Poultry
Chicken in a pepper
So peppers were a buck apiece last week and chicken thighs were on sale too. Regular stuffed peppers aren’t high on my list of things to eat, but these were pretty darn tasty. They looked pretty too.
Ingredients
4 boneless, skinless chicken thighs
1/4 cup olive oil
2 cloves minced garlic
2 Tbs pesto
2 flat bottomed bell peppers
Directions
Combine the oil, garlic and pesto and toss into a plastic bag. Add the chicken and marinate in the fridge for up to an hour.
Cut the tops off the peppers. Remove the ribs and seeds and brush the insides with a bit of oil, then season with salt and pepper. Take the chicken from the marinade and roll up jelly roll style. Stuff two thighs into each pepper and place in a baking pan.
Bake at 350 until chicken is done--about 45-50 minutes.
Serve with rice (fried would be extra nice) and sauted veggies.
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This is a great tasting and super easy to prepare combo with mostly stuff you probably have in the pantry. You may be tempted to use boneless chicken, but if you do, you’ll wind up with shredded chicken once you take it out of the crock. Which actually doesn’t sound too bad now that i think about it. It’d be kind of a spicy chicken stew to serve over the rice.
Chipotle Lime Chicken
Ingredients
· 1 cup sliced onion
· 1 cup chopped celery
· 1 cup chopped carrots
· 4 pounds skinless chicken thighs
· Salt and freshly ground black pepper
· 1 (15-ounce) can tomato sauce
· 1/4 cup lime juice
· 2 tablespoon minced chipotle chiles in adobo sauce with 2 teaspoon sauce from can
· 2 cloves garlic, minced
· 1 avocado, diced
· 1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro leaves
· Lime wedges, for garnish
Directions
Arrange onion, celery and carrots in bottom of slow cooker. Season chicken thighs with salt and pepper and arrange over vegetables.
In a medium bowl, whisk together tomato sauce, lime juice, chipotle chiles with sauce, and garlic. Pour mixture over chicken.
Cover and cook on low for 6 to 8 hours or high for 3 to 4 hours. Serve over rice (recipe below) and top with diced avocado and cilantro.
Ingredients
· 2 cups instant brown rice
· 1 (14-ounce) can coconut milk
· 1 cup water
· 1 (15-ounce) can red beans, rinsed and drained
· 1 teaspoon dried thyme
· zest of one small lime
· 1/4 cup chopped scallions
· Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Directions
In a medium saucepan, combine rice, coconut milk, water, beans, thyme, and lime zest. Set pan over high heat and bring to a simmer. Reduce heat to low, cover and simmer 5 minutes, until liquid is mostly absorbed. Fold in scallions and season to taste with salt and pepper.
Plate: California Poppies for the Santa Fe Railroad by Syracuse China
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This turned out better than I expected, both as a pulled sandwich and sliced. If you have a large crockpot use a whole turkey breast cut along the keelbone. If you’ve only got a 3.5 qt crock like me? Your best bet will be to de-bone them or use breast fillets.
Ingredients
1 whole turkey breast (or 2 boneless fillets)
1/4 cup dark molasses
1/4 cup red wine vinegar
1/4 cup ketchup
2 Tbs Worchestershire sauce
2 tsp liquid smoke
1 small onion, chopped very fine
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper
Directions
if using a whole turkey breast, place it flesh side down in the crock to make sure that the meat is covered by the sauce. If using fillets, just lay them in.
Whisk remaining ingredients together in a bowl and pour over the turkey. Cover and cook on low for at least 4 hours.
Slice and serve over rice OR…
Remove turkey to a plate and cover with foil to keep warm. Pour the stewing juices into a saucepan, add a nubbin of unsalted butter and reduce to the consistency you like. Shred turkey before placing it on a bun and top with a nice dollop of the Q sauce.
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This smells really great when it’s baking and tastes great, even if it doesn’t look lime much. The yogurt is an awesome blank slate for whatever you want to flavor it with (Balsamic vinegar or mixed citrus juices and zests instead of the Worchestershire sauce maybe?) and helps keep the chicken amazingly moist even if you take the skin off as I did. It also doesn’t take much prep time. Maybe 10-15 minutes depending on whether you have to remove the skin yourself or not.
