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6-22: Crispy Chicken Drumsticks

Jamie Martin Group 06: Poultry & Game, Section 2: Main Courses July 7, 2014June 17, 20201998 dinner, all-purpose flour, black pepper, bread crumbs, breaded, butter, canola oil, carrots, chicken, coated, crispy, deep fryer, deep-fried, dinner, dredged, drumsticks, easy, fried, fried chicken, Hutton house, inexpensive, lunch, pan-fried, paprika, party food, peeled, revisited, salt, sautéed, sliced, squash, summer squash, tender-crisp, vegetables, white bread, yellow onions, zucchini

Who doesn’t like drumsticks? Vegetarians, I suppose. But this is not a recipe for them. Book 1, Group 2 (Main Courses), Subgroup 6 (Poultry & Game) gives us 6-22: Crispy Chicken Drumsticks. This was cooked in tandem with 4-21: Herb-Roasted Potatoes.

Drumsticks were on sale, so drumsticks you will get. I think this is one of the ones I was making before I went out of town a few weeks ago, but I’ve been a bit behind, so the details have escaped me a bit. Not that it matters to you, anyway. 🙂

11-16: Indian Fried Fish

Jamie Martin Group 11: Fish & Seafood, Section 2: Main Courses July 5, 2014July 7, 2020all-purpose flour, bananas, blanched, bread crumbs, breaded, butter, canola oil, Caribbean, cashews, catfish, coated, cod, crème fraîche, curry powder, dinner, dredged, dry mustard, easy, eggs, fail, fairly expensive, fish, fish filets, flounder, fried, grouper, haddock, halibut, Indian, leeks, lemons, lunch, nuts, pan-fried, peeled, plantains, rockfish, salt, sautéed, seafood, sliced, sour cream, spice blends, turmeric, untested, West Indian, white bread, whitefish, yellow mustard

Another bit of real life distractions, but I refuse to let this die. Back to it, with an interesting dish: 11-16: Indian Fried Fish. 🐟

Um, okay. “Indian” is being used liberally here, as far as I can tell. It was an okay dish, but didn’t exactly conjure up images of India. This seems more like West Indies/Caribbean “Indian” than India “Indian”.

4-11: Potato Soufflé with Onions

Jamie Martin Group 04: Potatoes & Vegetables, Section 1: Appetizers & Starters June 21, 2014October 6, 202012-11-08 dinner, black pepper, boiled, butter, dinner, egg whites, egg yolks, eggs, fairly easy, French, garlic, gluten-free, green onions, half-and-half, inexpensive, jalapeño peppers, lunch, mashed potatoes, milk, nutmeg, potatoes, ramekins, red bell peppers, revisited, roach motel apt, side dish, simmered, soufflés, stiff peaks, vegetarian

I’ve been making a lot of potato recipes lately. There’s a 10 lb. bag in my pantry I’ve been working my way through, so expect a few more potato recipes over the next few weeks. We’ll start here with one I’ve made before–4-11: Potato Soufflé with Onions.

More of my handwriting. I’ve made this one before, and this time I remember the circumstances and my adaptations–see what good notes will do for you?

17-9: Brownies

Jamie Martin Group 17: Baked Goods, Section 3: Desserts & Baked Goods June 20, 2014August 31, 2020all-purpose flour, almonds, baked goods, baking powder, brownies, butter, chocolate, chocolate chips, cookies, creamed, dessert, double boiler, eggs, fairly easy, fairly inexpensive, favorites, gift ideas, granulated sugar, melted, nuts, pecans, revisited, snacks, stand mixer, Tarzana apt, unsweetened, vegetarian, walnuts

Here’s another dessert for you. Book 3, Group 3 (Desserts), Subgroup 17 (Baked Goods) gives us card #9: Brownies. I’ve made these a bazillion times, and they are a GREAT base for adding your own ingredients.

These are good, easy, and fast–the trifecta you’re never supposed to be able to achieve. I highly recommend them, and I keep this recipe on hand for whenever I want to make brownies. One big difference: these use actual chocolate, not cocoa powder. 🍫

6-4: Easy Stuffed Chicken Breasts

Jamie Martin Group 06: Poultry & Game, Section 2: Main Courses June 19, 2014June 17, 2020all-purpose flour, basted, boiled, boneless, breasts, butter, cheese, chicken, chicken bouillon, chicken broth, dinner, fairly easy, fairly inexpensive, Feta, filling, frozen, garlic, goat cheese, gravy, Hutton house, lemon juice, lemons, lunch, melted, miso, mushrooms, revisited, rice, sautéed, simmered, skinless, slit, spinach, stuffed, white wine

In 3-13: Velvety Carrot Soup, I talked about how I love old cookbooks for their colorful attempts at trying to make boring recipes sound exciting. Another cookbook “trope” is putting words like easy, simple or quick in the title of a recipe that would otherwise sound…well, not those things.

Sometimes they live up to their titles, and sometimes not. A prime example of the former would be 6-4: Easy Stuffed Chicken Breasts. To be honest, stuffing chicken breasts doesn’t even sound that hard to begin with, so I suppose it didn’t even need that qualifier.

