Belated Happy Holidays!

 

Hope eveyone had a great holiday filled with good food and good company!

 

Mike & Katie

The Great Chicken Divide

Katie and I are of two different opinions on this recipe. I thought it was a nice change from the standard roast chicken and gave you a kind of funky sauce to go with everything. Katie found the sage too overpowering and the idea of the milk making a “cheese” in the presence of the lemon to be a bit off-putting. I will concede that I don’t think this recipe is for everyone, but in my opinion in produced one of the most moist roast chickens we have ever made.

Bubbling away in the oven

 

One thing to note is what pot you cook this in, as this created what I like to call an overnighter, where the splatter was stuck to the pot so much that it had to soak overnight.
 

Not the prettiest shot ever but it does the job

Recipe: Chicken in Milk

 

Corn-y Muffins

 

These little bad boys came out of left field and just floored me. Katie found this recipe in the Best Recipes Ever cookbook and made them to accompany some soup we were having. These muffins elevated the humble soup to a new level and throughout the meal I could not heap enough praise on Katie for this amazing discovery. Not dissimilar to having corn bread with chilli, these muffins have the subtle grittiness of the corn meal but also had bursts of corn kernels and the freshness of the green onion.

 

I was a little wary at first as the recipe included creamed corn and this was not something that we ate in our household. Not that we were above creamed corn, but I think it is something that my mom would attest to having ‘god darn picky eaters’ as sons. If we were going to have corn from a can then it was the whole kernel variety. I took a lot of stances like this as a child but fortunately my tastes have matured and I can now wholly recommend muffins with creamed corn in them.

Recipe: Corn Muffins with Green Onions