Saturday, July 30, 2005
Carnival of the Recipes Is Up, Plus Food Talk
Before I forget to post this the way I forgot to post a recipe, let me note that this week’s Carnival of the Recipes is up, hosted by Feisty Repartee.
I had intended to invent a recipe using boneless country style ribs, but they went bad before I could use them. Very sad. Then there’s the chicken I made a few days ago that came out good, but was accidental and for which I wasn’t keeping track enough to make it a recipe. Poor Deb couldn’t eat it because the smell of ginger and then the sauce starting to burn on made her sick. Silly misnamed morning sickness!
It started out being pieces of chicken, fried in a little butter with spices added. I was going to make it more ginger-oriented than usual, but half of the remaining powdered ginger plunged out of the bottle; probably a good half tablespoon of it. From there it was working with and softening that main flavoring agent, so I ended up with what I referred to as the chicken euivalent of candied sweet potatoes. I added extra butter, brown sugar, white sugar, the other spices like garlic powder, red and black pepper, and ended up with chicken chunks cooked in and coated with an almost carmelized spicy ginger sweet sauce, just starting to char on in places. It was yummy.
Anyway, in the end I was too busy and distracted to dig up a borrowed recipe and post that instead for CotR. Oh well.