Friday, 03 July 2009

• Cooking with Jimbo 8

  Welcome lords and ladies to another trouser-rousing edition of Cooking with Jimbo. Last time, as you may recall (it has been a while), we cooked up a heaping helping of Moors and Christians. I hope, this time, to be slightly less sacrilegious (sacriLICIOUS!). This time, we are cooking up a dish I lovingly refer to as Chicken Thighs with Leeks and 'Shrooms à la Internet. This recipe will feed two regular people, or approximately 0.9 hungry college students. Let us begin.

  Step 1: Purchase the ingredients
  As always, purchasing the ingredients is one of the most important and most frequently forgotten steps (which is unfortunate when you’re standing in your kitchen ready to cook). You need the following ingredients. 1 large leek, 3 chicken thighs, flour, oil, about 4 ounces of shiitake mushrooms, chicken broth, tarragon, salt, and some red wine. The wine was a particularly entertaining purchase for me. I had to collect all of the wine connoisseur knowledge from my European heritage in order to ultimately decide on the finest, tastiest, and, most importantly, dirt-cheapest wine for my poor college ass. It even came in a box like my apple juice as a child (now, as an adult, I buy my apple juice by the keg).

  Step 2: Take a knife to the ingredients
  It is now time for the most cathartic step. Take your sharpest knife and begin with the leek. Dice up all of the white and light green areas and put them aside. Go ahead, take a big bite (of the leek). It's great. Refreshing. Next, cut off the super mushroom stems and cut the caps into strips. Third, cut the bones and fat from the chicken thighs. I do not recommend laughing maniacally while doing so when your neighbor might hear you. Lastly, cut the wine. You need about one-quarter of a cup. Be careful, since wine cutting is exceptionally difficult and messy.

  Step 3: Fry up the chicken-izzle
  Take about two teaspoons of your oil and coat the bottom of a pan, and heat it up to medium (on the stove, preferably, but over some burning heretics would work just as well). While waiting, coat the chicken in flour. Once evenly coated, add the chicken to the hot oil and cook each side about three minutes (until it starts to turn non-alchemically to gold). Once it’s good and gold, take the chicken out and cover it with some foil.

  Step 4: Light up the 'shrooms (and leek)
  Add about another teaspoon of oil to the pan and throw a few more heretics onto the fire until the heat’s up to medium-high. Add the chopped up mushrooms and leek to the pan and cook a little less than five minutes, until they're soft, while stirring frequently. I do mean frequently. Don’t think I won’t know if you don’t stir frequently. I’m watching you through the monitor.

  Step 5: Throw in just about everything else, willy-nilly
  Throw in half-a'-cup of chicken broth, quarter-a'-cup of wine, a pinch-a'-salt, and bring to a simmer. Some chefs would recommend adding a mysterious ingredient called "love" at this point, but I’ve never cooked with it and do not recommend doing so unless you have experience with it. Besides, it apparently isn’t available at most grocery stores (I’ve checked). Put the chicken back in there and let it cook through, turning occasionally. Give this about four to six minutes. Make sure to check that the chicken isn't pink in the middle anymore. If it's been thoroughly purified, you can remove the amalgamation from the burning heretic pile and add about half-a'-teaspoon of tarragon, if'n ya fancy.

  Step 6: Eat
  While it is good manners to eat it directly from the pan, some bizarre social circles encourage using plates and forks.

  
  

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