A Super-Simple Anchovy-Garlic Dipping Sauce for Chicken Wings (and Other Things)

I recently was moved to make chicken and dumplings, I think by the onset of fall and the fact that my husband was sick. When I make homemade chicken stock, I usually use chicken wings, and this recipe also called for using wings for the soup base. I usually cook stock until the wings practically [...]

Quick Dinner: Shredded Chicken Tacos

We don’t have a regular weekly taco night around here, but I do make tacos on a regular basis. They fulfill all the requirements of a weeknight dinner: quick, easy, uses whatever you have on hand. I prefer soft tacos with the small flour tortillas, and this filling works really well. It was a big [...]

How to Roast Chicken Breasts

Note: I have updated this popular post based on the comments I have received to add more detail to the instructions.
We have roasted chicken breasts a lot. They are simple to cook and you don’t have to do much to them. Between the two of us, we can eat one of those gigantic organic bone-in [...]

Sunday Is a Good Day for Making Stock

I am trying to get in the habit of making my own chicken stock regularly. Making stock is not that hard to do, but it is very rewarding. Homemade stock just elevates soups to a whole different level. You can also freeze stock in ice cube trays to have smaller amounts on hand for use [...]

Pan-Roasting Boneless Chicken Breasts: A No-Fail Technique

Aren’t those chicken breasts gorgeous? I often pan-roast bone-in chicken breasts using a combination of stovetop and oven cooking. But I tend to use other techniques for cooking boneless chicken breasts, such as pan-frying. Now I have found a foolproof technique for pan-roasting boneless chicken breasts with meaty, juicy results, and it has become my [...]

Running the Home Kitchen Like a Restaurant

One thing I have quickly figured out about being a parent is that the days are unpredictable. I can no longer count on having a quiet hour to prepare dinner in the evenings. Rather, my quiet hour may come in the morning, after lunch or who knows when.
I don’t want to fall back on takeout [...]

Variations on a Theme: Chicken Salad

One thing I’ve noticed, as I have cooked more and more, is that very few recipes are truly original. Most are just variations on a simple theme. Once I have learned the core recipe or technique, it then becomes a simple matter to vary the recipe to suit my tastes, the ingredients I have on [...]

Christopher Walken Cooks a Chicken

I love this video of Christopher Walken cooking a chicken with pears in his home, not only because Christopher Walken is so cool but also because the video is so home-video-like. I also like to sometimes narrate my recipes while I’m cooking them, but of course, I am not a cool movie star and neither [...]

Simple Is Satisfying — Chicken Roasted with Salsa

The more I cook, the more I come to believe that the simplest dishes are the most satisfying both to make and to eat. Of course, I have tried those recipes that seem to have a million steps, or that ask you to stuff something or roll something or layer something, or that require a [...]

Chinese Lantern Festival & Chicken Stock

This week has been rather uneventful, what with me struggling to get over my recent bout of ickiness and my husband traveling quite a lot. Partly out of boredom and partly because I’m sure you’re obsessed with the minutiae of my cooking life, I added a new page to my blog listing all of my [...]