Saturday, December 29, 2012

Chicken and Artichoke Fricassee


Thursday 6 December
This afternoon Ute, Patrick, and Jud produced a Tytus-scholars' tea, featuring Ute's cheese hors d'oeuvres, tangerines and apples, stollen with marzipan inside, sugar-dusted cookies, chocolate-dusted almonds, and a performance of Theodor Storm's Knecht Ruprecht, with Patrick in the title role.

All that meant that we weren't very hungry, but nonetheless came home for a hearty meal of chicken and artichoke fricassee.
Of course, we made a few changes.  We didn't use flour or bay leaf, we used the regular white mushrooms we had rather than the morels we didn't, and as we were using boneless breast, we sliced and added the chicken at very end.  Oh, and a shot of whipping cream and salt stood in for the crème fraîche.  It was tasty enough to waken our appetites even after our sugar-dusted tea.

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