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2019 - Week 8 Cooking Results

Tomato Curry Chicken

Too much condensed tomato soup taste. It was not an ingredient in a larger balanced dish, but just overwhelmed everything else.

Chorizo & Chickpea Braised Chicken Thighs

I adjusted this quite a bit. Well, some. I had some leftover onions so I added those to the mixture. So it ended up having quite a bit more stuff around the chicken then chicken itself, which was fine. It turned out to be quite tasty. Good stuff. There is a lot of the stuff around the chicken left so I’ll probably make some rice to put it over for lunch.

Pasta With Sausage, Basil and Mustard

This was surprisingly simple and delicious. As a fan of mustard, this really is right up my alley. I had to slow down the process as I waited for the water to boil. I did, however, leave the pan on very very low, while we were eating, so I over cooked the leftovers a bit, so I can’t report on how they were, fairly. It’s a good thing.

Chicken Salad

I have been getting home later than I intend to this week and combined with my recent desire to nap after work. So an hour or so of running the sous vide, didn’t seem to be the way to go, so I planned on a snack. I got everything put together and got the chicken going. Then took the snack downstairs to Shannon and we watched TV for a bit while the chicken cooked with the salt, lemon and tarragon. Shortly after the minimum time finished, I headed back upstairs to finish the recipe. I didn’t follow it fully as I know how to make a chicken salad. I should’ve let it cool down further, but it was already closing in on 8:PM. So I mixed them in with the mayo and mustard and vegetables and served them on rolls and it was pretty good. I like the process of it because you have a nice perfectly cooked chicken as a basis for a salad. There is, however, something to be said for the torn chicken from a rotisserie, but even so, it’s a nice alternative with a bit of extra fat and flavor from chicken thighs.

Hamburgers

White park beef, good stuff.