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Last week I pulled out the May issue of Everyday Food and tried all three of the recipes I had wanted to try: the Roasted Chicken with Ginger, Chile and Lime; the Gingered Sugar Snaps; and the pistachio crusted Chocolate-Covered Strawberries. I made the chicken without the pickled jalapeños, but it was almost surprisingly good anyway - the ginger and lime add a wonderful pungent flavor to the meat. The only problem was that almost all the spice was confined to the breasts, where it was easy to spread them under the skin. This left the other parts of the chicken with a lot less flavor. Next time I'll try to get every part of the chicken covered in the spices. The sugar snaps, on the other hand, were a disappointment. The flavor was nice, but even with the strings removed, the snaps remained really fibrous and hard to eat. I much prefer them raw and crunchy to warm and stringy, though if one cut them into smaller pieces and cooked them in the liquid longer, it might break down the fibers. The strawberries were perfect - The Guy likened them to nut-crusted ice cream bars, which was a pretty apt description, and noticed that they'd be really good with almonds. I think they might taste even better with almonds, but they wouldn't be nearly as pretty. My favorite thing about the strawberries was that after leaving them in the fridge for only 15 minutes, as per the instructions, they came out firm but not too hard, so the chocolate didn't crack apart and fall off as we ate them and we were able to enjoy chocolate with each bite of strawberry.
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Your strawberries are absolutely gorgeous. I love the addition of nuts - they look great and I imagine they taste great too ;)!
Posted by: Geneve at June 18, 2006 03:47 PM
