I wasn't sure what to make tonight for dinner, so I blew the dust off my copy of Julia Child's The Way to Cook. I made butter-poached chicken breasts with tomato and mushrooms. Yum!

Melt some butter in a casserole (I used a cast iron Le Creuset pot) and add chicken breasts. Put in a 400 degree oven for 6-8 mins. Mine weren't nearly done at this point, so I took the pot out of the oven and sauteed the chicken until it was almost done. Then remove the chicken to a plate and throw some mushrooms into the butter/chicken juices. Saute for a couple minutes and put the mushrooms on the plate with the chicken.

Then saute some onion and garlic until tender in the same pot. Add some tomato pulp (I used a can of crushed tomatoes) and reduce until it's a nice thick sauce. I added some red wine, since I was drinking it anyway*. Once the sauce is thickened, put the chicken and shrooms back in to warm up, add salt and pepper, and yum!

I served it with some steamed broccoli and a baguette.

*As Julia said, "I love to cook with wine, and sometimes I put it in the food."

Yummy. If there's ever a FT Pot Luck gathering, you can bring this dish.

Everything, even chicken breasts, is tasty when you add enough butter! ^

This thread is a keeper. Not a fan of the tomato part but the rest sounds delish!

The tomatoes made the sauce that made it into a meal. Otherwise it would have been lacking something, IMO.

And yes, nerd, anything in butter is yummy. The secret to French cooking.

Maybe not everything:

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/p...ipe/index.html

(be sure to read the reviews of this one - I haven't laughed so hard in a very long time)

Good idea. I'm going to bar-b-que chicken breasts tonight. Oh and have a few Kona Longboard Island Lagers.


Here a picture of Julia's kitchen I took at the Smithsonian in June.

Sounds good. On the other hand, her beef bourgingnon is the most faffy way of making essentially a beef stew ever! I think I wasted about 4 hours of my life on that one! I'm told it tasted good, but was similar in likability to other beef dishes that take maybe 10 minutes hands on time! (I don't eat meat myself)