A one-pot dish that’s very, very simple to make. The sauce is to die for. But why ranch style? Speedy named this dish. I suppose it reminded him of old-style cooking where everything is thrown into a pot and allowed to cook slowly. Originally, I was going to call it skillet chicken with fennel seeds…
One of the most popular recipes in this blog is the Vietnamese-style honey ginger chicken which uses bone-in chicken thighs. Here is a version that uses chicken thigh fillets which cooks in less than half the time. For best results, I recommend that you season the chicken thigh fillets with salt and pepper a couple…
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Peri peri, pili, or piri piri means bird’s eye chili in Mozambique. We call it siling labuyo. The dish called chicken peri, or chicken piri piri, refers to grilled (or roast) chicken where bird’s eye chili is used in the marinade or sauce. Many say it is a fusion of Mozambican and Portuguese cuisines, Mozambique…
It is traditional to cook chicken in white wine but, for the life of me, I couldn’t locate the bottle of white wine last night so, throwing tradition to the wind, I grabbed the unopened bottle of semi-sweet red wine and cooked the chicken with it. The result was surprisingly great as the red wine…
This dish was inspired by a recipe called tangerine beef which I found in one of my cookbooks. I don’t have access to fresh tangerines but I like the idea of adding nuts to deep-fried meat coated in a sweet sticky glaze. I substituted lemon for the tangerine and chicken for the beef. If you…
Last night, there was a replay of the No Reservations episode shot in Singapore and, suddenly, I missed Singapore. I love the vibrancy of that city-state the food stalls where the food is so good it seems silly to go to pricey restaurants, the shops in the air-conditioned underground tunnel, the food, the train, the…
I love Chinese-style stir fries! They’re fast to make, they’re so pretty with the explosion of shapes and colors, and they’re perfect when you have only a small amount but several varieties of vegetables. The chicken had been fried earlier in the day so the stir-frying part to complete the dish took less than five…
When a recipe calls for butterflied chicken, where do you cut down the back of the breast? See, I always cut down the breast. You can see that in the chicken piri piri and chicken inasal recipes. Then, I saw Jamie Oliver butterflying a chicken by cutting down its back. And that made me think….
At the Sun Moon Lake area in Taiwan, there is a restaurant set in a magnificent garden where the trees twinkle with tiny lights. The restaurant’s specialty fruits. Meat cooked with fruits, seafood cooked with fruits, fresh mushrooms cooked with fruits… I loved the food so much that, since then, I have consciously tried to…
A few weeks before the school year ended, I bought a kilo of boned chicken breast to make chicken salad sandwiches for the kids to bring to school. I boiled and flaked all the chicken to save time. The following day, the kids were bored with a chicken salad sandwich. I was stuck with all…
