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WCC16: Chicken Plum Pie

By mlb, on May 8th, 2007%

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I think I totally forgot about last month’s Weekend Cookbook Challenge. That makes me sad as I think that’s the first one I’ve missed for the past year or so. I’m also going to blame it on my cold last month and rejoin WCC this month as if nothing had happened…la-la-la-la-la.

So, for WCC#16 the theme is “something new”. Perfect timing, as I just got a new book while in Ashland last month — Shakespeare’s Kitchen: Renaissance Recipes for the Contemporary Cook by Francine Segan.

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It’s really a beautiful book and a lot of the recipes caught my eye but the chicken plum tart was the one I wanted to try first. I did change a few things, though (as is my way, it appears). The original recipe seemed kind of dessert-y with cinnamon, brown sugar and cloves. Instead, I opted to try adding fresh thyme . . . → Read More: WCC16: Chicken Plum Pie

To Do List

By mlb, on May 8th, 2007%

Rooftop garden at the Hotel Elliott, Astoria, OR

Things to do this week:
1. Write up post for WCC16 about chicken-plum pie from new Shakespeare cookbook
2. Vacuum
3. Finalize dinner plan for Saturday night when jwa’s parents are over for dinner (thinking rosemary, red wine & garlic marinated and grilled lamb tenderloin over lentils and carrots with sauteed green & yellow squash and Parmesan flatbread — or something like that…)
4. Mop kitchen and back porch
5. Plant the last of the dahlia bulbs
6. Post about grapefruit-rosemary-vodka cocktail
7. Post about lemon-rosemary chicken over crispy white beans
8. Put up a picture of the new fence (okay, I can do that right now!)

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