[Jamestown1630]

This week: some pretty things for your Springtime celebrations; and Corn Ice Cream!

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-JT

[deadrock]

My own recipe. Enjoy.

Chicken Green Chili Stew
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Ingredients

• 1 non-reactive large pot
• 1 1/4 cups of flour
• 1 1/8 cups of butter
• 1/8 cup of light olive oil
• 3 large bay leaves
• 1 1/2 large onion(chopped between fine and medium)
• A bulb of garlic(sliced)
• 4 - 8 cups of 505 FLAMEROASTED GREEN CHILE
• 1 - 2 tablespoons of cumin
• 1 - 2 tablespoons of oregano
• 1 15oz can of fire roasted diced tomatoes(Hunts)
• 25 - 30 pieces of boneless, skinless chicken thighs
• 5 - 8 tablespoons of Better Than Bouillon roasted chicken base.
• Salt , pepper and cayenne pepper to regulate heat and taste.

Business

• Fire up the grill hot and sear the chicken thighs. A bit of char is ok. Don't cook all the way through. Set aside to cool. Then dice. Save any liquid and add to the stew as well.
• Place the fat, bay leaves, onion and garlic in pot and let simmer slowly for 15 minutes.
• Turn heat to low, and incorporate the flour into the fat so it is as one. • Stir in the tomatoes.
• Then, stir in the 505 green chili. 4 or 5 cups for now.
• Then, stir in 5 tablespoons of the Better Than Bouillon chicken
base. • Then, stir in 1 tablespoon of the cumin and oregano.
• Slowly start adding good quality water to the flour concoction.
Turn up to a medium heat.
• When pot is half full of the simmering stew, add the diced chicken and accompanying liquid.
• Keep adding water until the stew gets a stew consistency. Not too runny, not too thick.

Adjustments

• This recipe is hit and miss depending on the quality of the cumin, oregano and green chiles. Sometimes the 505 chiles can be hotter than usual. It is not consistent.
• Add some of the remaining tablespoon of the cumin and/or oregano to taste.
• Add more of the Better Than Bouillon chicken base and green chiles to taste.
• Stir one last time. The stew as well.

[umgud]

THX for the ping.

[defconw]

That looks fab!

[LibWhacker]

Wow, pics are amazing. No way I could make something like that, especially the second one, which looks fantastic.

[trisham]

Thanks for the ping!

[leaning conservative]

Good to see you JT! That feta tapenade tarte looks yummy. My experiences w/creamed corn involved using a napkin to get rid of it from my plate when I was young.

[CottonBall]

Well. Something completely unexpected to do with our (hopefully) huge corn crop this summer!

[mylife]

Today was national Chili day so I got a cup at the Rotary club

[mylife]

Feta Tapenade sounds amazing.
Corn ice cream? not so much.

Heck Feta Tapenade on corn on the cob sounds strange and yummy LOL

Would be ok on a crust of bread in my book, but melty is always better.

[Qiviut]

I love anything "key lime" so when I saw this recipe (via "Tasty" on Facebook), I had to check it out . There is a video that shows how to make the pie & at :25 in the video (immediately after making the crust), there is a method for separating egg yolks from the whites that I have never seen before (maybe I just don't get out enough & have missed it somewhere previously!). Anyway, here is the link .... and the recipe looks really good, too:

Key Lime Marshmallow Meringue Pie

I noticed under "Sources/Credit" there are another two links - one is for the 'ultimate key lime pie' at the Relish website ... I'll be checking that one out as well.

[Aliska]

I did some research on King Cakes a couple years ago, never got around to making one. This I thought was the prettiest one with the translucent frosting from Sucre. It seems they are not selling them this year.

I figured out how to get that translucent look with little sprayers and some special food coloring I got at amazon.

But I never figured out the best recipe for my King Cake.

From Just a Pinch I just got a recipe for Polish "Paczki". I would like a dough similar to that (seems a lot like my Ferden recipe but no cardamom). It has to be deep fried but I would like it like a bread in a ring (Bundt or like an English Tea Ring), filled with some cream filling (big no no from the person who submitted the recipe), and frosted like my picture if I could get the right look to it. And no raisins. I hadn't thought about this idea very long so maybe I could come up with something a little different.

I wanted to stick to a more traditional King Cake but more and more people seem to be doing their own thing. Don't know if I'd want to put a baby in it but you can buy those and beads at Amazon.

Paczki Recipe on Justapinch