This Southern Style Fried Chicken is the best representation of juicy chicken on the inside with irresistible crust so full of crunchy ripples. Southern Style Fried Chicken. You read it right….fried chicken. Don’t you walk away here. I know that each and everyone of you has a weak spot for the juicy, finger-licking meat wrapped in [Continue Reading…]
Coq Au Vin with Garlic Butter Potatoes
This hearty Coq Au Vin with Garlic Butter Potatoes is simple enough for a weeknight dinner, but elegant enough to serve to guests on special occasion. Don’t be intimidated by the fancy mysterious name, this dish is simple chicken stew at its finest. Chicken is simmered down in red wine sauce to tender perfection, combining the rich flavor [Continue Reading…]
One-Pot Chicken and Rice Pilaf
Humble, rustic, scrumptious weeknight One-Pot Chicken and Rice Pilaf, you say? Yes, I’m very much down widdat. One-Pot Chicken and Rice Pilaf is a warm, comforting, fragrant, and humble dinner recipe that features (besides the obvious – chicken and rice) shallots, garlic, carrots and some delicious spices. The building blocks of the whole meal are chicken and [Continue Reading…]
Hearty Chicken Stew
Comfort food…oh, how I love you! And I am so happy your time to shine has come again. Not that you’ve been gone. Actually, you’ve never completely disappeared from this blog. I mean, meat and potatoes are my favorite! And it’s a cozy season, so comfort food is in full force. Just look at this hearty chicken stew! You know, [Continue Reading…]
Pomegranate Bracelet Salad
Now, every year I get crazy excited seeing the boxes full of big, bright red pomegranates in the grocery stores. They are my fall and winter power fruits. The juicy little bursts of ruby pomegranate seeds are so pretty, I wish I could have them as jewelry. An edible jewelry, like this Pomegranate Bracelet Salad! This salad blows [Continue Reading…]
Chicken Kiev
I love to cook for a lot of reasons. It’s the curiosity of experimenting with new ingredients and spices, developing new recipes or pleasing family and friends with yummy dishes, but most of the time it’s the desire to reconnect with recipes from the past. Retro recipes that have been handed down through generations of [Continue Reading…]
Roasted Mustard Chicken
Welcome, welcome, friends! And may I introduce you to what may be my new favorite way to eat chicken? It’s that beauty right up there, the one coated in the sweet and hot mustard sauce featuring a few drizzles of red wine vinegar and the aroma of freshly minced garlic. Yes, THAT is how I eat chicken. I [Continue Reading…]
Teriyaki Chicken Stir Fry
Quick, healthy and effortless meals like this chicken stir fry with homemade teriyaki sauce and loads of healthy veggies are the exact sort of recipe I need on any given weeknight: fast, flexible, and filling. Stir fry recipes are the best. They are so versatile and you can pretty much use whatever lingering ingredient you have in [Continue Reading…]
Sticky Lemon Chicken
So sticky, so lemony, so moist and packed with so much flavor. Sticky Lemon Chicken is a super easy weeknight meal made in minutes! The most flavorful chicken dish I have ever made is adapted from Gordon Ramsay’s cookbook, Fast Food. The aromas of chicken thighs caramelized in soy sauce, honey and garlic, along with zesty lemon are intoxicating and one [Continue Reading…]
Cultured Compound Herbs Butter
Let’s talk about butter my friends. Butter is very important in our kitchen. We all know what it is and we all have tried it. But can you say you’ve tried a sophisticated, deeply-flavored, healthy and packed with healthy enzymes butter? I am talking about cultured butter and if you’ve never tried cultured butter then this post is [Continue Reading…]