There are currently two groups cooking their way through two different Dorie Greenspan cookbooks. One is
Baking: From My Home to Yours and the other is her most recent book
Around My French Table. The first one is more than half way through the book, so it is closed to new members. However, I was able to join
French Fridays With Dorie. Yippee!!
I was so excited as I was reading through the group's blog trying to find out "what are we cooking this week?" Cornish Hens! Oh, oh, my last experience with them was not a good one and one particular friend will never let me forget that! As I am reading through the recipe it says something about that in order to cut the cooking time I must prepare it
en crapaudine (like a toad!) and that I must "SPATCHCOCK" the hen! What??!!
Success....I was so proud of myself! It really was so much easier that I thought and my family loved it. I'm ready to make it again with some variations. This recipe calls for tapenade inserted under the skin, rubbing the hen with olive oil, salt, pepper and lemon juice. Then you roast it at 500° until the skin is "deeply golden and crisp". Cooking time was less than 30 minutes.....voilá!
9 comments:
Welcome to FFwD! I just joined the Daring Bakers last month too, maybe I'll see you on the message boards!
I loved this recipe, and it's great to get over the fear of making something that didn't turn out so well last time.
Is this your first week? Welcome! :)
Your hens look wonderful - great photo!
Welcome aboard!
This one was a little intimidating, for sure.
So happy you've joined us! So much fun. And your hens look fabulous! Can't wait to see what you do in the future!!
welcome aboard...glad you enjoyed your first one with us :) your hens looks scrumptious !
Success indeed! Your hens look perfectly crisp and succulent. Have fun cooking with us :-)
welcome to the group! I love being a part of it and remember how exciting it was to post about my first recipe - I'm so happy for you! It seems you got on well with the hens, spatchcocking is such a great technique and its name makes me giggle so its a win-win for me! :)
Welcome to the group! We've had a lot of fun so far. Learning new techniques (like spatchcocking) has been a wonderful part of the process. Great job!
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Regards, cornish hen recipe
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