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Well, since I've already started in on the March reviews, I should probably finish up the Feb reviews. This week I finally got to the Feb copy of Living, though not to the lovely craft projects that I wanted to do. I'll hang on to the issue for those and for all the great desserts that I didn't get to try.
This week I started with the Quick Chicken Cacciatore from What's for Dinner, and served it with polenta. Unfortunately my local stores don't carry instant polenta, so I had to make it the hard way (taking notes from the March issue of Gourmet), but I did add some milk and butter and parmesan to the recipe, to mimic Martha's version. The meal was very good, especially the polenta with the sauce from the chicken on it. The chicken was nice, and an interesting variation from my usual recipes, but nothing to write home about (Mom, I guess that means you should stop reading now), and for something that calls itself "quick", it takes an awfully long time.
I also made the Little Lemon Soufflés, which looked like one of the quicker, cuter desserts in the issue. It was quick, and kind of fun to make, but as you can see from the pictures, they weren't exactly cute. The soufflés rose in funny directions and the lemons (Meyer lemons, as per the recipe) turned a very dark gold as they cooked. Looking at the picture in the magazine, I assume that the stylist had the kitchen bake a few dozen of these just to get the three they showed us, then did lots of color correction to get them as cute as they look.
Despite their ugliness they were lovely to eat, though, and The Guy especially liked them. Maybe next time I try them I'll make them in real ramekins, so it will be easier to salvage their appearences when they go lopsided.
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I disagree; I think the lemon souffles are beyond cute. Uber cute. Double uber cute. The only time I've ever made souffle was in cooking class, and I had parters to help me! Tasty, but I'm too lazy to make em on my own.
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at February 26, 2006 11:40 AM
They actually weren't as hard as I would have thought - probably because they were so small.
Posted by: Georgia at February 26, 2006 12:52 PM
