I had another run in with a not quite right Martha Stewart recipe. The Curry Chicken with Carrots and Lime Rice from the most recent Good Cooking magazine. I used half the chicken and carrots but the full tablespoon of curry powder and it was still sort of bland. The pictures in her recipes always get me but then the flavor falls short. Of course, we are having it again this week because the carrots were awesome. Roasted in chicken fat with curry and then doused with lime juice right out of the oven. I am just going to amp up the chicken somehow. Probably just with some salt or a long roasting.
Monday, April 30
curried carrots
The weekly menu planning is such a great success! We were making our list tonight and looking over all of April and were pleased to discover that each week was more enjoyable than the previous. Now we plan a "special" friday night dinner. Last week was spaghetti and meatballs. We were bursting! Brandon seems to be in charge of the ideas for the exciting meals. This week he has taken on a very ambitious menu. Pierogies (homemade) and some manner of cabbage dish. Another reason to anxiously await fridays.
I had another run in with a not quite right Martha Stewart recipe. The Curry Chicken with Carrots and Lime Rice from the most recent Good Cooking magazine. I used half the chicken and carrots but the full tablespoon of curry powder and it was still sort of bland. The pictures in her recipes always get me but then the flavor falls short. Of course, we are having it again this week because the carrots were awesome. Roasted in chicken fat with curry and then doused with lime juice right out of the oven. I am just going to amp up the chicken somehow. Probably just with some salt or a long roasting.
I had another run in with a not quite right Martha Stewart recipe. The Curry Chicken with Carrots and Lime Rice from the most recent Good Cooking magazine. I used half the chicken and carrots but the full tablespoon of curry powder and it was still sort of bland. The pictures in her recipes always get me but then the flavor falls short. Of course, we are having it again this week because the carrots were awesome. Roasted in chicken fat with curry and then doused with lime juice right out of the oven. I am just going to amp up the chicken somehow. Probably just with some salt or a long roasting.
Wednesday, April 18
Cake Day
After a frenzied hiatus, we have gotten back to cooking and planning ahead. The ham and 2 huge plates of homemade candies at Easter destroyed my will power for a while. Luckily, Brandon made Chicken of the Taverns from Amy Sedaris' book and it was so amazingly good that I realized that home cooking can in fact still satisfy my insane cravings.
A note on Amy Sedaris' book I Like You. It is definitely funny but there is much more to it than the humor. I think it is a genuinely good, interesting cookbook/entertaining manual. The huge corporate bookstore I work for insists on shelving it in the humor section with books that have pictures of cats doing funny things and books collecting all the Dilbert comic strips. I love those books just as much but I think it is a disservice to the customers and to Amy Sedaris to have her book pigeonholed. There are plenty of cookbook collectors who are missing out and probably just as many humor nerds who just think her book is a joke.
Also, a kid I work with recently organized a "Cake Day" because everyone I work with loves cake. I brought a Nigella Lawson's Mother in Law Madeira Cake. It is my favorite "adult" dessert. A lemon cake with no icing just a hard sugary crust. I always feel very grown-up eating it. One of the older women who really seems to have her life together (because she always looks put together and has a husband who really pays the bills so she can just have a sort of hobby job) said it was very good. Embarrassingly, hers was the only opinion I wanted to hear. I hope I get over this wanting to be taken care of phase because I never used to want to be a woman whose husband paid the bills while I just cooked and indulged myself in hobbies. Honestly, I don't know anything about her life or their set-up but it would be nice to not be panicked about money and the future.
A note on Amy Sedaris' book I Like You. It is definitely funny but there is much more to it than the humor. I think it is a genuinely good, interesting cookbook/entertaining manual. The huge corporate bookstore I work for insists on shelving it in the humor section with books that have pictures of cats doing funny things and books collecting all the Dilbert comic strips. I love those books just as much but I think it is a disservice to the customers and to Amy Sedaris to have her book pigeonholed. There are plenty of cookbook collectors who are missing out and probably just as many humor nerds who just think her book is a joke.
Also, a kid I work with recently organized a "Cake Day" because everyone I work with loves cake. I brought a Nigella Lawson's Mother in Law Madeira Cake. It is my favorite "adult" dessert. A lemon cake with no icing just a hard sugary crust. I always feel very grown-up eating it. One of the older women who really seems to have her life together (because she always looks put together and has a husband who really pays the bills so she can just have a sort of hobby job) said it was very good. Embarrassingly, hers was the only opinion I wanted to hear. I hope I get over this wanting to be taken care of phase because I never used to want to be a woman whose husband paid the bills while I just cooked and indulged myself in hobbies. Honestly, I don't know anything about her life or their set-up but it would be nice to not be panicked about money and the future.
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