Last night’s dinner: tandoori chicken, curried cauliflower, and naan. The dinner was fantastic, and we didn’t even need to pay restaurant prices.
Tonight, I’ll post the chicken, and post the other recipes over the next few days.
Tandoori Chicken Recipe
Tandoori Chicken
4 large chicken breasts
Juice of one lemon
1 teaspoon salt
1½ cups plain yogurt
1/2 onion, finely chopped
1 clove of garlic, minced
1 teaspoon freshly grated ginger
2 teaspoons garam masala
1 teaspoon cayenne
1/2 teaspoon turmeric
2 teaspoons chopped cilantro
Make three deep cuts into the chicken breasts on one side, and turn them over and make three deep cuts on
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This keeps showing up on my menu plan, and I keep not sharing the recipe. That is because I keep forgetting to take pictures of it. This time, I remembered, but not until I’d already carved the chicken.
Roasting a chicken is super easy and very delicious. And your house will smell incredible!
Roasted Rosemary and Lemon Chicken
Roasted Rosemary and Lemon Chicken
1 chicken, 3½ to 4 pounds
2 small lemons
Salt and pepper
4 cloves garlic
1 medium onion
5 or 6 sprigs of rosemary.
Olive oil
Preheat the oven to 325°.
Remove the giblets, if your
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Apparently, I’m continuing my trend this week of utterly ignoring my menu plan. Wednesday morning, I was surfing the web and found this fun food blog, and then this amazing-looking chicken recipe. I couldn’t get it out of my mind. It haunted me all day. I told myself, “Self, you can make those next week”, but I wouldn’t listen. So I made them Wednesday night.
Of course, there were some changes. I don’t buy pre-seasoned bread crumbs, so I had to adapt that right away. I used some of the crumbs I keep in my freezer, and added a little oregano,
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I’m sorry I haven’t written since Thursday! I meant to post a menu plan yesterday for Menu Plan Monday, but I’ve been under the weather lately, and just wasn’t up to spending much time at my computer yesterday.
I also haven’t felt up to grocery shopping, so yesterday was “make due with whatever is in the fridge and freezer” day. It’s a nice thing to have a decently stocked kitchen, and although I find myself wishing I’d done some batch cooking recently, I was pretty happy with last night’s dinner: Chicken Piccata with creamy polenta.
Chicken Piccata
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Chicken with Shallots and Buttered Noodles
This is one of our favorite dinners around here. The sauce is so silky and rich and decadent. The whole dinner is really quick to make, and affordable, but tastes like something I spent hours on.
Chicken with Shallots
4 chicken breasts
Salt and pepper
3 tablespoons butter, divided
1 tablespoon olive oil
3 shallots, chopped
2 cloves garlic, chopped
1/2 cup dry white wine
1/2 cup chicken broth
Heat the olive oil and 1 tablespoon of the butter in a large skillet over medium heat.
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