The Kitchen Sink

Breaded Chicken Cutlets (Baked)

Baked Breaded Chicken Cutlets

For an updated post with pictures read: Oven Baked Breaded Italian Chicken Cutlets: Step by Step with Pictures I am not the biggest fan of fried food, but I do enjoy the flavor that the breading can bring to food. Whereas fried food in my opinion needs to be eaten hot and fresh to enjoy …

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Roasted Green Chile Turkey Stew

Roasted Green Chile Turkey Stew

Every now and then there is a meal that you discover or create that becomes a standing fixture in your “toolbox” of go to meals that you not only enjoy preparing, but enter the pantheon of personal comfort foods. My rendition of green chile stew using Cookwell & Company Green Chile Stew is one of …

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Free Food – Re-growing your onions

Green Onions

I don’t know why it hasn’t occurred to me before, that green onions (also known as spring onions, green shallots, onion sticks, scallions, long onions, salad onions, syboes, baby onions, precious onions, or yard onions) are just like any other bulb that you would plant in the garden. And similarly they re-grow each year. I …

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Green Chile Stew – Cookwell & Company

New Mexico Green Chile Sauce

I openly admit that one some level I am a hypocrite for using a prepared “sauce / stew / gravy” to make a meal after the years of exaggerated horror and dismay when friends and even family have pulled out a jar of spaghetti sauce to serve with their pasta. In my defence, there are …

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Weird French Delicacy – Ortolan Bunting

Ortolan Bunting

As per usual, Bill and I were having a telephone conversation and he brought up the subject of the Ortolan Bunting, which is a small bird eaten as a delicay in France. Though for a long time the Ortolan has been protected, the law hasn’t really been enforced. Bill was discussing how the method of …

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