It’s been all about the vittles here recently.
I got several lovely cookbooks for Christmas. Most notably: Simply In Season , Lidia’s Italian-American Kitchen , and Crockery Cookery . I am a cookbook-aholic. It’s genetic.
Tonight I made Curried Island Chicken, and served it over brown basmati
rice, with a garnishing of Mango Chutney. The chicken
itself was eh, but I think that’s because my curry powder is really
old.
effort to put my newfound ethical considerations about grocery shopping
in to practice, I bought a whole chicken (instead of boneless, skinless
breasts), and had the butcher quarter it for me. I spent a long
time skinning and boning it to the best of my ability today, and I
considered being a vegetarian as I was pulling feather shafts out of
the skin on the breasts. Shudder.
Never had Mango, or any other variety of Chutney before. Turns out it’s pretty tasty.
Anyway, I’m inordinately proud of myself because I made a killer
curried chicken salad for lunch tomorrow out of the
leftovers. I’m going to have it in a pita. Tim’s having
tuna fish. He says chicken salad is “gross.”
timwylie | 11-Jan-06 at 12:59 am | Permalink
I would just like to say that I think all “salads” that aren’t tuna are gross. Not just yours. Just salads that are like “hey, let’s take all this junk and throw it together with some base sauce”, and this includes fruit salad. It’s just not right.
dchalenburg | 11-Jan-06 at 11:11 am | Permalink
Tuna = Gross
____-Salad (be it Ham, Tuna, Chicken or anything else) = Gross
Fruit Salad = Not Gross (unless you are talking about Chicken salad with grapes or apples or something like that).
Food in general = Good
Enjoy the cookbooks.
dave
wingsofdawn | 11-Jan-06 at 11:24 am | Permalink
Well, Dave, it depends on the chicken salad. That one chicken salad we had that one time was questionable. MY chicken salad, however, is quite tasty. Even though it has grapes in it. Back up off.
seaslug | 11-Jan-06 at 11:48 am | Permalink
I think I agree with Tim, except for egg salad, which is good. While I don’t think I’ve had chutney before, I have had mango. Which I like. Because it’s tasty.
sweet_n_lo | 11-Jan-06 at 5:08 pm | Permalink
That’s too bad about you guys and salad. I like, nay, love, all the aforementioned salad combinations, fruit or sans fruit. I think you’re all way missing out.
And Rach, when I read about your curry chicken salad, I think I actually drooled a little. MmmmmMMMM! Recipe?
And I’ll also take the chutney recipe and anything else you have with mango as a main ingredient.
third_man | 13-Jan-06 at 1:39 pm | Permalink
May I request an email detailing these “ethical considerations”? Just cause I’m wonderin’.