For those just joining us, one of this year's resolutions is to select a new recipe every week, selecting one from each of our cookbooks until I have been through them all. Those of you who have been to our house know this is going to be a multi-year project, though if I am still working on it 5 years from now promise to donate a few books to the library.
For the first week of the year, I selected a recipe that sounded fabulous, looked great in the pictures, was in a really neat cookbook....and it was a flop. For this week, I selected a recipe from the boring old standby--the Better Homes and Garden New Cookbook complete with red plaid cover--just because I liked saying the name....and it was wonderful.
I can really thank Billy Crystal for this week's dining adventure. If you've ever seen "When Harry Met Sally" (and if you haven't, where exactly have you been since 1989?????) , you'll probably remember when Billy Crystal was trying to teach Meg Ryan how to talk in his Accent of the Day by having her repeat "waiter, there is too much pepper on my paprikash." Well, with that sort of recommendation, how was I going to pass up making "Chicken Paprikash," especially when it meant having a good reason to walk around the house saying "chicken paprikash?" And I am delighted to report that it was really good--Andy as the nonbiased voter agrees--so it now joins "Aesthetically-Challenged Chicken" in the Chateau S-G dining and entertaining repertoire.
A rose by any other name might smell as sweet, but "paprikash" is still more fun to say.
1 comment:
Yum, and again, I say...yum!!!
Makes my recent diet of ready meals topped with spinach seem a little dull :)
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