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"aem" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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In honor of the great Hunter S. Thompson, I wonder whether you cooks
sometimes create something unique by casting aside your rules and
inhibitions just for the sake of the adventure?

I seldom stray far from the tried and true, but now and then you just
have to say wotthehell, archy. Most such forays turn out to be not
worth repeating, but one dish has been repeated numerous times. We'd
been drinking margaritas when I started to cook. I browned some
seasoned (s&p) chicken pieces, then tossed in some tequila and flamed
it (whee!) and deglazed the pan. Added onion and garlic, then saw the
limes on the counter. Squeezed the juice from a couple of those over
the chicken. On a roll now, I splashed in some Triple Sec, covered and
simmered till done. So, Margarita Chicken. Later, of course, I
discovered that this was not a new dish--but it was new to me at the
time, and it was good.

-aem

Original to me at the time was taking the TJ'S frozen berry medley (no
strawberries) and soaking them in cream sherry and ultimately spooning them
over lemon sorbet.

It made a great presentation in a red wine glass with a mint sprig.

Dimitri

Served garnished with a twist of lemon and an umbrella on the side? :-)

"aem" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

In honor of the great Hunter S. Thompson, I wonder whether you cooks
sometimes create something unique by casting aside your rules and
inhibitions just for the sake of the adventure?

I seldom stray far from the tried and true, but now and then you just
have to say wotthehell, archy. Most such forays turn out to be not
worth repeating, but one dish has been repeated numerous times. We'd
been drinking margaritas when I started to cook. I browned some
seasoned (s&p) chicken pieces, then tossed in some tequila and flamed
it (whee!) and deglazed the pan. Added onion and garlic, then saw the
limes on the counter. Squeezed the juice from a couple of those over
the chicken. On a roll now, I splashed in some Triple Sec, covered and
simmered till done. So, Margarita Chicken. Later, of course, I
discovered that this was not a new dish--but it was new to me at the
time, and it was good.

-aem

Quoted message said:

In honor of the great Hunter S. Thompson . . .

I just wanted to point out that this means Doonesbury will have to redo
all its storyboards. Biggest wrinkle in the project since 9/11.

Neil

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aem said:

In honor of the great Hunter S. Thompson, I wonder whether you cooks
sometimes create something unique by casting aside your rules and
inhibitions just for the sake of the adventure?

Hm... An appropriate recipe would probably be a smoothie
made by filling a blender with tequila and assorted vegetation
of problematic legality.

One would probably have to have built up Thompson's decades-long
cultivated immunity to survive a slug of it.

--
Yes, I am the last man to have walked on the moon, | Mike Van Pelt
and that's a very dubious and disappointing honor. | mvp.at.calweb.com
It's been far too long. -- Gene Cernan | KE6BVH

aem said:

In honor of the great Hunter S. Thompson, I wonder whether you cooks
sometimes create something unique by casting aside your rules and
inhibitions just for the sake of the adventure?

I seldom stray far from the tried and true, but now and then you just
have to say wotthehell, archy. Most such forays turn out to be not
worth repeating, but one dish has been repeated numerous times. We'd
been drinking margaritas when I started to cook. I browned some
seasoned (s&p) chicken pieces, then tossed in some tequila and flamed
it (whee!) and deglazed the pan. Added onion and garlic, then saw the
limes on the counter. Squeezed the juice from a couple of those over
the chicken. On a roll now, I splashed in some Triple Sec, covered and
simmered till done. So, Margarita Chicken. Later, of course, I
discovered that this was not a new dish--but it was new to me at the
time, and it was good.

-aem

New to me today was making hominy pancakes ( a great use of cornmeal,
btw, recipe source - Joy of Cooking, but add more milk as the mixture
steams) interspersing them with sauteed pears and candied ginger in a
five pancake stack, and placing the little pile on the plate in a pool
of ginger syrup. Yum, yum.

Shirley Hicks
Toronto, Ontario

Neil said:

Quoted message said:

In honor of the great Hunter S. Thompson . . .

I just wanted to point out that this means Doonesbury will have to redo
all its storyboards. Biggest wrinkle in the project since 9/11.

Neil

The Hunter fired the shot,
In an effort to thicken the plot.
He finished his life,
In turmoil and strife.
But his story wasn't worth squat.

Rusty