Showing posts with label chicken. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chicken. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

The Schnitzel Whisperer


Chicken breast cut into even, horizontal thirds with my sushi knife, and pounded yet thinner still. Egg, breaded, fried.  Before I got the hang of it, I kept the oil too hot, and I had to bread all the cutlets in advance so I could keep rotating fresh chicken in to keep the temperature down.  Now I use a lower temperature, and can bread the cutlets as I go along and feed the kids at the same time (they sit on stools at a butcher block to my back as a cook).  Multitasking through a a couple pounds of cutlets and feeding the kids, I said 'just LOOK at this!  I am the f*ing Schnitzel Whisperer.'


Saturday, September 26, 2009

Friday NIght Chicken


In 'Kim', Rudyard Kipling describes chicken 'stewed to rags with prunes and olives'.  I keep it in mind for Friday night chicken -- though I didn't have prunes and olives last night.  Two (or three) kinds of soy sauce, and strawberry jam are the staple ingredients.  And Kosher chicken, 'cause it's shabbat.  Simmer long and slow, and broil to crisp.