My new blog!

Hey friends,


Welcome to my new blog. This is intended for all varying types of foodies. The foodies who only eat at the best restaurants, the foodies that spend their days and nights cooking, and the foodies that order pizza every day. Yeah you. We all have one thing in common: our love for food. So fuck the whole I don't cook thing you have going- its not very pretty on you. Cooking is the new basketball. Its sexy, fun, and gets you smelly. So get your hands dirty and go for it. One idea I've been playing with is meals in 20 min - for the on the go college student or working mother. I mastered the art of 20 minute meals my senior year of college when I had exactly 20 min to cook.. and eat. Fun.


But the point is, anyone can cook. I'm sick of hearing my friends say they can't. All you have to do is take a bunch of foods you like, throw them in a pan with some oil, and go nuts. The rest of this blog follows that golden rule. Only in some more detail. But the rule persists- regardless of the ridiculous hilla- concoctions, the rule is, once again- take a bunch of foods you like and throw them together. Don't think. Just cook.

And never stop singing. Or dancing.


Enjoy.

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Chicken with fruit preserves, cranberry, and wine


There are two things I love adding to chicken: a good marmelade/homemade preserve (cranberry, mixed-fruit, anything) and wine.

So I combined those two things a few weeks mixed in with some of my favorite spices and heaven came out.  This week, I decided to add leftover cranberry sauce from Thanksgiving (see recipe below).

Even the beginner can wing this one.

Prep time: like 5 minutes
Cook time: 1 hr

Ingredients: 
Chicken breast
Fruit preserve
White marsala wine ($3.00 at stores- you can cook with it every week for a yr and not run out)
Touch of powdered ginger (1/2 tablespoons)
Salt n Pepper
Paprika
Cranberry sauce (or fresh cranberries) << not necc. in an addition to preserves, can do either/or. 

Directions: 
1. Combine fruit preserves, wine, spices
2. Let the chicken marinate in the sauce as long as you can
3. Top cranberries and throw it in the oven 350 for an hour

- You can also cut the chicken into cubes and cook it over a stove for 30-40min (20 min on med, 10 on sim)

So simple. So good.

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