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Staff Meals from Chanterelle
By David Waltuck, Melicia Phillips
Workman Publishing Company - 2000
Roast Chicken with Root Vegetables & Cider : page 142
Chop veggies, scatter around a roasting pan. Set a chicken, slathered with butter, in the center, season with salt & pepper, pour in two cups of cider and shove it in a 400 degree oven. And it comes out just yummy.
I made a few changes -- I used some fennel I had left over from another dish and skipped the cauliflower the recipe called for -- just didn't sound good to me. Also, I didn't really scatter the veggies "without crowding them" as the recipe directs, as I used a pot rather than a pan -- so my veggies were more braised than roasted. Still delicious.
Once the pan comes out of the oven, you have to remove the chicken and veggies, and reduce the remaining cider to a thickened sauce. Tasty.
Although the whole chicken makes a pretty presentation, next time I'll go ahead and use a cut-up chicken. Easier for a weeknight. But I will use a kosher chicken -- I used my first-ever kosher chicken for this recipe and it was delectable.
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Spiced Applesauce : page 303
This is a really nice, really simple, really tasty applesauce. I probably overdid the the pepper a smidgen -- still very enjoyable.
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Warm Lentil Salad : page 322
This was really tasty and easy. I followed the directions exactly and it was quite good. But I think the previous reviewer is correct about the addition of more of the veggies and agree as well that an entire stick of butter isn't really necessary ... and I never say no to more butter.
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