Breasts, garlic, mango chutney, noodle salad, Red Pepper Flakes, rice wine vinegar, scallions, sesame oil, snap peas, soy sauce, udon noodles
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Nick • April 26, 2010
I’ve never “visited” the Waldorf salad here on Macheesmo so it might sound weird to revisit it, but that’s what I’m doing darnit. You see, the Waldorf Salad is old. It’s been adapted quite a few times so even though I’ve never written about here before, many other people have so I feel like I [...]
Posted in Chicken, Healthy, Poultry, Quick and Easy, Salad | Tagged almonds, apples, butter lettuce, buttermilk, celery, Chicken Breasts, chives, lemons, mayonnaise, parsley, Red Pepper Flakes, red peppers
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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 [...]
Posted in Chicken, Economical, Main Dishes, Poultry | Tagged five spice powder, garlic, ginger, orange, rice, rice vinegar, scallions, sesame oil, soy sauce, whole chicken
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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, Economical, Main Dishes, Pasta, Poultry, Quick and Easy | Tagged basil, garlic, olive oil, pesto, pine nuts
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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, Main Dishes, Pasta, Poultry | Tagged basil, bay leaves, bread crumbs, Chicken Breasts, garlic, Italian food, kalamata olives, mozzarella, onions, panko, parmesan, parsley, Spaghetti, tomato sauce
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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 [...]
Posted in Appetizers, Chicken, Junk Food Junkies, Poultry, Spicy | Tagged ancho chiles, brown sugar, chicken wings, chili powder, cilantro, coffee, garlic powder, ginger, Onion Powder, paprika, rice vinegar, shallots, sriracha, thyme
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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 [...]
Posted in Chicken, Main Dishes, Poultry, Soups | Tagged bay leaves, butter, cake flour, carrots, celery, chicken stock, dumplings, garlic, gravy, leeks, milk, onions, parsley, peas, roux
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