Unless it sounded hard to you–if that’s the case, ignore that last sentence. 🙂 It’s really not that hard, is what I’m saying.

8-18: Tangy Beef Rolls

Jamie Martin Group 08: Beef, Section 2: Main Courses June 15, 2014July 2, 20201980s, all-purpose flour, appetizers, beef, black pepper, boneless, braised, butter, chopped, chuck roast, cranberries, creamy, dinner, fairly expensive, fairly hard, garnish, gravy, green bell peppers, green onions, jam/jelly/preserves, leeks, lunch, minced, mushrooms, pared, parsley, pork shoulder, red bell peppers, round steak, roux, salt, sautéed, tangy, toothpicks, untested, veal, vegetable broth, whipping cream

Catching up after a few weeks of IRL obligations. Let’s get back to it.

This was one of the 4 recipes cooked in the batch I mentioned in 17-28: Pound Cake. I was making a large amount of food to store up while I was gone for a week, and one of those recipes was 8-18: Tangy Beef Rolls. Sounds deliciously 80s.

Book 2, Group 2 (Main Courses), Subgroup 8 (Beef) gives us card #18: Tangy Beef Rolls. How do you resist something beef-related that describes itself as “tangy”? Mine didn’t come out as classy as the one in this picture, but it was still definitely edible. And somewhat tangy.

17-28: Pound Cake

Jamie Martin Group 17: Baked Goods, Section 3: Desserts & Baked Goods May 31, 2014September 5, 2020all-purpose flour, almond extract, almonds, baked goods, baking powder, breakfast, bundt, butter, cakes, cardamom, cinnamon, cut in, dessert, eggs, gift ideas, granulated sugar, half-and-half, lemon juice, lemons, loaf pan, orange juice, revisited, ring mold, snacks, stand mixer, Tarzana apt, vanilla extract, vegetarian, whipping cream

I went on a cooking spree and made 4 recipes last night. 17-28: Pound Cake was the last of what I cooked, when we were scouring the house looking for a dessert. 🍰

Hey! This one has MY handwriting on it! I said it was good a few years ago, let’s see if it’s still good.

Spoiler alert: it was. 🙂

7-2: Pork Chops with Tomatoes

Jamie Martin Group 07: Pork, Section 2: Main Courses May 29, 2014June 19, 2020black pepper, blanched, broiled, butter, Cheddar, cheese, cilantro, deglazed, dinner, dried herbs, egg-free, fairly easy, fairly inexpensive, gluten-free, green beans, green onions, Italian parsley, marjoram, pan-fried, pork, pork chops, salt, seared, snipped, string beans, Swiss, tomatoes, untested, vegetables

Okay. This one sounds weird. It looks weird too. But you know what? It actually worked out okay. I had some green beans from the CSA box that desperately needed to be used, so here’s what we did with them.

Pork chops + tomatoes + green beans + sliced cheese sounds odd. Book 1, Group 2 (Main Courses), Subgroup 7 (Pork) gives us 7-2: Pork Chops with Tomatoes. I had pasta and salad ready on the stand-by in case this went south, but luckily I didn’t need them.

4-13: Fennel au Gratin

Jamie Martin Group 04: Potatoes & Vegetables, Section 1: Appetizers & Starters May 28, 2014October 13, 2020all-purpose flour, appetizers, au gratin, black pepper, blanched, broiled, butter, Cheddar, cheese, cheese sauce, dips, easy, egg yolks, eggs, fairly expensive, fennel, melted, milk, Monterey Jack, salt, side dish, untested, vegetables, vegetarian

Fennel has been a challenge ever since we started receiving CSA boxes a year or two ago. I really never cooked with it before and even now, finding recipes to use with it (that I’ll eat) is difficult.

If you’ve never had fennel, it tastes like black licorice. You eat the bulb part, and usually cut off the stalks & feathery parts. I usually save those parts and put them in when I make chicken stock.

We ended up with two very large fennel bulbs, and so I decided to make 4-13: Fennel au Gratin, because you can’t go wrong when you cover things in cheese.

We paired this with some English cheddar tortilla/gluten-free something-or-other chips as well as put it on top of some veggie patties–both were pretty good. It worked well as a dip–it might be too cheesy as a side dish, unless you added more fennel.

5-22: Crêpes with Chicken

Jamie Martin Group 05: Eggs & Cheese, Section 1: Appetizers & Starters May 17, 2014October 14, 2020all-purpose flour, black pepper, breakfast, broiled, butter, cheese, chicken, chopped, cooked chicken, crêpes, dinner, eggs, fairly easy, French, inexpensive, lunch, melted, milk, Mozzarella, mushrooms, parsley, peeled, roux, salt, sautéed, shredded, untested, yellow onions

This arose out of a desire to use up some leftover chicken more so than a desire to eat another meat-based crêpe recipe so soon after 5-24: Meat-Filled Crêpes, but it turned out to be pretty good in its own right.

5-22: Crêpes with Chicken really should be “Crêpes with Chicken and Mushrooms”, as mushrooms are just as much a part of this as the chicken.

I had originally considered making it at breakfast, but I’m glad I didn’t–it’s definitely a savory dish. Crêpes are popular in this book–all this practice is making me quite the crêpe-master.