Ingredients
3 pounds bone-in chicken pieces, skin removed (one cut up chicken or whatever parts yank your crank)
2 Tbs lemon juice
salt & pepper
2 cups plain non-fat yogurt
2 Tbs Worchestershire sauce
2 Tbs Dijon mustard
1 tsp thyme
1/2 tsp cayenne
1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1/2 cup thinly sliced green onions (for garnish)
Directions
Preheat oven to 350.
Place chicken pieces in rectangular baking dish. Drizzle with lemon juice and season with salt and pepper.
Toss the next five ingredients in a bowl and whisk together, then pour over and around the chicken pieces. Bake chicken, uncovered, for 50 minutes. Sprinkle with Parmesan and broil for 3 minutes before serving.
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Many moons ago when blogs were still young, I frequented the blog of a nice guy from Pennsylvania, btezra. His blog has gone the way of the dinosaurs (so don't bother clicking) but this recipe, which he originally posted there and graciously permitted me to copy, has survived. I've done a couple of things differently but only in the prep. The ingredients are the same.This lasagne is whatchacall a special occasion dish. It's labour intensive and makes for lots of dirty dishes. I make this maybe once or twice a year but trust me, once you've tried it, you'll find it's worth the trouble. If you're especially industrious, double the recipe and freeze the second pan for a quick heat-and-eat meal when you're busy. It will take a good 3 months worth of freezing with no problem. And seriously? This is damned good. Really good. Really, really good. It's also very rich and very filling. Be prepared to need a nap after dinner. You can, of course, substitute all that low-fat ricotta, milk, etc., but why would you want to? I mean, it's not like you'd eat this everyday.
Ingredients:
1/2 C butter + 2 TBSP
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 C flour
2 C milk
2 C chicken broth
2 C (8 oz bag) shredded mozzarella - divided
1/2 C parmesan cheese
1/2 C onion, diced
1-2 tsp Italian seasoning, to taste
1 packet G. Washington
1 tsp Nature's Seasons
1 C cottage cheese
1 C ricotta
1 egg
2 boneless chicken breast
1 pkg fresh or frozen spinach **Important - see footnote
9 lasagne noodles

Directions:
Cook lasagne noodles, dry and lay on waxed paper until ready to use. Slice chicken breast (easier if partially frozen) from the short side about 1/4" thick. Cutting from the short side creates little medallions. In a non-stick frying pan, melt 2 TBSP butter. Add sliced chicken and cook through, letting it brown a little. Remove to a plate and set aside. To the same pan, add your washed and dryed spinach. Slap a cover on it, let it cook for 2 minutes then turn off the heat leaving the lid on.
In a 3 or 4 qt saucepan, melt the butter. Add garlic and onion and cook until translucent. Whisk in flour and all the seasonings. Cook for 2-3 minutes. Whisk in milk and broth and bring to a boil. If the sauce is too thick, add more broth. Remove from heat, sauce will thicken as it sits so you might have to add a bit more broth. It should be thick and spreadable.
Combine cottage cheese, ricotta, 1 C mozzarella and egg. Mix well.Spread about 1/3 of the sauce in 13 x 9 pan, top with noodles. Spread 1/2 of the cheese mixture over noodles. Repeat sauce/noodle/cheese mixture. Top with chicken, then spinach. Add last layer of noodles and then remaining sauce. Cook covered @ 350° for 1 hour. Uncover and sprinkle the rest of the mozzarella cheese on top. Bake until cheese is melted and bubbly.
**After the spinach has wilted in the pan and cooled, put it in a triple layer of papertowels and squeeze out all of the excess moisture. You do not want the spinach to be wet. If you use frozen spinach, thawed it out first then squeeze out the excess moisture. Even though the original recipe calls for 1 bag, I always use two. I like the extra spinach.

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So I saw this in one of Giada’s cookbooks and immediately thought, “Ewww. Gross,” when I read what the word ‘tonnato’ meant. Roast turkey breast with Tuna sauce? As one of my friends said after reading the ingredients “Sounds like cat vomit.” Gut it’s Giada and I’d probably eat dog food if she recommended it. Turns out that it’s damn tasty though. The sauce gives bland-assed turkey a much needed flavor boost and would probably just as tasty on the lean, bland pork we’re forced by the health police to buy. Be sure to have plenty of bread or rolls around to help soak it up.
