{"id":1871,"date":"2019-02-08T03:45:27","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T19:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=1871"},"modified":"2020-10-29T22:35:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T14:35:18","slug":"meal-kit-hack-coq-au-vin-with-bone-in-chicken-mashed-potatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2019\/02\/meal-kit-hack-coq-au-vin-with-bone-in-chicken-mashed-potatoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Meal Kit Hack: Coq au Vin with Bone-In Chicken & Mashed Potatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I didn’t get any meal kits this week, so I decided to hack a Home Chef<\/a> recipe for dinner. I wanted something with chicken, as I’m trying to eat less beef, and this one seemed simple enough. I love coq au vin<\/a> (which I haven’t made in a while). and while, obviously, you can’t make coq au vin in an hour, I was willing to give this recipe for Coq au Vin with Bone-In Chicken & Mashed Potatoes<\/a> a try. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alas, once I started making it, I realized there wasn’t much to it: you make mashed potatoes, you sear and then bake the chicken, you sautee the mushrooms and pearl onions, you make the 2-two ingredient sauce and voila!

The results were good, but not great – though that may be because I actually used chicken breasts instead of the thighs I prefer and because I didn’t make enough sauce for the massive breasts I got (lord, that sounds dirty!).

The sauce, which was tasty enough, consisted of 2 tsp of chicken demi-glace dissolved in 5 oz of red wine. I used beef demi-glace, as I didn’t have the regular kind.

I also didn’t use pearl onions because Safeway failed to deliver them to me.

In all, I spent $20 to make this meal, which actually fed 3 of us with leftovers (those were really big chicken breasts) – so about 1\/3 less of what the meal kit would have cost.

I also went out of my way to look for “antibiotic-free” chicken, only to find out that California passed a law<\/a> to ban the use of growth-promotion antibiotics in chickens. Antibiotics can only be used if a veterinarian prescribes them to cure a specific ailment. So it would seem that any “antibotic-free” designation on chicken raised in CA is just for advertising purposes. I had wanted to see if antibiotic-free chicken tasted better than regular chicken, and obviously I found out it didn’t.

I did find out, though, that searing the chicken skin-side-down for a couple of minutes and then baking it at 400F, leaves you with a very nice crispy chicken skin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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