What are you cooking?

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(07-30-2015, 09:58 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: What's everyone cooking?

With summer school over, I'm not doing shit these days. I have 4 weeks until I got back to work, so I have been cooking a lot more.

Here's what I made today



Chicken marinated in garlic, olive oil, and lemon juice. Very sweet. Very tender. I usually add some kalamata olives as a garnish, but I only did the cherry tomatoes today.

I made kabuli palaw for the first time. It's seasoned rice with carrots and raisins. It was awesome. Not as good as the kabob place makes it, but I was impressed with my first attempt.

Next time I am going to try to make the cilantro sauce for the chicken.

That looks delicious, but a little dry for my tastes.  Definitely needs some sort of sauce.  What kind of cilantro sauce were you going to make?  

I bake large amounts of chicken and save the stock.  When it cools all the heavy fat rises to the top and can be removed.  Then I cook down (reduce) the stock and freeze it to use in sauces and/or gravy.  I even use it in my chicken salad.  Since it gels when it cools it keeps the chicken salad from breaking down and getting liquidy in the fridge.  I use fat free or low fat salad dressing and that stuff will break down into water if you refrigerate chicken or tuna salad made out of it.  But if you add some reduced chicken stock it keeps it in a perfect consistency.