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Quick Tip: Season Under the Skin

Whether or not you're a fan of crispy skin, have you ever thought about seasoning under it? This is one of our favorite ways to prepare whole birds since the skin seals in the juices while the herbs a...

What's the Deal With Black Chickens?

Have you ever seen a black chicken? We don't mean a black-feathered chicken; we mean a Silkie chicken, which is black-pigmented right down to its bones. They aren't commonly found in the grocery store...

Craving: Crunchy Oven-Fried Chicken

It's not that we're afraid of frying or even that we're hoping to avoid the extra calories. It's just that sometimes we want a bit of that lovely crunch without going to all the trouble of deep-fat fr...

How To Make Finger-Licking Fried Chicken
It's Not As Scary As It Seems

After getting married, one of the first things we learned to make was fried chicken. With a husband whose Grandmother had award-winning chicken frying skills, it was a quick realization that we too wo...

Good Question: How Should I Reheat Chicken Wraps?

Here's an interesting question from Bethany, who has also given us a very good idea for a chicken lunch dish! She asks: Yesterday for lunch I made some great chicken wraps with melted cheese and torti...

What's the Deal with Chicken Supremes?

No, we're not talking about a sandwich from the special value menu at McDonald's! We're talking about a kind of chicken that is sometimes called for in recipes and that can sometimes be hard to find. ...

Poultry Week: Chicken, Turkey, Duck and Goose...

We have one week left in Meat/Un-Meat month, and we're talking about poultry. We have probably talked about chicken than any other single meat, here at The Kitchn; a good roast chicken is an absolute...

Quick Tip: Freeze Leftover Cooked Chicken

Whether we're grilling chicken breasts or braising legs and thighs, we find it just as easy to cook a large batch all at once. (Or just cook a whole chicken!) Any leftovers not immediately eaten get s...

How To: Grind Your Own Sausage

As Emma said earlier today, making your own sausage isn't as daunting as one might think. It allows you to control not only the flavor, but the fat and nutrient contents as well! Sausage makes even ...

Late Winter Combination: 5 Recipes for Chicken with Citrus

As we get deeper into Meat/Un-Meat Month, we're going to devote some time to poultry tips and recipes. But in our opinion, you can never have enough ideas for chicken. It's affordable and adaptable to...

Flickr Find: Chicken and Waffles?

This seems like a truly bizarre combination to us. And yet when we were looking for pictures of waffles a while back, every other picture had fried chicken on the plate. Can anyone enlighten us?...

New Trick: How to Track Your Chicken Back to the Farm

We just read about this on Eat Me Daily (via Slashfood), and we're alternately overjoyed that we can type a code into a website to find out where our chicken grew up and amazed that someone hadn't tho...

Recipe Review: Braised Chicken with Shallots

A couple days ago we recommended a recipe for Braised Chicken with Shallots. Well, we weren't just talking; it looked so good that we cooked it too, and now we are going to tell you just how good it i...

Light Eating: Braised Chicken with Shallots

This photo, and everything about the accompanying recipe, too, makes our mouths water. Eating light doesn't mean avoiding meat entirely; protein is still essential, and chicken thighs are a frugal, ta...

Food Science: The Difference Between White Meat and Dark Meat

It seems like there's a new theory, trick, or technique every year for making sure the white and dark meat on a turkey cook evenly. What's all the fuss about? Let's take a look......

Recipe: Chicken (or Turkey!) Pot Pie

Ooooh, it's sure been sweet in the Kitchen lately and we can blame it all on pie month! Now, I'm not one to turn away sugar, but this week I'm in the mood to swing things around a little and take a l...

Recipe: Greek Chicken Pasta with Olives and Feta

There's more to this pasta dish than just chicken, olives, and feta. There are some artichoke hearts, fresh oregano, and a lemon vinaigrette — a whole mess of salty, tangy flavors......

Good Quote: Dorie Greenspan on Carving a Chicken

This paragraph may have been dashed off in eight seconds—it's from a blog post—but it caught our attention for its lovely way of capturing the act of dismantling a whole, cooked chicken with skill...

From the Files: Roast Chicken!

Roast chicken may be the most quintessential piece of home cooking that we know. That savory roasting smell, the ease of slipping a bird into the oven, the juicy meat and warm bread and vegetables tha...

Meat CSA's in the San Francisco Bay Area

We love CSA's because we believe in supporting our local farmers and we love getting fresh produce delivered to us direct from the farmer. Now, those of us in most Bay Area locations can have local m...

Grill Tonight: Citrus Chicken Under a Brick

Butterflied chicken weighted down by a brick is a traditional Tuscan method that results in quick cooking and crispy skin. If you don't have a grill you can do this in a skillet. If you don't have a g...

Grill Tonight: Chicken, Rice, And Mango In Lettuce Wraps

Emma's post about more good uses for lettuce made us think of our favorite fish salad in lettuce cups. We were also thinking about grilled chicken, which led to this recipe... ...

Jamie Oliver Kills Baby Chicks on TV

Whoa. Have you seen this yet? It's slightly old news, but still very timely. Last January Jamie Oliver invited guests to a dinner with cute centerpieces: baby chicks. He separates the males from the f...

Learning Something New: Our A-ha! Chicken Moment

In Week Seven of the Kitchn Cure, Sara Kate is challenging you to learn a new skill. It could be as simple as properly dicing an onion or as complicated as rolling out pasta. This reminded us of sev...

Look! Local Ostrich and Emu Eggs at Whole Foods

We don't visit the local Whole Foods very often, and we hadn't inspected their loose selection of local eggs very closely. So we were in for a shock when we wandered over last night and realized that ...

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