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Gwyneth eats chicken?
Wasn't she a long time vegetarian on Spain: On the Road Again?
I thought she was a vegan.....
She peels potatoes like she's never done it before! Found comedy. Thanks for this.
There was a blind item about her last year about how she has a hired cook and doesn't actually know how to cook herself, that it's all a farce.
I love Gwyneth as an actress but I don't quite believe her in this domestic role.
On a chicken note. None of the grocery stores around her carry nice roasting chickens. Only cheap fryers. It's been years since I've had one.
I always butterfly my chickens before roasting them. Just cut out the backbone and flatten it with our hand. It still cooks in about an hour, especially if you pull the thighs away from the chicken body and kind of prop them open - not that attractive, but they cook faster and you get nice crispy skin.
"The colours are just *gorge*!" (ugh)
The way they made the video, it looks as if she didn't wash her hands or cutting board, and went straight to handling lettuce and raw vegetables for the salad...
I do like that she showed how to parboil potatoes and then "fur" them; I learned how to do it from Delia Smith.
Probably the best version of butterflied roasted chicken with potatoes I've tried was on America's Test Kitchen:
i noticed the same thing as mschatelaine and as someone who may be a bit obsessive about food safety after getting food poisoning a couple of times i really hate when on cooking shows they don't show boards, hands, knives, etc being cleaned or at least mention that it should/has been done.
We just finished dinner (here in Switzerland), and it was swoon-worthy: I made the version of butterflied chicken in the chowhound recipe (with a composed butter), and made the Zuni Café bread salad as a side -- along with the "furred" roast potatoes.
The potatoes are easy and delicious, but if you have time (and happen to have a great loaf of stale bread it would be a shame to throw out, like I did), then try to make the Zuni bread salad -- it is the perfect accompaniment to the chicken.
Will try the potatoes that way next time I roast chicken. I have never de-boned a chicken, will have to try that too.
I almost feel sorry for Gwyneth, seems like she irritates people alot. Personally, I like her.
i remember reading an article where she said she quit the weird food diets she had been on because of her kids....so maybe thats why she has chicken now? lol
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Gwyneth eats chicken?
Wasn't she a long time vegetarian on Spain: On the Road Again?
I thought she was a vegan.....
She peels potatoes like she's never done it before! Found comedy. Thanks for this.
There was a blind item about her last year about how she has a hired cook and doesn't actually know how to cook herself, that it's all a farce.
I love Gwyneth as an actress but I don't quite believe her in this domestic role.
On a chicken note. None of the grocery stores around her carry nice roasting chickens. Only cheap fryers. It's been years since I've had one.
I always butterfly my chickens before roasting them. Just cut out the backbone and flatten it with our hand. It still cooks in about an hour, especially if you pull the thighs away from the chicken body and kind of prop them open - not that attractive, but they cook faster and you get nice crispy skin.
"The colours are just *gorge*!" (ugh)
The way they made the video, it looks as if she didn't wash her hands or cutting board, and went straight to handling lettuce and raw vegetables for the salad...
I do like that she showed how to parboil potatoes and then "fur" them; I learned how to do it from Delia Smith.
Probably the best version of butterflied roasted chicken with potatoes I've tried was on America's Test Kitchen:
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/312785
A bit more labour intensive, but worth it.
i noticed the same thing as mschatelaine and as someone who may be a bit obsessive about food safety after getting food poisoning a couple of times i really hate when on cooking shows they don't show boards, hands, knives, etc being cleaned or at least mention that it should/has been done.
We just finished dinner (here in Switzerland), and it was swoon-worthy: I made the version of butterflied chicken in the chowhound recipe (with a composed butter), and made the Zuni Café bread salad as a side -- along with the "furred" roast potatoes.
The potatoes are easy and delicious, but if you have time (and happen to have a great loaf of stale bread it would be a shame to throw out, like I did), then try to make the Zuni bread salad -- it is the perfect accompaniment to the chicken.
Will try the potatoes that way next time I roast chicken. I have never de-boned a chicken, will have to try that too.
I almost feel sorry for Gwyneth, seems like she irritates people alot. Personally, I like her.
i remember reading an article where she said she quit the weird food diets she had been on because of her kids....so maybe thats why she has chicken now? lol
i thought goop was a bad idea (because what could gwyneth paltrow know about domesticity?) but its actually a nice weekly email that I enjoy getting.