Archive for August 3rd, 2008
Just Call Me Martha “Dizzy” Stewart!
This has been a fun exercise! Check back again to vote for Sunday dinner (which Sunday TBD). Thanks to everyone that voted, too.
The recipe was easy to follow, and and some point I quit looking at it. I did make a couple of substitutions: I used cognac instead of apricot brandy, and I used canned apricots in lite syrup. I also seasoned the flour with some salt and pepper, and added a little more seasoning to the sauce before putting the chicken in to bake.
On the yummy scale of 1 to 10, I think this recipe is a 7. I would make it again, but would spice it up a little bit more (more ginger maybe some garlic, too). I also think this would be very good with peaches or pineapple, too.
I served this with some mushroom rice and green beans. Oh, and another glass of Pinot Grigio, too!
After 50 minutes in the oven ... Smells wonderful! Tasted pretty good too. I had some green beans and mushroom rice along with a glass of white wine.
Dizzy Chicken It Is! And, the Contest Winner Is ….
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Dizzy Chicken (The $25,000 Mardi Gras Cake Cook Book) | 38 | 43% |  |
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Stuffed Shrimp (Enola Prudhomme’s Low-Fat Favorites) | 25 | 28% | |
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Shrimp Salad with Lemon Oil Dressing (The New Low-Country Cooking) | 13 | 15% | |
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Creole Rice Salad (La Bouche Creole) | 9 | 10% | |
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Chicken Liver Omelet (Brennan’s New Orleans Cookbook) | 3 | 3% | |
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Thank you to everyone who took the time to enter my comment contest and vote for my Sunday Dinner! I’m going to do this challenge every week or two, so I hope everyone will come back to vote for future Sunday Dinners! And thank you thank you thank you for NOT voting for the Chicken Liver Omelet, even though it did have a few champions.
It looks like the publisher of this book is no longer in business. So, I am printing this recipe as written and with full credit to the book’s author and cook extrordinaire, Mrs. Eunice Surles of Lake Chalres, Louisiana and her book The $25,000 Madi Gras Cake and Other Prize-Winning Recipes Cook Book (1975) published by Legacy Publishing in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The ISBN # of the book is 0918784034.
DIZZY CHICKEN
Serves 6-8
2 3-3 1/2 pound broilers, cut up
3/4 cup flour
1/4 teaspoon each: salt and garlic salt
1/2 teaspoon each: ginger, celery salt
1 (1 pound+13 ounces can apricots drained. (Reserve liquid).
4 tablespoons flour
1/4 cup soy sauce
2 tablespoons brown sugar
2/3 cup apricot brandy
1 cup margarine
- In paper bag pour flour mixture.
- Shake chicken a few pieces at a time.
- Heat margarine in heavy skillet. If electric, heat to 350.
- Fry chicen until brown on all sides.
- Remove chicken to baking dish with cover. Foil may be used for cover.
- Pour 1/2 cup reserved apricot juice over the chicken.
- Drain all but 1/3 cup margarine from skillet.
- Add flour, remaining juice, soy sauce and sugar. Cook until thickened.
- Add apricot brandy, stir well. Pour over chicken.
- Place apricot halves on chicken.
- Bake covered for 50 minutes in large flat baking dish at 350 degrees.
I am going to cut this recipe in half … otherwise this single gal will be eating Dizzy Chicken every meal for the next three weeks. And, believe me, that is a sure fire way to kill any interest in a repeat performance no matter how good this turns out.
