It’s been a long time…since I posted (Timmy T everyone!).
The last month or so at the Vegetable household has been fairly busy. We’ve either been eating out, or I’ve made comfortable and familiar food, like honey teriyaki chicken, slow-cooked broccoli, and mac and cheese.
This weekend my dad came to stay with us, and he brought me a birthday present: Ina Garten’s Barefoot Contessa Family Style. We decided to make her Chicken Stew with Biscuits for Sunday dinner. It was a group effort: my dad picking apart the roasted chicken (store bought as I felt lazy), Cauli stirring the stew and chopping rosemary after a small accident between my finger and the knife (they met and it was a bloody exchange), and me rushing about as usual, trying to manage my messy kingdom, red faced from the heat.
The recipe is basically a chicken pot pie filling with biscuits on top. Rather than roasting chicken breasts, we bought a pre-roasted bird at the store. I added leeks that we’d picked up at our local farmer’s market to the blanched carrots, frozen peas, and onions called for, and omitted the frozen pearl onions. Finally, I added chopped rosemary from our herb garden to the biscuits.
The meal came out great – well seasoned, familiar and comforting, and enough for a small army. Seriously. We’ll be eating chicken stew for the rest of the week.
That looks so freaking good!!
That does look good. Maybe I could get the recipe from you sometime. I love the idea of buying a pre-roasted chicken (for those of us that are lazy cooks
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Thanks guys! Erin – I’ll scan a copy of the recipe and send it to you.
Would you please send me the recipe? I had one similar to this, (I cooked the chicken) but now can’t find it! Thanks so much!