{"id":469,"date":"2009-01-29T07:49:02","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T07:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/?p=469"},"modified":"2009-01-29T07:49:02","modified_gmt":"2009-01-29T07:49:02","slug":"sweet-vermouth-chicken-spinach-rice-casserole-flaky-blood-orange-tart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/?p=469","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Vermouth Chicken, Spinach-Rice Casserole, Flaky Blood Orange Tart"},"content":{"rendered":"

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OK, so this isn’t exactly a menu I would put together if I were planning it from scratch, but I still have a TON of that leftover rice<\/a> around here, so as I was searching through my recipe files *(see photo below), looking for a recipe that called for pre-cooked rice, I came across this one (available online here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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This stuff was a great big hit. Almost all of us had seconds. It was EASY. Not gourmet or even particularly healthy, but easy. It would be a little more complicated if you didn’t already have pre-cooked rice on hand, but not too bad. I used onion powder, instead of onion flakes and also added a little Baby Bam<\/a>. If I make it again, I would probably use a little fresh, minced onion, sauteed in butter.<\/p>\n

I’ve been planning to make this chicken<\/a> for a while and already had the ingredients on hand. It’s adapted from this<\/a> Cooking Light recipe.<\/p>\n

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The tart recipe was a timely find from last January’s Food & Wine magazine<\/a>. I try to cook seasonally, but am frequently so far behind on reading my cooking periodicals that I end up using recipes from the same month of the previous<\/em> year. Makes no sense, I know, but I recently did a HUGE clean-out of my recipe files and came across this one. An opportunity to make citrus supremes<\/a> into a dessert? Perfect timing – see? – it’s January. Again<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Anyway…<\/p>\n

We are huge fans of the seasonal Cara Cara oranges<\/a> that are out right now. I’ve been making them into supremes<\/a> for the kids’ lunches almost daily (her friends fight over any leftovers); I’ve used them in a rice pudding<\/a>, I’ve baked them into cookies<\/a> and Parisian macaroons<\/a>, I’ve stirred them into cocktails<\/a>. They are DELICIOUS. The tart calls for a TON of blood oranges and, while Cara Caras aren’t an EXACT substitution for blood oranges, they are close enough.<\/p>\n

The tart has to freeze overnight, so we’ll have it tomorrow. Stay tuned for more info, but here are some photos from the tart prep:<\/p>\n

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\nMy sink, after peeling 9 oranges. Hubby said it looked like some sort of weird “Top Chef” challenge.<\/p>\n

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When I’m not culling through my old recipe files (collected over the past 20 years or so from newspapers, cooking magazines and online sources), I’m scouring through my cookbooks:<\/p>\n

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OK, so this isn’t exactly a menu I would put together if I were planning it from scratch, but I still have a TON of that leftover rice around here, so as I was searching through my recipe files *(see photo below), looking for a recipe that called for pre-cooked rice, I came across this … Continue reading “Sweet Vermouth Chicken, Spinach-Rice Casserole, Flaky Blood Orange Tart”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-desserts","category-entrees","category-side-dishes-starch","category-side-dishes-veggies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}