MasterChef Mango Chutney

I loved Curry Nights growing up.  Imagine Trader Vics- 1969- San Francisco- style.  My dad would enthusiastically prepare a huge crock of aromatic yellow curry with chicken and coconut and pot of rice.  What would begin as a simple dish would take on an explosion of texture, color and flavor as we chopped, sliced and […]

Bucket List #57: Debone A Chicken.

Apologies to my Vegetarian Friends...

“Like everything French, it’s pretty simple, slightly perverse, and very labor intense,” stated a fellow blogger on deboning a chicken for a Chicken Ballotine. Exactly.  I will say this was an extremely gratifying experience; I feel like I checked something really BIG off the list of life accomplishments;  I have garnered a new boasting fact […]