A Week (or two!) of Valentine Cooking

My plan for last week was to have one recipe to make each day for Valentine's Day. And then I got sick. I successfully made the stuffed cow heart. I followed it the next day with something easy - chicken pot pie. It wasn't the beautiful, fancy chicken pot pie I had planned because I … Continue reading A Week (or two!) of Valentine Cooking →

A Year of Chicken Paillard

One of the very first Thomas Keller recipes I ever made was Chicken Paillard. From that first time, even though it wasn't perfect, it became an instant favorite. Chicken Paillad with dressed arugula and sauce vierge is on our menu at least monthly. Most recipes, I end up putting my own twist on after I've … Continue reading A Year of Chicken Paillard →

Recipe #11 – Roasted Whole Chicken: Thomas Keller And Gordon Ramsay

Recipe #11 Roasted Whole Chicken Thomas Keller Teaches Cooking Techniques II: Meats, Stocks and Sauces Chapter 09 AND Gordon Ramsay Teaches Cooking II: Restaurant Recipes at Home Chapter 09 This is something I've wanted to do for weeks: take two recipes I loved of the same dish and combine their best parts. I never had … Continue reading Recipe #11 – Roasted Whole Chicken: Thomas Keller And Gordon Ramsay →

Recipe #10: Thomas Keller’s Fried Chicken

Recipe #10 Fried Chicken Thomas Keller Teaches Cooking Techniques II: Meats, Stocks, and Sauces Chapter 05 After a week of being laid up in bed from a particularly nasty virus, I'm finally back to food! I cooked Thomas Keller's Ad Hoc fried chicken right before falling ill. I started with a whole chicken, breaking it … Continue reading Recipe #10: Thomas Keller’s Fried Chicken →

Recipe #5 – Thomas Keller’s Oven Roasted Chicken

Recipe #5 Oven Roasting: Chicken Thomas Keller Teaches Cooking Techniques: Meats, Stocks, and Sauces Chapter 09 I'll admit it. This recipe was intimidating. Not as bad as the short ribs recipe that takes about a week of cooking and sitting and more cooking, but close. This chicken took me 4.5 days to make. About … Continue reading Recipe #5 – Thomas Keller’s Oven Roasted Chicken →

Recipe #3: Gordon Ramsay’s Szechuan Chicken and Noodles

Recipe #3 Szechuan Chicken and Noodles Gordon Ramsay Teaches Cooking II: Restaurant Recipes at Home Chapter 11Gordon Ramsay's completed Szechuan Chicken and Noodles As a reminder from when I cooked the Roasted Whole Chicken in the last post, I made the chicken with freshly ground pepper, as I couldn't get my hands on Szechuan … Continue reading Recipe #3: Gordon Ramsay’s Szechuan Chicken and Noodles →

Recipe #2: Gordon Ramsay’s Szechuan Roasted Whole Chicken

Recipe #2 Szechuan Roasted Whole Chicken Gordon Ramsay Teaches Cooking II: Restaurant Recipes at Home Chapter 09 Gordon Ramsay's Completed Roasted Whole Chicken NOTE: Before I get into the details of this recipe, I have to say that after much looking I discovered that szechuan pepper is both very hard to find in stores and … Continue reading Recipe #2: Gordon Ramsay’s Szechuan Roasted Whole Chicken →

Recipe #1: Thomas Keller’s Chicken Paillard

Recipe #1: Chicken Paillard Thomas Keller Cooking Techniques II: Meats, Stocks, and Sauces Chapter 03 With Sauce Vierge, Chapter 19 Thomas Keller's completed Chicken Paillard Dish Today I decided to tackle Thomas Keller's Chicken Paillard. I started by making the topping, his sauce vierge found in Chapter 19, since he already had it made at the start of … Continue reading Recipe #1: Thomas Keller’s Chicken Paillard →