Turkey Tonnato
Ingredients
* 2 lb turkey breast, skinless and boneless
* 1 Tbs oregano
* 1 Tbs thyme
* 1 Tbs basil
* 2 Tbs extra-virgin olive oil
* 1 cup chicken stock
* Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Tuna Sauce:
* 6 oz canned white meat tuna, packed in olive oil – do not drain
* 1 tsp anchovy paste or 1 anchovy fillet, drained
* 1 TBS fresh lemon juice
* 1 Tbs capers
* 1/3 cup mayonnaise
* Chopped parsley leaves, for garnish
Directions
Preheat oven 375.
Season the turkey with salt, pepper and herbs. Coat with olive oil, place in a baking pan and pour the chicken broth around the turkey. Bake for 30 to 40 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool in the baking pan for 10 minutes. Slice into 1/2-inch slices, on an angle. Allow to sit in baking pan with juices as you make sauce.
Toss the tuna, anchovy, lemon juice, mayo and capers in the food processor. Puree until creamy, about 1 minute. Pour the tuna mixture into a bowl.
Place the slices of turkey on a platter with some of the pan juices and pour the tuna sauce on top. Garnish with chopped parsley.
China: Lenox Tosca. crazy ornate, eh?
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This was originally a recipe for the grill but, well, it’s too damn cold out to grill so I adapted it for the oven. It actually turned out to be more sweet than spicy, but it was still pretty good. Next time I may add some cayenne pepper or chili powder. Maybe some horseradish too.
Chili Sauce Chicken
Ingredients:
1 bottle chili sauce
1/3 cup chicken broth (plus a little more)
1/4 cup olive oil
1/8 tsp pepper
4 1/2 tsp basil
2 tsp crushed red pepper flakes
1/2 tsp salt
12 cloves minced garlic
8-10 skinless chicken thighs
1/2 Tbs unsalted butter
dash balsamic vinegar
Directions
Place the first seven ingredients in a large zip-lok bag and moosh around to mix. Remove 1/3 cup of the marinade to use for basting and add the chicken. Put in the fridge and let marinate for at least 2 hours.
Preheat oven to 350. Place chicken in a baking dish. Pour a little of hte marinade from the bag onto each thigh and add enough chicken broth to just cover the un-chickened areas of the pan and bake 40-50 minutes, basting with reserved marinade once.
When chicken is done, put the chicken in a platter and keep warm. Pour juices in the baking pan into a saucepan along with a shot or two of balsamic vinegar and simmer until reduced and kind of thickened. Add butter and whisk till melted. Serve chicken over rice and top with a few spoonfuls of sauce.
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Having experienced the piss-poor driving habits of the Bubbastan-area natives after last week’s tiny snowfall, I opted to stay home after getting off of work at 6:00 am. The only pizza delivery place in town is both overpriced and unparalleled in it’s its general suckitude and nastiness of taste so I foraged around the kitchen. This is what I came up with. I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not a fan of citrus unless it’s with seafood, but this turned out pretty okay. The soy and ginger gives it a bit of an oriental flavor that you can emphasize further if you want, and you could use grapefruit juice if you prefer a sauce that is a bit less sweet.
Kinda Oriental Chicken
Ingredients
4-5 skinless chicken thighs*
1 1/2 cups orange juice
4 Tbs soy sauce
2 clove minced garlic
2 tsp grated ginger
4-5 Tbs soy sauce
Directions
Score the chicken pieces with a knife and place in a gallon-sized zip-top storage or freezer bag.
Add remaining ingredients to a medium sized bowl and whisk to combine. Add to the chicken in the bag and squeeze to remove all possible air before sealing. Throw the bag-o-bird parts into the fridge and allow to soak for 30-40 minutes up to all day, turning and squishing occasionally to make sure the liquid has circulated.
About 2 hours before you want to eat, pull out the chicken and allow to come to room temperature.
Preheat the oven to 350. place the chicken parts in a rectangular baking dish and pour the marinade over them. Bake for 35-40 minutes, or until done (bone-in pieces will cook a bit faster than boneless).
Place the chicken on a warmed plate and cover to keep warm. Transfer the liquid in the baking dish to a saucepan. Simmer over medium heat until reduced to the consistency you like and spoon the sauce over the chicken. Serve with steamed or sauteed veggies. Noodles with butter and a bit of cheese would work too
* I prefer dark meat. It’s got a lot more flavor and is boatloads more forgiving of overcooking as opposed to chicken breasts, which turn into chicken jerky if you don’t get ‘em out of the oven or frying pan exactly on time.
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Here’s a quick and easy dish to help use up the leftover Thanksgiving turkey. It’s tasty and definitely qualifies for comfort food status.
