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Chicken Pie with Biscuits

This recipe for Chicken Pie is time consuming, but well worth it. Simmering the vegetables in broth and then later building a sauce with that veggie-infused broth makes for a very flavorful dish. Without the traditional cream-based sauce of chicken pot pie, this freezes very well. So make double! 

4 cups low-sodium [...]

Chicken Burgers

A twist on a regular grilled chicken sandwich, chicken burgers stay juicy and moist throughout, eliminating the chicken breast issue of undercooked thick middles and dried out thin ends.  Since boneless breasts have virtually no fat, these don’t cook down in size at all – so make them exactly to whatever bun size you want.  [...]

Chicken and Pinto Bean Soup

Another delicious and inexpensive soup to make.  Loosely based on a recipe in the Good Carb Cookbook, I added just a few things. 

2.5 cups dry pinto beans
water
1 large onion, chopped fine
1 green pepper, chopped
1 can of diced tomatoes with green chilis
2 large bone-in chicken breasts, skin cut off
1 cup of corn
2 cubes chicken or [...]

Chicken or Pork in Balsamic Reduction

This recipe has a very tangy, flavorful sauce that works well on chicken or pork cutlets. It’s an easy but relatively low-fat recipe.
4 chicken breast cutlets or boneless pork chopsolive oil1.5 cups chicken broth1/4 cup balsamic vinegar1 yellow onion, chopped finepinch of dried parsley2 tbsp chilled butter1 tbsp minced garlicsplash of red wine
Heat oil [...]

Creamy Turkey and Wild Rice Soup

This was a post-Thanksgiving recipe, but I just tried it out now – I made the stock from just the carcass of a turkey breast I had roasted, rather than doing a whole turkey (a breast is like 1/20th of the work!) and the stock came out just fine. For 2 or 3 people [...]

Creamy Chicken with Veggies

This is a comfort food for sure, with a thick cream sauce that soothes the tummy (and probably sits on the arteries). You can put all sorts of fresh and frozen veggies in, my favorites are peas, pimentos, and water chestnuts. But your mileage may vary.
4 chicken breasts, cooked and cut/ripped into small [...]

Chicken Marsala

I used this recipe from an older issue of Cook’s Illustrated, it’s a good one for chicken marsala. It’s really quite time consuming, though. Which explains why “quick-n-easy chicken marsala” recipes never taste as good as I’d like. I followed their recipe to the letter and it did yield, as promised, crispy [...]

Chicken Lentil Stew

This is really hardly a recipe. But it is something I cook, and it is quick, cheap, and healthy – which are winning combinations for most people.
2 boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut in 1 inch chunks1 tbsp olive oil1 tbsp soy sauce1 box of whole grain seasoned rice (such as pilaf) or 2 heaping [...]

Honey Mustard Woes

My husband and I are both big fans of honey mustard, and we’ve been hooked on a singular brand for quite a while now. Since moving to Boston, I stock up on this honey mustard whenever I’m in New York, and my mother will often send five or six bottles in a package for me. [...]