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Roasted Chicken with Shallot White Wine Pan Sauce
I’m sure we are like most households; we eat a lot of chicken. I do try to be aware of it though and really do try not to serve chicken more than once a week. I mean one can only eat so much boneless skinless bla bla bla. Don’t get me wrong boneless skinless chicken has its place (like Thai Green Curry) but it can get boring. Enter the roasted chicken.
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Parchment Baked Fish with Steamed Baby Bok Choy
If there’s one thing I can count on this would be it; nights my better half comes home from a week away at work, the one and only request I ever get is to have veggies with dinner. Not that I don’t always serve up a vegetable with dinner but on these nights I do try to make sure there are extras and they are a more substantial part of the meal. Apparently at work he is quite deprived of all things leafy and green. Now I’ve never seen it, but I’m sure the cafeteria up on site does serve up veggies on a regular basis but considering the amount of people they cook for daily I can only imagine that they are a lovely frozen precut variety that sit in a bain marie after being over cooked to begin with. They likely take on that green-gray mushy color. Is mushy a color? Ah well, you get my drift. Not appetizing at all! -
Chinese Beef and Cabbage
There’s a Chinese restaurant in Seattle I love and miss now that I have moved away. Everyone I have ever brought there has loved it too. Now don’t get the wrong idea about this restaurant. There are no fancy tablecloths. It is not fine dining and I’m not even sure there is a sign out front. It is located in a shopping center in the International District and it is the end unit. There must be a dozen other restaurants in the same center and on a Friday or Saturday night even when it is cold and rainy and even when there is no one in the rest of the restaurants in the center and there are plenty of tables available for the taking, this favorite restaurant of mine will have a line out the door and people are happy to wait. Amazing. The food is great. The ingredients are fresh and the portion sizes are generous and very favorably priced. Above all it is consistently all of these things. It doesn’t matter what day of the week you walk in there or how many times you order a dish, it is always the same and always amazing. And let me tell you, over the six years I lived in Seattle I have been there maybe ten to twelve (dozen) times. Have I mentioned that its amazing?