Could this be the perfect weeknight meal?
Flash-cooked hominy with kale and broiled chicken cutlets with cracked pepper. Delicious and easy.
I almost completely stopped cooking this summer, but recently, there have been two near-miraculous developments in my life that are getting me back in my kitchen:
- A Whole Foods opened in my neighborhood (the previous supermarket closed in February)
- I started the Apartment Therapy Fall Cure
One of the assignments for week 2 of the Cure is to cook a meal in your kitchen. So I looked at my farmers market finds–kale, beets, and a lot of cooking pumpkins from a trip to Farmer John’s pumpkin patch–dusted off How to Cook Everything and found some recipes.
For dinner tonight, I made flash-cooked hominy with kale and broiled chicken cutlets with cracked pepper. And, I think I stumbled across a perfect weeknight meal. Not only did the chicken cutlets help me finally use some boneless skinless chicken breasts (ugh! I hate chicken breasts! so bland!) that were in my freezer (using the food you have on hand is part of the Cure), but…they were delicious! Bittman recommends soy sauce as a non-fat basting liquid, and it added so much flavor. Broiling, even in my wonky oven, was super quick.
The hominy and kale took a bit longer–about a half hour total, once I chopped the kale. But it’s so delicious and a great new recipe to add to my “winter green” repertoire. You need some fresh recipe blood, I think, especially with those winter greens that are so exciting and novel right now but will get a little repetitive by spring.
Right now, though, I am loving the fresh apples, winter squash, and greens at the farmers market. Yay for good food!
Recipes: Broiled chicken cutlets with cracked pepper (HTCE p. 381), flash-cooked hominy with kale (HTCE p. 193)
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