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Last night we had a little impromptu dinner with an old friend who has recently become single. Since most of us are just getting over bad winter colds (and one has just started trying to get over a broken heart), I thought it was the perfect day to embrace this month's Weekend Cookbook Challenge theme of comfort food. A few years ago, when I first fell in love with Jamie Oliver, aka The Naked Chef, and his tv show, I watched him make "Chicken with Milk", a dish that looked so ridiculously easy to make and so amazingly yummy that I still remember it four years later. While looking through my cookbooks last week to find winter comfort food for the challenge, I came across a beautiful picture of a chicken with strips of lemon peel on it, nestled in a deep pot. The picture looked so good, and Oliver had made it look so easy, I just had to see what it tasted like. After browning the chicken I threw it in the oven with a couple cups of milk, the zest of two lemons, a handful of sage leaves, some garlic, and a cinnamon stick, and let it cook, following the instructions to "baste when you remember". While it was cooking, I boiled some potatoes and mashed them with sautéed shallots and basil. The meal took almost no active time, I got to visit with our heartachy friend while the bird and the potatoes cooked, and when everything was ready I just tore the meat off the bird, piled it on the potatoes, and threw some salad dressing on a handful of lettuce for each of us.
And how was it? Was it really as good as it was easy? No ladies and gentlemen, it wasn't - it was even better. The chicken was so moist and the sauce was so flavorful that I would have been willing to do much more work for the same results (haha, I win this round, kitchen gods).
So now, as bad as the weather is, I'm kind of glad there's still lots of winter left - I'm looking forward to making this dish again.
Posted by georgia to Kitchen and Cooking , Reviews on January 17, 2006 10:30 PM | permalink | Email this post
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Thank you for partcipating! The round up can be found here:
http://somethingsoclever.typepad.com/weekend_cookbook_challeng/2006/02/wcc2_roundup_.html
:o) ~Alicat
Posted by: Alicat at February 3, 2006 03:01 PM
