Entries Tagged as ‘Poultry’

December 24, 2007

Christmas Duck

We are about to head off for our Christmas dinner. While we are used to home-cooked meals on Christmas Eve - ham, turkey or roast beef were the usual suspects - several years ago we just…. stopped making Christmas dinner for the two of us. There were so many things we wanted to make, but [...]

October 9, 2007

(Mostly) 100 Mile Thanksgiving on Foodtv.ca

Due to my work schedule and a few other concerns, we had our Thanksgiving dinner last weekend. We decided to do a 100 mile Thanksgiving dinner, and I wrote about the experience for Foodtv.ca.
It was a huge amount of work putting this dinner together, mostly through planning out what to have and where to get [...]

October 2, 2007

Ranch Chicken Casserole Experiment

With the husband away on business, I tend to fall into my single-me mode of eating: a box of Stove-Top stuffing, or a bag of popcorn for dinner. “This is silly,” I thought while at work one day. “This is my chance to truly experiment with a recipe, try it out, and then I’m the [...]

June 23, 2007

Tyson Foods going Antibiotic-Free

Tyson Foods, one of the United States’ largest poultry producers, has announced that they will no longer be using antibiotics for their fresh chicken sold in stores. The chicken will cost slightly more as a result of this change, but they anticipate that the change will actually increase demand for their chicken.
Personally, I know that [...]

May 26, 2007

Ranch Chicken and Tri-Color Pasta

Sometimes, you don’t want to make anything complicated for dinner, but you also don’t want to rip open a box of Kraft Dinner and call it a night. It’s times like this you need a nice, easy “feel-good” meal.
This is a recipe that we stumbled across a long time ago, and it’s been in our [...]

March 20, 2007

Asian-Inspired Brined Chicken

I wanted to try something new, and I’ve never tried brining before. Unfortunately, on the day I wanted to try this our intarweb was down and I couldn’t look up how to do it. So, I reached into the recesses of my memory and pulled this recipe out of nowhere.
My tastebuds kept telling me about [...]