Sheet-pan roasted chicken for weeklong meals
Chicago Tribune cook JeanMarie Brownson shares simple sheet pan roasting ideas. She favors a large rimmed sheet pan, light nonstick surface, and a hot oven to create four portions with vegetables around the chicken parts. She notes the rise of spatchcocked chickens and explains modern buyable cuts.
Costless Whole Chickens and Simple Splits
The note explains cost benefits of whole chickens over parts and offers methods to split the bird. Use kitchen shears to remove the backbone and a chef knife to split through the breast bone. It suggests asking a butcher to backbone and quarter the chicken and saving backbones for broth.
Corkscrew Chronicles picks vintages for savvy buying
Wine expert Gary Twining outlines top vintages by region from 2015 2016 in Europe to 2011 2015 in Germany and Barolo Barbaresco 2015 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 plus Brunello 2006 2012 and Willamette Valley ripening years. He notes producer quality and site influence and urges tasting values before bulk purchases.
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