I started the week with a quest: Around the World in Five Days. We ate out a few too many times last week, so I decided to make my week of cooking interesting. While Nick wasn't exactly excited about my big trip to the grocery store, it's five nights of eating at home, so that has to count for something!
Night One: Mexico
Like all Cooks Illustrated recipes, this was an intricate dance in the kitchen:
Simmering bone-in chicken breasts in chicken broth with onions, garlic, cilantro, and oregano:
Combining veggies as a flavor base in the food processor with chipotles in adobo sauce:
Making your own tortilla strips in the oven:
Straining the broth, shredding the chicken, and frying the flavor base in the soup pot
Adding the chicken broth to the pot and cooking until the flavors blend
Adding the shredded chicken back to the soup, and preparing the garnishes:
Putting it all together
It was a late dinner. "Worth the wait" Nick said :)
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