Hi all,
Who knows good ways to do chicken? I'd love to exchange some here.

I recently saw an episode of "Jacques (Pepin) and Julia (Child) Cook at Home" on PBS and they showed the most wonderfully simple technique for making chicken - they poached it! It went like this:

Put a chicken in a pot with carrots and celery and onion/leek and a few herbs and spices (they used thyme, bay leaf, and cloves) and cover it with water, bring to a boil, and simmer it for 20 minutes (they put a steamer basket or colander on top of the chicken to make sure it stayed submerged, and didn't put the cover on).

Then add some mushrooms if you like, bring to a boil again, then turn off the heat and cover it for about an hour till the chicken is done. (yes, off the heat!) And voila! You've got chicken, stock, and vegetables for all kinds of wonderful uses: soup, a la king, whatever. I added sour cream, stock, cream, and wine to the chicken and veggies and it was yummy.

Best of all, this was so easy to do that I may start doing one of these every week. No more grocery store rotisserie with all that MSG and crap added to the skin.

Who else knows good ways with chicken?

Best Regards,