If you’re mourning the loss of Domino and live on the West side of the US, you could do a lot worse than to pick up Sunset. It’s more of a lifestyle-y magazine than pure decor, but they do feature some great ‘real-life’ interiors and gardens and also have some fabulous recipes. The website is really excellent too.
A couple of nights ago we made this recipe for supper which I share with you because it is perfect weekday supper fodder – quick, easy, healthy, unusual and utterly, utterly delicious. Chicken is braised in a sauce of chopped tomatoes, canned chickpeas and chopped dried apricots with middle-eastern spices, which we served with couscous and spinach. The only changes we made from the recipe in the link was to use chicken thighs not breast and to not add any extra sugar, the apricots make it quite sweet enough as it is.
I took some photos but wasn’t very happy with the performance of my little point and shoot camera in the low evening light. Instead I took my slightly blurred photo and ran it through the completely awesome Poladroid app, which makes your existing digital photos look like Polaroids – not just the border but also the intriguing white balance and slight soft focus. You even see them ‘developing’ before your eyes. Huge fun.
Thankee kindly for the recipe link. Very timely, as I’m currently stumped for dinner ideas.
Ah, Sunset, the magazine of the West, and me a lifelong Westerner. I don’t know why I never thought to check out their website. Excellent.
Ooooh let me know how it goes. I have to say I thought it was stunningly good…
Will do!
I tried it and we liked it! Better as leftovers, as all my food is. One boy ate all the chicken off his plate and the other ate all the chickpeas. I loved the spices and the smell while it was cooking was incredible. I used chicken breast, and I bet the thighs were better.
Glad it went well…we’re going to make it again this week…so nice to see a kid shovelling down things like chickpeas…