Summer is here and it’s grilling season once again. Here is a recipe for chicken and an accompanying side dish of potatoes and pearl onions that can be cooked on an outdoor grill or a convection oven including a turbo broiler. Preparation takes little time and is practically mess-free. Clean-up is a breeze too as…
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The dish called orange chicken appears in many cuisines. There is a Chinese version (Chinese American, actually) which is now found in the menu of the Chinese fast food chain, Chow King. There is a Mexican dish and an Italian dish with the same name. And then there is a Spanish version. I don’t know…
The flavor is derived from the fresh orange juice but much of the aroma comes from the orange zest. No artificial colors are necessary, believe me, if you use fresh oranges. You can use ready-to-drink orange juice if you’d rather not squeeze fresh oranges (Speedy did that for me) but if you do that, you…
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…
