Welcome back! Season 2 is ticking right along. New characters are everywhere if you’re a TV fan, while for the readers among us, it’s like meeting old friends for the first time in person! Or enemies? The Comte St. Germain is definitely a man not to be crossed. He’s a wealthy wine merchant, with a good dose of self confidence…cocky actually. So I made him a French classic – Coq au Vin. Chicken in wine. See what I did there? Food from fiction can sometimes stretch the imagination, but it’s always delicious. Traditionally, coq au vin is made with an aged cock. 🙂 Everything, including the bird’s comb, was thrown into the pot, and cooked for a long time in wine, which helped tenderize the old, stringy meat. Julia Childs’ recipe from the 60s is what most of us in modern North America use as inspiration, and I am no different. I’ve made a couple of changes to the old dame’s version, mostly to reduce the number of pans. Cleaning up the kitchen before the newest episode of Outlander is a drag, don’t you think? That said, this recipe is still a bit involved, but the flavour of this classic […]
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