Poultry
Poultry recipes
Crouton’s Hot Party Wings
Ditalini and I try to have a special meal on Friday night. It’s our way of marking the end of the work week, less stressful than drinking and partying all night. Sometimes we’ll bring home takeout hot wings from Hooters or…
Crouton’s Shrimp & Chicken Italian Sausage w/Cheese Polenta & Sriracha Sauce
Let me just say, right off the bat, that this was an experiment based on a popular Southern dish, shrimp & cheese grits. Next time I’ll add a green vegetable on the side for color, and perhaps substitute chicken breast…
Escargot’s Gordon Bleeping Ramsey Chicken
Every now and then, from the other end of the house, I hear my daughter watching something on TV that sounds like this: “Murmur murmur bleep murmur bleep bleep murmur.” I thought maybe it was Spongebob Squarepants with a bad…
Ditalini’s Chicken & Dumplings
What made this dish special was Ditalini’s home-made chicken stock, so I’ll include both recipes here. Chicken Stock Ingredients 2-3 saved chicken carcasses 4-6 baggies full of saved chicken giblets water 1 onion, chopped 4-6 cloves garlic, chopped 4-6 stalks…
Ditalini’s Portuguese Chicken
Ditalini adapted this recipe from Time/Life’s The Cooking of Spain and Portugal, where it is listed as Pollo a la Chilindrón. She started making this dish almost forty years ago and it quickly became a family favorite. Naturally, she has…
Crouton’s Green Curry w/Chicken & Eggplant
The last time I made green curry with chicken, I thought I’d gone a bit overboard on the ingredients. This time I wanted to try something simpler. The result? My best green curry yet! Ingredients 3 skinless chicken breast filets,…
The deMenthe Family Thanksgiving
The deMenthe family Thanksgiving spread included traditional roast turkey, smoked duck, stuffing, hot crescent rolls, corn casserole and tossed green salad (courtesy of our friend Poulet en Crote), green bean casserole, mashed potatoes, gravy, and of course cranberry sauce. Ditalini…
Ditalini’s Chicken Tajine w/Harissa, Artichokes, & Grapes
Ditalini’s branching out. Last night she decided to use our tajine pot for the first time, preparing a recipe she adapted from a tajine cookbook: Chicken Tajine with Harissa, Artichokes, and Grapes. To make the recipe she first had to…
Rotisserie Chicken
This is really good: juicy, tender chicken with great flavor, and although preparation requires planning ahead, it really isn’t any work at all. As previously noted, Ditalini bought me an electric rotisserie for the new gas grill, and I used…
Crouton’s Green Curry w/Chicken & Lime
Tonight’s Thai curry experiment was a green curry over rice. I based it on a couple of recipes I viewed online, but modified to our own tastes and available ingredients, so I think I can call this dish a Crouton…