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Who can resist chicken? Young and old alike are enamored with chicken dishes -- from the ultimate comfort food that is chicken soup to the indulgence that is deep fried chicken. Here are dozens of recipes for chicken soup and fried chicken, and everything in between -- from stir fries to slow-cooked whole chicken to the over-the-top deboned and stuffed chicken that we call galantina or relleno. But don't forget the duck and turkey dishes, and the occasional ostrich recipes -- they're all very good too!
Make a dry rub by mixing together herbs, spices and seasonings. Rub on the chicken, inside and out, then cook the chicken in the slow cooker for five and a half hours. The result is the tastiest and juiciest chicken ever. There is no strict formula — you can add or subtract to the dry ... (more)
My mother is arriving tomorrow and staying for a couple of days. She’s 74 years old, a retired trial court judge who still has a pretty active social life and who likes to go shopping as a form of exercise. Yeah, you read that right. She goes shopping to exercise. She says all that walking ... (more)
I’d call it chicken Parmesan but, apparently, the term chicken Parmesan is often used interchangeably with chicken parmigiana (see the pork version). So, since this dish has neither tomato sauce nor melted cheese topping, to avoid confusion, I’m naming it Parmesan-crusted chicken. It’s chicken katsu with a twist. Chicken fillets are pounded to about a ... (more)
A little chicken goes a long, long way. Two well-seasoned chicken thigh fillets were cut into bite-size pieces, stir fried with garlic and ginger, tossed with silken tofu and blanched spinach. A drizzle of fish sauce, light soy sauce and lemon juice were added and lunch was ready. Sounds simple, right? And it is. The ... (more)
I’ve heard it often said that sweet and spicy go well together as they enhance each other’s flavor. Well, this dish proves the truth of that statement. The chicken fillets were cooked in white wine with sweet-tangy dried berries, ginger and chili. Pearl onions and toasted almonds were added for a surprising contrast.
Lemon and pineapple often figure in Asian stir fried dishes. Oranges make a more rare appearance perhaps because orange segments easily disintegrate over high heat and constant stirring. But that can be prevented, or at least minimized, by adding the orange segments at the last minute. The previous post about how to segment an orange ... (more)
Speedy isn’t a huge fan of pasta but he had two helpings of tonight’s dinner. Chunks of chicken fillets, bacon, macaroni and colorful veggies were mixed with condensed mushroom soup to make this one pot dish. It’s thick, rich, creamy and mushroom-y. And it cooks in 30 minutes flat. Scoop and serve with buttered toast ... (more)
Among all the varieties of cabbage that I have tried, pechay is my favorite. Yes, pechay is a cabbage variety. When I was a kid, it was a mainstay in all nilaga (boiled beef or pork, generally) dishes. Later on, I would learn how good it is in stir fried dishes. Earlier today, our former ... (more)
Inexpensive, healthy and with the ability to absorb flavors like a sponge, tofu is a great ingredient to combine with meat, poultry or seafood. In this recipe, the partially cooked chicken and tofu were tossed with spices and aromatics and they all cooked together for another ten minutes — just enough time for them to ... (more)
For a rather intimate (or even romantic) lunch or dinner for two to four persons, a small whole chicken weighing about a kilogram is an ideal ingredient to create a dish with. Just split and butterfly the chicken, brown in butter the cook slowly in white wine and herbs. When the chicken is done, scoop ... (more)
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Casa is Spanish for house. CASA is also an acronym for Connie, Antonio, Sam and Alex. We are all surnamed Veneracion. We all love to take photos -- of anything that catches our fancy. It's a family obsession.
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In 2003, a time when I hadn't heard of the term "blog", I started a recipe website at cooking.houseonahill.net using a now defunct content management system that ran on ASP. Ok, never mind the geek talk, I'm sure you're not interested in that. The contents easily multiplied and, in 2004, I moved the food site to pinoycook.net. Always unhappy with the fact that the dot com versions of houseonahill and pinoycook weren't … (click here to read all »)
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