Chicken Soup

So this was the very last of the chicken from Fox Hollow.  It was a stewing chicken (hen that no longer lays eggs, thus to tough for regular cooking).  Everything is going along fine, got some of the goodness stewed out of the bones, some of the fat rendered off the chicken.

The problem came at the end.  I added a cup of rice, and thought, hey that doesn't look like enough, and then added another cup of rice.   The rice grew, expanded, sucked up liquid and the dish really became more of a soupy chicken and rice.

Still good, very good, but heavy on the rice.  I'll have to find other chickens to make soup out of.  The thing I like best about them is that they are usually sold for just above processing fee (since they've added their farm value by their eggs) .

Classic Chicken Teriyaki (p224 Food & Wine July 2013) 

This was fantastic.  Simple, quick and other the the acquiring of the ingredients, a very nice recipe.  So this came together in about the time it took to make the rice.  I'm making this again, especially since I have all the ingredients to do so (bought the frying peppers from Cleverley Farms).  Maybe next week I'll take pictures.

Pumpkin Mac & Cheese

I forgot to add pumpkin. 

So this was just mac and cheese, though I used my own bread crumbs.  I used some Milton Creamery Prairie Breeze  for the sauce, and then for the bread crumb topping layer (butter, crumbs and cheese), I used some blue cheese (I thought I would remember, but clearly I don't) for the top.  Then, because I remembered that I had a few slices of La Quercia Prosciutto, I put them between the layer of pasta and sauce and the topping.

BATE (bacon arugula tomato and Egg)

Fresh tomato season is almost over.  And this makes me sad.  Butcher Crick is done for the market season (yesterday), but these were good as always.

Chili

So I may have been a bit liberal with the cinnamon (part of the spice blend) because you could smell that over the rest of the chili smell all day.  I started at around 8:30 AM and served it around 6:00 PM.  I had my normal list of ingredients, a new type of beans (the ones I normally buy are no longer available where I usually shop).  I may have made it a bit too spicy (the heat level was just about right for me, but a bit to much for Shannon (6 jalapenos apparently is to much).  I don't think that I had enough onions, but it still worked out.  I like it, so I suppose I will be eating it for the next several days.  A lot of the items were from the DTFM.

Chicken Tacos

Simple and quick.  I did have these soft corn tortillas that I picked up at Gateway , these were very good.  They may replace my locally produced source, but I doubt it.  But they were really good.