Ingredients:
1/3 C butter + 2TBSP
1/3 C flour
1 stalk celery
1/2 a small onion
1 packet G. Washington Golden
1-1/2 C turkey broth (You did boil your turkey carcass for broth and stock, right?) or 1 can chicken broth
1/2 C half & half
4 oz fresh mushrooms
2 handfuls frozen broccoli florets
1-1/2 C cooked turkey
1/4 meat leftover pan drippings
salt & pepper or Nature’s Seasons, parsely
1/2 to 3/4 of a bag cooked wide egg noodles
Melt 2 TBSP butter in a frying pan. Add sliced fresh mushrooms and cook until brown and all liquid has been given off. Melt 1/3 C butter in 3 or 4 quart pot. Cook celery and onion until tender. Add flour, G Washington and Nature’s Seasons all at once. Stir well. Cook for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Slowly add about 1/2 the broth while whisking briskly. Add the half & half and simmer for 5 minutes or so. Add more broth as necessary to make a creamy sauce. Add meat, mushrooms and broccoli to sauce. Add noodles until you like the consistency of pasta to sauce. Re-season to taste. Add parsley.
I always save the pan drippings from the turkey that I don’t use for gravy. It will form a kind of jelly consistency. This stuff is full of yum. Seriously. It adds so much flavour. Save this and add it by tablespoonfuls to this sauce and other turkey or even chicken based dishes. Good stuff.
Oh and the pan I cooked this in? My new best friend. I do not kid. I love this pan. You can check it out on the sidebar in the Amazon ad. You want one. Really.
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Okay. I wasn’t sure about this one, but I figured it was worth a shot.
Cranberry Chicken
Ingredients
5-6 boneless skinless chicken breasts
1 can cranberry jelly
1 pack onion soup mix
8 oz bottle italian dressing
Preheat the oven to 350. and pour yourself a glass of wine.
Place chicken in a rectangular baking dish.
De-can the cranberry jelly into a bowl and marvel at its ability to tower over the bowl while quivering as if it’s going to collapse. Once you’ve become un-hypnotized, mash the jelly and spread over the chicken. Sprinkle the onion soup mix on top of the cranberry jelly and top with the Italian dressing. Toss in the oven and bake, uncovered, for 30-40 minutes.
Despite my misgivings, this turned out to be damn tasty and it made my kitchen smell like autumn. I think that the next time I try this, I may substitute a balsamic vinagrette for the Italian dressing and chopped fresh onions and herbs for the onion soup mix.
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Ingredients:
About 2/3 of a box of spaghetti (I use linguine)
5 slices bacon, diced
1 medium onion, diced
1-1/2 C cream
4 chicken breasts, cut into 1 inch long, thin slices
1/2 lb mushrooms (or 10 oz package)
4 tbsp butter, divided
1/2 C grated parmesan
Pepper (I use Nature’s Seasons)
1 packet G. Washington Golden
4 Egg yolks, lightly beaten
Directions:
To more easily dice bacon, freeze it hard, at least 8 hours or overnight. It’s much easier to dice. Same with the chicken breast...it’s easier to slice when it’s partially frozen.
Pecorino romano can be substituted for parmesano reggiano. Buy the good stuff, I beg of you. It costs more but there are some things you don’t skimp on. This is one of them . Don’t use that crap in a can!! Also, parmesan is a salty cheese. You don’t need to add salt to this dish.
Boil spaghetti to your liking then drain. Run hot water over to rinse off some of the starch. Drain well.
Sauté mushrooms in 2 tbsp butter until golden brown and all moisture is cooked off. Set aside.
In a another large saucepan, sauté the bacon bits and onion until golden. If there’s a lot of bacon fat, drain off some drippings but be sure to keep at least a tbsp or so. Add 2 tbsp butter and the chicken. Season with pepper and G. Washington. Sauté until chicken is fully cooked. Add cream and heat until just simmering. Stir in the the cheese.
Lightly beat the egg yolks. Slowly add some of the hot cream to the eggs, stirring well. Turn heat to low to stop the simmer. Add egg-cream mixture back into the pan and stir well and continuously for a few minutes. Mixture will thicken as it cooks. DO NOT BOIL OR YOU MIGHT SCRAMBLE THE EGGS.
Add mushrooms to pan and heat through. Turn off the heat.
