Did I Say Diet? -3/20/09
Last night I wrote a post about a meal of healthy Moroccan food. Tonight, I think every recipe I made from this month's Gourmet was trying to find a way to make something healthy less so. I added heavy cream to broccoli, cooked carrots in over a cup of olive oil, and smothered bananas in pudding and cake. Yikes! The article "Easy Does It" that these recipes came from didn't really have a theme aside from homey dishes. Sadly, homey usually meant lots of extra fat. My favorite dish of this menu, Glazed Chicken with Porcini and Crisp Potatoes, was a earthy roast chicken with a mushroom "stuffing" that was mixed after roasting with skillet potatoes. This is the second roast chicken recipe in this issue and I like this recipe best. The chicken itself tasted much the same but in this recipe, the skin was crispy and flavorful because of the last minute glazing. The potatoes weren't as crispy as I would have liked. I think leaving them uncovered for the entir...