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Chicken Curry: Teach Kids To Cook
There are lots of ways to change the food system, and you and I aren't likely to do it. It's going to be our kids who do it.
Two weeks ago I threw together a quick chicken curry and both the kids liked it, so I asked, "Is this a keeper?" and they nodded, chewing hungrily.
So, last week, when 12-year-old James got home from school, I said, "We're having chicken curry tonight."
He said, "Yes."
I said, "You're going to make it." He didn't respond. "I'll do all the prep and you're going to make it."
He said, "OK."
An hour before I wanted dinner on the table, I diced an onion. I've already taught him how to hold a knife and halve, slice, or dice an onion; tonight I wanted him to see how ...
Posted in aromatics, Chicken, Ethnic Cuisine, Recipes, staple meal Also tagged Chicken, cooking with your kids, curry, indian 97 Comments
Ruhlman’s Twenty Giveaway!
What’s Your Best Staple Meal?
[Update 1/16: Winners have been chosen; their dishes are at the bottom of this post.]
Two and a half years ago, I wrote a post on staple meals because I’m fascinated by what people eat at home when they don’t want to think about what to make, what their go-to, middle-of-the-week meal is, because they are invariably quick, efficient, economical, and well, good enough to eat once a week forever. (I think they also tell us a lot about who we are).
The woman who has been cutting my hair for 12 years, three kids 16 and younger, husband not always at home, an “I don’t have a lot of time” mom. She makes chicken legs on a small rotisserie, and will do ...
Macaroni and Beef with Cheese —
Childhood Love
I needed a dinner that was easy and delicious, would please everyone, one that also reheated well in case my daughter's track meet ran late, and I had to be able to make it long before serving so it would be just a matter of reheating come dinnertime. There are of course a thousand options that fit these criteria, but last week, I was in a nostalgic mood and thought back to school lunches, one of my favorites, macaroni and beef. We were always famished by lunchtime and this dish was dependable and impossible to screw up by a 1970's school kitchen. For a midweek meal I went as simple as could be. The only way I'd change it, I decided would be to ...
Posted in Beef, Main Courses, Pasta, Recipes Also tagged comfort food, macaroni and beef Comments closed















