Category: Chicken
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This is How to Make a Cozy Dinner: Roast Chicken with Potatoes, Shallots, and Asparagus
Heat oven to 400 degrees. Parboil small red potatoes in water or chicken broth for 10 minutes. Set a rack in the roasting pan and line with parboiled potatoes and 6 whole shallots (tips cut off). Make slits in the skin of a roasting chicken, rub slivers of salted butter under the skin. Cut a…
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Green Curry with Chicken
Last night I made green curry for Ian, my mom, and sister Gabrielle after a 2 hour walk around Kits beach and up to the Kitsilano library. I used my Easy Green Curry recipe as a base and added chicken thighs a few minutes before adding the heartier vegetables. I used baby Bok Choy, zucchini, snap…
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Chicken Salad with Shredded Beets and Artichokes and the 100th Post
This entry marks two special occasions: my 100th post on musicwithdinner and the first article I have ever had published in an international magazine. When I first started writing musicwithdinner it was partly an attempt to ground myself in my new environment. I had just moved with my then boyfriend and now husband from London,…
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Greek Salad with Lemon Chicken
Great big salads full of contrasting textures, flavours, and colours will always be one of my favourite choices for dinner. After a long day spent chatting with customers and being generally very extroverted I find a half an hour spent carefully preparing a salad and all of its components both calming and re-energizing. I can preoccupy myself…
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Chicken Noodle Risotto
I have been craving chicken noodle soup lately. The warmer and brighter weather makes a giant bowl of soup seem less appealing than if we were still stuck in the thick greyness of winter.  I used chicken I had cooked in the crock pot before shredding and then freezing in 2 cup portions. I am rarely…