I had a weird request for my mom a couple of weeks ago for my weekly care package: “Will ya throw a couple of cans of coconut milk in there?” I really wanted to recreate the fragrant, ginger-infused chicken and coconut soup my grandma used to make for me as a kid, ginataang (pronounced “ginut-ung”) [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Chicken’
April 9, 2008
Chicken Kishk: An Egyptian Recipe Nobody Likes Except for Maybe Me
There is a little container of plain yogurt sitting in my fridge, and very soon, it’s going to become kishk, an Egyptian recipe for a cold yogurt sauce. It sounds daunting, but when you think of it as “creamy chicken gravy,” (which it is, technically), it doesn’t seem as bad.
I asked my aunt Mona to [...]
January 25, 2008
Battle: Cornish Game Hen
My roommate Steve and I cooked our hens last night, side by side in the oven. Jordan, my other roommate and resident chicken expert, judged the plates. Steve won — Jordan said that his had a certain kick that mine didn’t have. I suspect it was because he used freshly cracked black pepper, tons of [...]
January 24, 2008
What I Come Home for: My Mom’s Cornish Game Hen
My roommate Steve bought two cornish game hens yesterday and suggested that I cook one and he’d cook the other. I only know one recipe for cornish game hen, and it’s the one that my mom makes.
Her recipe is a Filipino-American invention, something she developed after coming to the States. It’s stuffed with bacon [...]
