How to Spatchcock a Chicken

Isn’t ‘spatchcock’ a super fun word to say?  This chicken recipe boasts (and roasts!) a whole succulent chicken in only 40 minutes flat!  Using just olive oil, salt and pepper, you too, can create your own chicken masterpiece.  You know how most roast chicken recipes tell you to tie strings snugly around the bird’s body and legs, compacting …

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Grilled Chicken Kebabs

This is my new favorite summer grilling recipe. These kebabs are SO GOOD they will even impress a Persian father-in-law (and I would hazard a guess that he’s eaten a few kebabs in his day)! I made a happy mistake and let the chicken marinate for two solid days in the fridge. Seriously, the two-day marinate is the …

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Sticky Sweet Bourbon BBQ Sauce

I love to grill meat!  The great outdoors, the smell, the flames, the seared, browned exterior crust over a juicy meaty interior; honestly, what’s not to love?  Did you know May is National Barbecue Month?  I learned this news nugget when Four Roses Bourbon approached me and asked if I would create a BBQ sauce from their single barrel …

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Buffalo Hot Wings

Even though March is technically over and sadly both Michigan basketball teams lost (sorry Mike Smith), I’m still going forward with a recipe post of my favorite buffalo hot wings!  Wings are perfect fare for watching any type of sport, specifically tomorrow’s Monday night college basketball championship game.  The Hubs taught me you can throw …

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Arroz Con Pollo (Chicken with Rice)

Thousands of great food photographers exist in the world, but lately I’ve been admiring the work of Steve Giralt.  His self-published cookbook titled, “First Generation Cuban-American“, displays some of the most interesting and different food photography I’ve ever seen.  Food pictures are usually so overtly happy, sunny and bright.  Steve’s pictures are a total divergence …

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Chicken & Dumplings with Mushrooms

Holy crap was this recipe ever delicious.  “Such silken rich broth!  So meaty!  Is this really chicken???”  The Hubs and I exchanged several questions over our stew in-between the mmmmm’s, slurps, and gahhhhhmmm’s.  I cooked Bon Appetit’s February cover last night. I woke up this morning (still!) to the lingering heavenly sent scent (HA) of …

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Hatch Green Chile Wings

About three weeks ago, the lovely people at The Hatch Chile Store reached out to me all the way from Hatch, New Mexico.  They wanted to know if I would like to cook with their Hatch Green Chile.  An enthusiastic, HECK YES!, was my response.  I think they noticed last Fall’s chutney and enchilasagne posts, both …

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Enchilasagne

Last weekend I attended my first ever hatch green chile pepper roasting party.  You may ask, “what’s a Hatch green chile, Michele?”  Good question.  Hatch green chiles are chile peppers cultivated in and around Hatch, New Mexico.  The peppers can range from mild to extra hot on the Scoville index.  The harvest season lasts the …

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Chicken Tikka Masala

Chicken Tikka Masala is my favorite spicy curry recipe.  Surprisingly, it is said to be a British national dish, not Indian!  Sigh, leave it to me to like the non-traditional Indian recipe best.  Chicken tikka is chicken marinated in spices mixed with yogurt, or in my recipe’s case, yogurt, garlic, and ginger.  The “masala” part …

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