Using a slotted spoon, remove some of the chicken to a plate. Spoon some of the cream mixture over the spaghetti until it is thoroughly coated. Plate the spaghetti and top with chicken and the rest of the sauce.
Makes about 4 servings.
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I like chicken thighs because they usually wind up much more tender and have a lot more flavor than breasts but if that’s your thing, more power to you. I’ll admit that they’re fattier, but if you unfold the thigh and trim away the main glob, there’s surprisingly little fat left.
Ingredients
2 lbs boneless skinless chicken thighs (about 8)
1 cup chunky salsa
1/4 cup smooth peanut butter
2 Tbs soy sauce
1 2-3 inch hunk of ginger, peeled and grated
1/4 cup chopped peanuts for garnish
1/4 cup chopped cilantro for garnish
Unfold the chicken and trim away the main glob of fat. Fold back up and arrange chicken in the crockpot. Combine the next 4 ingredients and whisk until well mixed. pour over chicken, cover and cook on high for 3 to 3 1/2 hours or low for 6 to seven hours.
Serve over rice.
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Oh stop it. Yes, You. I can see the look of horror and disgust on your faces after reading the title of this post. I even hear you thinking that this sounds like something that should appear in one of my odd and/or disgusting foods posts. I, however, love those creamy little poultry-based poison filters. Give it a shot. Like most casseroles, it’s not much to look at, but it’s darn tasty in a retro 50’s sorta way.
Ingredients
2 10 oz packages of frozen french style grean beans
4 slices bacon, diced
4 cloves garlic, chopped
1 pound chicken livers, nasty connective tissue removed and cut in half
2 Tbs sherry or marsala*
1/2 tsp seasoned salt **
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1/2 cup sour cream
3/4 cup crushed barbeque potato chips
Directions
Preheat oven to 375. Cook green beans according to directions. Drain well and spread out on a rack or paper towels to dry. Once they’re dry, spread them into the bottom of a greased 8x8 baking dish.
Saute the bacon until crisp and spread over beans. Add the garlic and sautee until golden. Add the livers to the fat and garlic in the pan and fry/simmer until they are no longer pink (the livers will give off a fair amount of liquid). Add the next four ingredients and stir until heated through. Once heated, pour inot the pan of bacon and beans, spreading so that it makes a fairly uniform layer. Top with crushed potato chips and bake for 15 minutes, or until bubbly.
Serves 5-6
* It goes without saying that you should spring for a bottle of sherry or marsala from the wine aisle rather than the salt-laden swill that styles itself “cooking sherry” found elsewhere in your grocery store of choice.
** I don’t like to use much salt when cooking. In the future I’ll probably take a pinch of various herbs and grind them together instead.
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1/2 C flour
1 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper
1 3-1/2 to 4 lb chicken cut into 8 pieces
8 TBSP butter, divided
1/4 C lemon juice
1/4 C orange-flavored liqueur
1/4 C honey
2 TBSP orange zest
1 TBSP soy sauce
Whole cooked baby carrots
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine flour, salt and pepper in large plastic bag. Add chicken pieces a few at a time, to bag; shake to coat completely with flour mixture. Melt 4 tablespoons of the butter in large baking pan. Roll chicken in butter to coat all sides; arrange skin side down in a single layer in pan. Bake 30 minutes.
Meanwhile, melt remaining 4 tablespoons butter in small saucepan over medium heat. Stir in lemon juice, liqueur, honey, orange zest and soy sauce. Reserve 2 tablespoons of the mixture. Remove chicken from oven; turn pieces over. Pour remaining honey mixture over chicken. Continue baking, basting occasionally, 30 minutes or until chicken is glazed and tender. Toss reserved honey mixture with cooked carrots; serve with chicken.
Makes 4 servings - two piece of chicken per person.
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I may be biased but this is the bestest ever chicken concoction I have ever concocted…
6-8 chicken breasts
1 jar of salsa
2 - 3 cups shredded cheese (don’t matter what kind)
A NOTE BEFORE CONCOCTING:
Now this may just be me, but chicken breasts are icky unless you put them in a pot of water and boil them a bit to get all the ickyness out of them. So yeah, that’s what I do before baking.
DIRECTIONS:
Place chicken breasts (pre-cooked or not, that’s up to you) in an 9x13 oven pan. Pour salsa over the top of the chicken breasts, to cover. Top with shredded cheese.
Cover lightly with foil.
Bake at 300 for 1 - 1 1/2 hours.
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