Grilled Chicken with Pseudo Tzatziki Sauce on July 19
We bought a fresh chicken at the farmer’s market on Saturday; we were going to spit roast it on the Ducane, but it turned out to be a really windy day (didn’t want pine needles to get on the chicken). Instead, I cut out the back, flattened the chicken, rubbed the last of the olive sauce under and on top of the skin, and grilled it for about 45 minutes on medium heat.
Bruce made a pseudo tzatziki sauce (had everything in it but the cucumber) from homemade yogurt to serve with the chicken. We also bought some Asian eggplant on Saturday; I cut slits in them and stuffed them with garlic cloves. I coated the stuffed eggplant with olive oil, seasoned them with salt and pepper, and grilled them for about 15 minutes until the were nice and soft. I also sauteed fresh yellow wax beans in butter, salt and pepper and then finished them in some of Bruce’s vegetable stock.
We enjoyed a nice bottle of Cristom 2005 Syrah and we finished the evening with a lovely white cherry and macerated (in limoncino) strawberry parfait with whipped cream and chocolate mint.
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My husband, Bruce, and I live on the beautiful Oregon Coast. We are passionate home cooks and make dinner from scratch almost every night of the week. We shop the farmer’s market, buy as much from local producers as we can, and support the organic, sustainable, and Slow Food movements. We believe that knowing where your food comes from, cooking from scratch, eating well, in season, and together at the table are all part of living healthy. You won’t find many foods from the middles aisles of the grocery store in our house!! This blog is an account of our home-cooked meals for the year 2008 (and now 2009). The way it works is I prepare the main entree’ (I usually don’t follow a recipe–I like to think of recipes as reference and use them to generate ideas) while Bruce usually makes a salad to match. We eat the salad after we eat the main entree’. We learned to eat that way when we visited Italy and prefer it now. We always have a bottle of wine with dinner, so we’ve documented it as well. We don’t go by what’s best with white or red, we just drink what we like. This project started in December 2007 when there were many discussions regarding the frequency in which favorite dishes were made. We determined that the best way to know how often we ate pasta with Bolognese sauce (or anything else) was to document it. We have been doing just that in a journal since January 1, 2008. I then decided that it would be better to put it on a blog; not for public attention, but for easier storage management and transferability of the data. If you happen to stumble across this blog and find it interesting, or would like to know how we made something, let me know–I am happy to share.
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