Cooking! It's become a much more exciting hobby since quarantine, along with baking (we've hit the highest per capita sourdough starter per house, ever, I think) and gardening.
The past few years, we have tried to shift our cooking from buying the ingredients we want, to buying what is on sale and making something delicious with it.
Of course, I always keep staples at home (onions, spices, &c) so this makes it easier.
I was able to pick up a whole chicken last week. It had been flattened in the package and I thought it was spatchcocked. It turned out that it had just been squished, but I picked it up for 99 cents!
I had set my sights on spatchcocking it, though, so I hit up Duck Duck Go to find a recipe. I settled on this one , but didn't have lemons, beer, or carrots. It turned out not to be a problem. In fact, this was one of my best recipes ever.
If you want to make this like I did, substitute the carrots with diced peeled potatoes, and the beer for wine. I also threw a bay leaf into the broth.
The result was a delicate, juicy, absolutely top notch chicken.
Also, after removing the chicken from the dutch oven, I covered it with foil for ten minutes while I removed the potatoes with a slotted spoon, then strained the juices for a gravy. The potatoes didn't really need gravy, but I'll never waste those juices!
What is the best dish you have made during quarantine?
-Jeff
That looks great! Not sure I can name my top dish... I live by myself so been trying to keep things pretty simple, but have definitely made some killer steaks and a bunch of different vegetable dishes :-)
There's an episode of a show called V is for Vino where they make this steak, it's like 2 inches thick, and they're just spooning boiling butter over it in a cast iron skillet.
Amazing.
I haven't had steak in quite a while, unfortunately, but am learning to cook veggies better.
only .99 for the entire thing? what a deal
Gotta love clearance!
It looks very delicious. I'm surprised that fresh chicken is so cheap! It will cost $10 in Japan :D
It usually isn't! $10 is common here, too. The chicken had been squished a little so it was marked down to 99¢