Best-Ever Roast Chicken Claim is True
If there is one food I cook well, it is Roast Chicken. Mine always come out juicy and tender; I use the nifty tool, a Spanek verticle roaster. You don’t need anything beyond the wire gizmo that makes...
View ArticleGreen Salsa Chicken
It is hard to photograph chicken when the meat is falling off the bone. And excessively juicy. And bubbly hot, but it is sooooo easy to eat this good stuff. Two ingredients only – chicken and green...
View ArticleCrockpot Chicken Noodle Soup
This recipe post is being updated for our current almost-winter season. The weather here in LA is hot, then cold, then hot, then cold. But I have to admit that in any temperature, I do love this...
View ArticleHomemade Chicken Stock
I’m not a slave to homemade stock, but I make it when I have the “stuff” that goes into it. Once you do a batch, you will LOVE it. Today’s is earmarked for Vietnamese Pho Soup which requires a...
View ArticleTuscan Chicken Pallard over Fettuccine
There was this handsome, bald guy on TV making dinner with ingredients I already had (minus arugula). I’d never seen him before (and I love TV). His show was A Lyon In The Kitchen on the Discovery...
View ArticleThai Pasta with Chicken or Turkey
In anticipation of turkey leftovers, friends… Larry and I both work from home offices so we share a good number of meals together. For my lunch today, I dibbed leftovers of this Thai Pasta with Chicken...
View ArticleLight Tortilla Soup
Larry takes me on some pretty interesting dates, like last week’s Laserium Beatles Show (remember the LA Griffith Observatory? Now it’s in Hollywood). As we left the theater, Larry noticed that Beso,...
View ArticlePlain, Simple, Versatile Cooked Shredded Chicken
“This is a recipe?” you may ask. Well, no, but it’s a favorite technique of mine to tackle a few things simultaneously on a leisurely Sunday, my happy cooking day. Chicken parts were a very good price...
View ArticleChicken Pumpkin Lemongrass Soup
Things to cook with pumpkin were getting boring here, so I thought an Asian flavored soup would be different. I took this ‘n that from about five recipes and came up with a pot of flavorful, thick...
View ArticleHow Firefighters Cook and Eat
This is not Larry. Michael James is a Westwood, CA firefighter, and I cornered him at the grocery store. Firehouse 37 is OUR neighborhood fire department. They were right there when Francoise’ vintage...
View ArticleA Valentine’s Meal You Can Do, Sherie
Sherie and I were great pals in high school. She’s since raised three boys into independent grown men. Has been married forever. So I was surprised when she recently told me she “cannot cook.” Or...
View ArticleLook, Ma! I Made A Chicken Pot Pie
Larry and I are boomers. Frozen chicken pot pies were awesome eats in our formative years. They were cheap, salty, fatty, easy, high-cal pots o’ tasty stuff a kid, teen, babysitter, college student...
View ArticleTroy Garza’s Chicken Breast/White Potato Chili Verde
High school was fun for me (that’s rare, right?). I had enough friends to keep me on the verge of trouble; for the most part, though, we skied, worked teenaged jobs, chased boys. Ours was a class of...
View ArticleMy Panda Express “Top Chef” Experience
Walk out our front door, head East on foot, the closest restaurant is a half mile straight into the UCLA campus… Panda Express. I like their food. I also run errands then – buy stamps (US post office...
View ArticleWhite Pepper Chicken Barley Soup Made By A Sometimes Princess
Lucky timing, rain hit the morning after the Valley Performing Arts Center black tie opening. My little satin pumps woulda been ruined! There I was, in line for the potty with Calista Flockhart;...
View ArticleTee Pon Chicken (aka Sherry-Soy Chicken)
Advice, please? I was cooking a simple Tee Pon Chicken recipe, but fretting about photographing “ugly” brown on brown — dark shredded chicken over brown rice. Forget garnishes, I was HUNGRY and it...
View ArticleChicken with Olives and Lemons
It was a dark and stormy night. Well, truth is, it was a sloppy wet January Monday afternoon; we aren’t used to rain here so we make a big thing out of it in LA. And rain makes me want to cook. Chicken...
View ArticleChicken Mushroom Soup & How to Be Sexy
Where’s the “sexy” part??? It’s coming… My recipe writing has gotten boring. “Oh, the weather outside is frightful” kind of stuff. My travel posts, however, are awesome. But you come here for recipes...
View ArticleGreek Chicken Frikase–Yes I Spelled That Right
This Frikase is not Fricassee. This Frikase recipe is Greek – a super tender chicken dish cooked up with romaine lettuce, then swirled (NOT stirred) with a lip-smacking egg lemon sauce. Even reheated...
View ArticleMasala, That Yummy Indian Gravy ~ Guest Post by Neha of Much More Than A...
Hello dear readers, today we go to “the source” for a recipe I’ve yet to make but Larry and I LOVE TO EAT: the Indian yummy Chicken Masala! When friend, Neha the blogger behind Much More Than A...
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