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Tom Kha Gai: Thai chicken coconut soup
My version of the popular Thai chicken coconut soup. You can substitute shrimp or chunks of fish for the chicken. Ingredients 3 cans (14 to 14 1/2 ounces per can) chicken broth 2 cans (13 to 13 1/2...
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Chili with chicken and chocolate
You can substitute ground turkey for the chicken. But don’t omit the chocolate —it’s the key to the flavor. While I discard the stems from the dried chile peppers (serrano and chipotle), I use the...
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Chicken Bstilla
Here is my slightly lazier version of bstilla (a.k.a., b’stilla), a savory pie with chicken, eggs and almonds. Well, lazier in the sense that its form is more like baklava in a pan, rather than the...
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Chicken sausages roasted with vegetables
This is a comforting one-dish meal, perfect during cold weather. Use unsmoked, uncooked chicken apple sausages for the best effect: the apple juice adds a subtle sweetness to the surrounding veggies....
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Chicken rice soup for a cold
Or, rather, for the cold which has been haranguing me for nearly two weeks. This soup is quite simple: Throw rice into a pot of chicken stock, then simmer until done. The small amount of rice expands...
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Student memories: Hummus topped with ground chicken & pine nuts
Back in school, my friends Ananda, Carolyn and I used to frequent a small Middle Eastern eatery in a half-empty strip mall in Pomona. Their hummus was divine: it came with either a swirl of...
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Chicken marinated in lemon, saffron & yogurt
Sometimes it’s tricky to find a good chicken kebab. Sometimes too tough or dry. Sometimes bland. A recipe on Chowhound for jujeh kebab looked quite approachable and intriguing. Indeed, the long...
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Pizza with chicken, cheese & chutney
Here’s an example of my being a food mutant: I don’t like pizza. To clarify: I don’t like deep dish pizzas, which are far too soggy. Thin crusts tend to change my mind. I don’t like tomato sauces —oh,...
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Moussaka
Homemade moussaka always seems to be a prolonged, multi-step process. But, oh so tasty. Especially since you can choose what goes in it! Some people love adding carrots and zucchini, but as much as I...
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Americans say chicken stewed in red wine; French say Coq au Vin
Over here in the West, Autumn hasn’t decided yet to descend upon us. But when the weather does turn cold, it’s hard for me to resist tender poultry steeped in a rich sauce. This recipe is adapted from...
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An extremely untraditional cassoulet involving green lentils
I often enjoy dishes made with chickpeas and lentils. But my répertoire is deficient in recipes where these delightful legumes participate. So this brings me to the cassoulet, or rather “cassoulet,”...
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Chicken stock
Chicken, seafood and vegetable stocks are liquid gold. Not only are they essential for soups, but for a wide variety of sauces, they’re indispensable. I’m somewhat surprised I never managed to post a...
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Yedoro tibs: Ethiopian boneless chicken stew
Ethiopian cuisine offers such a wide range of vegetable dishes that it’s easy to go meatless. However, yedoro tibs (a.k.a., doro tibs) is one of the few meat dishes I really enjoy. The boneless chicken...
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Carrot soup with cumin
This soup was inspired by the carrot velouté scented with coriander+cumin foam I had at the Musée d’Orsay’s Café Campana in February. Hm, “inspired” isn’t quite the right word; more like “became...
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Yorkshire pudding with poultry sausages, or toad in the hole
After many years of trying to encourage volume and height in our Yorkshire pudding attempts, I finally found a dependable recipe via Jamie Oliver. This is yet another variation on popovers, where an...
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Spiced chicken apple “sausage” patties
To my sadness, our local Whole Foods no longer carries (at least not regularly) delicious chicken apple-spice sausages. I found a good reference for poultry sausage recipes, and decided to make some...
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Tom Kha Gai: Thai chicken coconut soup
My version of the popular Thai chicken coconut soup. You can substitute shrimp or chunks of fish for the chicken. Ingredients 3 cans (14 to 14 1/2 ounces per can) chicken broth 2 cans (13 to 13 1/2...
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Chili with chicken and chocolate
You can substitute ground turkey for the chicken. But don’t omit the chocolate —it’s the key to the flavor. While I discard the stems from the dried chile peppers (serrano and chipotle), I use the...
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Chicken Bstilla
Here is my slightly lazier version of bstilla (a.k.a., b’stilla), a savory pie with chicken, eggs and almonds. Well, lazier in the sense that its form is more like baklava in a pan, rather than the...
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Chicken sausages roasted with vegetables
This is a comforting one-dish meal, perfect during cold weather. Use unsmoked, uncooked chicken apple sausages for the best effect: the apple juice adds a subtle sweetness to the surrounding veggies....
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