So I made Country Captain for the first time yesterday

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/magazine/25food-t-000.html

It was pretty darn good and I would make it again. The only adjustment I made was to add just a bit of brown sugar to the sauce before baking, because I tasted it and found it a tad acrid and bitter, and I think it did make a good difference. I also would increase the oven time, we like our roasted, baked chicken a little more done. It wouldn't dry out due to the covered cooking time and the fact you have a sauce with it.

The condiments on top at time of serving made a big difference - currents, toasted almond slivers and crumbled bacon. I think next time I would add a little chopped apple as well.

I often practice new recipes on my family at Sunday Dinner. The funny thing is when people like something and then they never see it again!

[hippywife]

1. What a great idea

for a winter meal. I've never even heard of it but it sounds really yummy.

The same happens around here sometimes if something is too involved and takes way too much time or has too many ingredients. Sometimes it's fun to make something to say you can and did do it. :rofl:

[Vinca]

2. I've never made it, but it sounds like something I might try

to add some of my overabundance of ground cherries to. (One more ground cherry pie and I'll be ready for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.)

[grasswire]

3. I hate to say how long it's been since I first made Country Captain.

And I have forgotten about it for many years. I think I still have the popular cookbook I first used for it -- I'll have to find it and see how the recipe differs from this in the NYT.

Oh, and I have the River Road Recipes Junior League cookbook mentioned in the NYT. I'll pull that out, too, just for the fun of it.

[Tesha]

4. And they never see it again...

being creative in the kitchen here often means never being able to produce the "miracle" dinner.

Did you ever take a little of this - and some leftover that - and add this thing you got on sale, and then someone asks for it later and you can't really remember???

[grasswire]

5. ohyeah

Like my "famous" bean dip that the teenagers always beg for. What they don't know is that it is different nearly every time, according to what's in the pantry. Sometimes refried beans, sometimes black beans, sometimes salsa, sometimes crushed tomatoes. Ha!

Or the time I made up a soup from some leftover roasted root vegetables, some chicken that had been grilled with herbs and citrus juices, and heavy cream. My sister begged me for the recipe later, saying it was the best soup she ever had. Oops. I couldn't exactly remember everything.

[hippywife]

6. Bill begs me to remember

to write things down when I mess around with a recipe so I'll be able to do it again. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. :rofl: