This one is dedicated to my cousin Rudy. She ordered the roasted chicken salad at Founding Farmers recently, and I was absolutely inspired by its sweet, tangy and peppery flavors. I decided to recreate it on a whim after stumbling across a similar recipe in Martha Stewart’s Everyday Food magazine. Instead of using dried blueberries [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Chicken’
March 21, 2010
Misua Noodle Soup With Baby Bok Choy, Shittake Mushrooms And Homemade Chicken Stock
Misua, a very thin noodle used in a lot of Filipino soups, is a tricky thing. Cook it for too long, and you end up with a glutinous, pasty chunk at the bottom of your pot. Cook it too short, and you’re eating straw. Unlike other Asian noodles, misua — which hails from China and [...]
May 2, 2008
Ginataang Manok (Chicken and Coconut Milk Stew): It’s Frikkin Great
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”) [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
