Boning a whole chicken may not seem like an everyday project, but I promise that once you’ve done it three or four times, you’ll find it easy. Or at least not intimidating. Once you reach that point, this makes an elegant (but not fussy) and delicious chicken dinner for a cool autumn evening.
This is a very pretty dish that looks much more complicated than it is. I developed this recipe, but it’s based on a traditional Italian dish and can easily be adapted to various ingredients and tastes. If it’s payday, try this with veal scallops instead of chicken.
This is a very fine “special occasion” dish for an intimate dinner. It comes from the famed La Tulipe of New York City (by way of the New York Times).
In the 1990s, there was a great little Spanish restaurant called Barcelona Cafe down on Broadway. This is an elegant and easy chicken dish from that long-gone establishment.
This is the best version of an old classic that I know. It’s a rich dish, and you need little more than a green salad and a bottle of wine to make a meal.
This is a Chicago-land restaurant classic. But the version below is also an easy and exceptionally delicious single-dish chicken dinner. If you use 4 thighs and half the rest of the recipe, this is a perfect dinner for 2.
Serve this flavorful and colorful roast chicken with rice and black beans. Some warm flour tortillas are also nice. Your beans will be incredible if you add the juices from the roasting pan!
This recipe produces the filling for my Chicken, Ham & Tarragon Pie, but it makes a delicious supper served over toast, pasta, or rice with only a simple vegetable side dish or green salad.
Here is a chicken pot pie suitable for company. Rich, aromatic and lovely.
This unusual, hearty dish of chicken, beer, mushrooms and bacon from the north of France would originally have been made with a tough old rooster (coq), but you won’t find one of those anywhere. Never mind — a chicken works beautifully, and takes considerably less time to cook.