When I get a new cookbook, I look through it from cover to cover. I'm not really reading it, but I do look at every recipe, however briefly, before I cook anything from it. As the title suggests, it's not just a book of recipes, but also has a lot of info on cooking concepts and cooking techniques. It's got a lot about meat, which vegetarians will not appreciate, but I do, since most of my meat cooking experience growing up involved frozen ground turkey.
This book is pretty great.
For the maiden voyage of this book, I decided to try something new: breading meat. I made Crisp Breaded Chicken Cutlets. It was pretty involved and required many extra dishes to clean up, but the results were fantastic. Crispy on the outside, tender and juicy on the inside. Hmm...sort of like a tardis? Juicier on the inside?
If you have ever eaten a schnitzel, this was very much like or as a schnitzel. Actually, according to wikipedia, it was exactly a schnitzel. Next stop, cream mushroom sauce! That would make it Jägerschnitzel! I suppose topping it with tomato sauce and cheese would make a chicken parmesan. Aren't I fancy?
No pictures, my camera is still packed. Don't judge me! My suitcase and clothes are unpacked (and washed!), it's just the things in my carry-on.
Now for the other bird in the post: turkey. Or rather, left over turkey bones from Thanksgiving. I was making turkey stock! At home! How homesteadish! How self-reliant! How resourceful! How stinky!
Yes, it was very stinky. It's baked turkey, it should smell like baked turkey, right? Well, it doesn't. The turkey smell is there, but there is another, less pleasant, gloopy smell. The results are in the freezer, and considering that it takes at least 10 minutes to thaw a thingy of frozen solid liquid, and that I can't even think about the turkey stock without recalling the unique odor, I don't see myself using it anytime soon. Do yourselves a favor and stick with boxed or canned broth. I might make vegetable broth, but I don't think I'll try any more homemade meat broths.
Anyway, don't end this post thinking about gloopy turkey broth. Recall the wonderful and tasty success of breaded chicken cutlets and of all the wonderful breaded things to come!
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