April, spring has sprung here in the Rockies. The forecast for this weekend in Salt Lake is sunny and warm, nearing 80F. Good grilling weather.
It has been a few years since the last poultry challenge, so that's the theme I picked for this month.
Chicken. Duck. Turkey. Quail, squab, pheasant. Maybe ostrich if you can find it.
Grilled, smoked, roasted, soups, stews, salads, stir fry, southern fried, Korean fried. French fricassee. Greek souvlaki. Italian parmesan. Indian curry. Cajun gumbo. Hot wings.
So everybody, get busy and give us the bird this month!
It's not much, but it was really delicious. I had one grilled chicken thigh left and it was freezing and snowy yesterday. I took the last of the celery, a carrot, onion, garlic and parsley and sweated in a little evoo along with the thigh bone. I added a quart of plain Jane chicken stock and two bullion cubes reserving the meat. In another pan I cooked some tortellini then rinsed, oiled and set aside. At the end I added the meat, put the tortellini in bowls and ladled the brodo over top and served. Perfect for what felt like a cold winters day.
I'm behind in posting.....
Earlier this month:
I had some frozen chicken breast. To put things in perspective, thats generally about 3 or 4 in a 500 gr pack
In this case 4
I used half and marinated in my homemade calypso mustard, mixed with paprika powder and salt. Cooked on the braai and ate with bread
The left over 2 were marinated in yoghurt with garam masala, cumin, garlic (fresh) paprika powder and lots of ginger (fresh) and chili (fresh). Then taken out of the marinated and also cooked on the braai.
The left over marinade was put in a pot and cooked with a couple of whole freshly harvested cherry tomatoes.
The chicken was added to tjis concoction. The nice thing about that, is that you can char the chicken without worrying if it is cooked through and through. It will finish cooking in the sauce.
It's my easy going version of a tikka massala
I kepty fire a bit too low, would have liked more char on the chivken. Tasty none the less
Yesterday:
Chicken marinated in homemade massaman curry paste.
I made a mistake in the paste and usef much hotter chili's than should be. I don't mind too much though.... I like a bit of heat, and I find a lot disappears when grilling:
Yes, chicken paprikash is very tasty, especially over home made egg noodles. I was thinking of doing the Hungarian version of spaetzle, nokedli, but went with flat noodles.
Getting down to the wire, not much time left folks!
Thighs on sale this week so I bought a "family pack". Did two tonight - seasoned with salt, pepper,a roasted garlic powder, and smoked paprika - skin side down in a cold pan (cast iron) and brought to medium heat. While that was heating up I shucked some fresh Florida sweet corn and steamed them in an inch of salted water till it smell like corn. Made a salad of mixed greens, artichoke hearts, kalamata olives, red pepper, shaved red onion, and shaved sheep's milk Pecorino Romano.
Now that you turkeys have settled down a bit with the puns, time for a quick note. Last day of the month. I'll post the results tomorrow after work, about 24 hours from now, around 8 am Mountain Daylight Time. Some excellent work from the usual suspects, as expected.
And when they wander out into the road they get . . . pillowed!!! A friend of mine down the road a piece has chickens too and white ones to boot. One of his got pillowed by a truck and it looked like a mini blizzard.
Okay, boys and girls, this is it, the April 2021 challenge is over.
The monthly challenge concept was the idea of @eastshores with the first one taking place in April, 2013, theme was gelatin. So we have had 8 years of challenges, 96 episodes, so to speak. This challenge kicked off the ninth year.
This 97th challenge had 18 submissions from only 7 different contenders. And all of them former challenge winners. Kind of sad to see such low participation numbers, but we did see some great food! And a couple of the entries had me making a batch of chicken paprikash.
@butzy posted 5 entries, that massaman curry looked great.
@eastshores chicken and rice looked like some serious comfort food.
I was surprised to see only chicken. I thought for sure someone would do duck breasts, or some sort of roast, grilled or smoked turkey parts. Not really surprised squab and ostrich were no shows.
But the dish that I most wanted to taste was @planethoff's Peruvian chicken. That's the winning dish for this one.
Wow! Thank you @teamfat Quite the honor, even though it was a boring boneless skinless chicken breast, it was very delicious.
However, I had to make the Paprikash too. Haven't had it in years and it looked heavenly.
I have a few ideas for this months competition, and I will post it in a little bit
Wow! Thank you @teamfat Quite the honor, even though it was a boring boneless skinless chicken breast, it was very delicious.
However, I had to make the Paprikash too. Haven't had it in years and it looked heavenly.
I have a few ideas for this months competition, and I will post it in a little bit
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