Saturday night, with the cooler weather and all the ingredients purchased, I (with some able assistance from Lou), made Jenn's Chicken with Tomato and Feta, along with the Sesame Orzo with Charred Scallions.
All in all, it was an excellent meal (though I didn't read it clearly and had only thawed two chicken breasts, but we made the sauce as is (save I had already put in half of the oregano called for, but it was still tasty), and we are planning on using the leftover sauce on some pasta later this week. The orzo, while tasty, took too many pans to prepare for such a small dish, so I will not likely be making that particular recipe again. Plus, Lou is not keen on sesame seeds.
My only query was, well after the meal was eaten and put away, was Where did the olives go? Jenn's recipe calls for olives in the ingredient list, but nowhere in the prep.
A bit of Googling turned up this version, which uses rosemary instead of oregano, and has the olives added in with the cheese, at the end.
So next time (and there WILL be a next time for this), we will be better prepared to use those olives we bought.
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Oh, yeah -- the olives. Sorry about that. Since neither Michael nor I like olives, I've left them out when I was cooking and so I never noticed that little glitch in the directions.
As for the orzo, I've ditched one stage of pan-cleaning by buying the toasted sesame seeds that come in a jar. Usually in the Asian section of most larger grocery stores. I just like this dish so much myself that - although I don't make it often - it will definitely stay on my list.
Glad to see someone using the recipes off the site! And I'm pleased you liked it well enough that you'll be having it again.
Posted by Jenn | August 26, 2003 8:28 AM
Posted on August 26, 2003 08:28