Cooking Meh

[akirlu]

Yesterday I tried Jamie Oliver's Chicken in Milk recipe. Nice enough, but not the Best Chicken Recipe Evar as rhapsodized by Faith Durand over at The Kitchn. Admittedly, I didn't use the sage because I went out back only to find that the buttercups have choked the life out of my sage bush. Bother. There need to be some changes in the back garden this year by golly. But I find it hard to believe that just skipping the sage makes the difference between orgasmic flights of ecstasy and "Eh, nice enough." I may try it again some time, but it's a long time to spend to get a so-so bird. Possibly it could be adapted to the slow cooker so one can ignore it all day.

Also used this week's batch of no-knead dough to make cinnamon bread. Eh. It's perfectly nice, but it's not a match made in heaven. Cinnamon bread want's to be less crusty and a bit more cake-like than this approach produces. I guess I need to practice on the old-fashioned kind of high-fuss bread recipes if I'm going to make cinnamon bread. Or just get it at Costco.

But the no-knead bread approach is good for creating counter space -- since the various successful loaves, I've moved the bread maker down to the basement. I figure it can sit there for a few months while I decide whether I'm ever going to want to bother with it, and then, most likely, it will wind up at St. Vincent de Paul.

Comments

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Well, I like buttercups in principle, but, like bamboo, they clearly must be permitted only in carefully circumscribed containers.

[crazysoph.livejournal.com]

I'm just getting back to LJ after a very long time away - just looking through a few journals individually; I, too, was caught by the detail of buttercups choking the life out of your sage bush.

Yikes!

Crazy(and what did they have against the sage bush anyway?)Soph

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Buttercup is anexatious. For various reasons we've been neglecting the yard, and at the moment it's a bit of a battleground for dominance between the various aggressively anexatious cultivars: blackberry, bindweed, English Ivy, honeysuckle, and buttercups. Empirical curiosity inclines me to see who wins out, but sadly, I suspect I Must Do Something, and soon. Oh, for a gardening staff.