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Simple and easy. Here’s how to make it at home. Adapted from Joe Carroll | Nick Fauchald | Feeding the Fire | Artisan, 2015 “This smoked chicken makes me giddy!” Those were the exact words typed by one of our most trusted recipe testers, Larry Noak, moments after he hauled his bird off the smoker. Crisp skin, succulent meat, pervasive smokiness, a pronounced yet impeccably balanced spice rub—all traits we covet in a smoked chicken recipe. We can understand why he got a little giddy. We think you will, too. To make this smoked chicken recipe, the authors simply took...

  This made-from-scratch classic takes crispy baked tortillas chips and tosses them in a spicy, zesty salsa verde studded with crisp turkey sausage. We drizzle the salsa-soaked chips in crema and sprinkle with crumbled cotija cheese to finish it off. Breakfast Chilaquiles Verdes There are two kinds of breakfast people in this world. The sweet and the savory. As the breakfast archives in Cooking for keeps can attest to, we are firmly in the savory camp. And breakfasts like today’s Chilaquiles Verdes are what truly sing to my savory loving heart. Not only do they combine all my favorite checkpoints in the...

Originally published December 24, 2003.  I’ve been a haunted man for 13 years, and I place the blame squarely on Tiny Tim’s crooked little shoulders. It was December 1990, and I had just finished rereading A Christmas Carol. Inspired by Tiny’s exultant prayer, “God bless us every one,” I decided that I, too, would have a proper Christmas dinner. The next day I marched into my local butcher shop in Brooklyn and ordered a goose. Luigi, a short, rotund man who had to stand on a milk crate to talk to his customers, leaned over the meat case and cocked an...

Sweet savoury sauce coated all over the deep-fried chicken wings is so tasty. The spiciness from the generous amount of pepper makes this dish so unique. Nagoya-style Fried Chicken Wings makes it into the top 3 of the Nagoya’s specialty gourmet food. In Japan, people call it ‘Nagoya no Tebasaki’ (名古屋の手羽先), meaning Nagoya’s (‘Nagoya no’, 名古屋の) chicken wings (‘tebasaki’, 手羽先). The name only indicates something to do with chicken wings, but people know what it looks like and how good it tastes. Origin of Nagoya-style Fried Chicken Wings Nagoya no Tebasaki was accidentally invented by a restaurant owner in Nagoya....

It’s quick, delicious, and because it’s cooked in the oven, I can cook all the chicken at once with little to no mess. At least, no visible mess. You can also pop these babies on the grill in the summer for that smokey flavor. When I anticipate that I don’t have much time in the kitchen during the week, I just make a big batch of these chicken and store them in the refrigerator for reheating. This buys me time in the week so I can focus on the more important task at hand, getting 4 stars on my favorite...