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My Dry Rotisserie Chicken vs. Roast Chicken: Cage Match 🍗

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Resorted to grabbing a store-bought rotisserie chicken. Would not have ended well without intervention. Creamy mushroom sauce:  https://greenswater.blogspot.com/2026/06/creamy-mushroom-sauce.html Next time, I’m roasting a chicken properly — using a mash‑up of two techniques Jamie from Anti-Chef touches on in one of his videos: Jacques Pépin’s rotating‑the‑pan method Marco Pierre White’s “stuff the cavity with veg” approach If you want to see Jamie suffer through it on YouTube (his specialty): @antichef Anti‑Chef Commits To The Bit Jamie executes technically challenging recipes from the cookbooks of well‑known chefs exactly as written. Obscure ingredients, fussy steps, no shortcuts. We watch him struggle, persist and occasionally triumph. As Queen of Hacks, an ingredient like orange blossom water would not make it into my cart.  When an orange would do.  Chef Lineage Behind the Techniques Jacques Pépin , the GOAT. His excellent autobi...
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Creamy Mushroom Sauce

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A flexible, savory sauce that worked on the dry store-bought rotisserie chicken I had last week and would work for: pasta, grains, roasted vegetables, eggs.   It’s fast, easy-going, with staple ingredients, while being gourmet, to use the old-fashioned word.   Ingredients 2 small containers mushrooms (Bella, mixed, or your favorite), coarsely chopped Vegan butter or regular butter Olive oil 1–2 cups veggie or chicken stock 2 cloves garlic or Dorot cubes 1–2 tsp mustard (Dijon recommended) Splash of lemon Cream or vegan cream.   Nutpods is my North Star, and an internet favorite:   https://amzn.to/3Q6DN6y Salt or truffle salt Black pepper Instructions Sauté the mushrooms Heat a mix of butter and olive oil in a sauté pan. Add the mushrooms and a pinch of salt. Cook for about 10 minutes until they release moisture and develop color. Build the sauce base Keeping the heat on, pour in 1–2 cups of stock . Add the garlic and mustard. ...
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A re‑celebration 🍋 ...

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... of a Hudson Yards lemon exhibition on Greens Water.  https://x.com/BarbanelT/status/2062898323304939620 I don’t re-post enough, actually.   #summerarts
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Are you ok? The K‑Shaped Economy

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If you’re trying to understand all the K‑shaped economy talk, here’s the simplest way to picture it: the standard K chart tracking time and performance is an inverted, backward K tilted roughly 90 degrees to the right.  Sometimes you’ll see an upright K instead:   One arm goes up (winners). One arm goes down (strugglers).  Hanging off the upper K arm like the “Hang In There Kitty” posters of yore? You are not alone. There are some interesting K charts out there. Which arm of the K are you on? In good economic times or bad, there are cookies. Tate’s Bake Shop, from near Greens Water’s hometown, are cookies with a dedicated following:   https://amzn.to/3yqz7tO Photo from Unsplash, the “crowd‑sourced library of high‑quality free‑to‑use stock photos.” Credit: markus‑spiske‑53AIdxedO9g‑unsplash. When life gives you lemons. 🍋 And: @on_trees13711 This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate, I may earn a small commission if you purchase through th...
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A Healthier Lemonade 🍋

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Some of us are lemon people: lemon bars, lemon fettuccine, lemon soap. Lemonade on a summer day is one of life’s simplest pleasures. Riffing off Dollar Days at the local grocery store, when lemons are a dollar on sale, here is a healthier lemonade that’s bright and hydrating. Ingredients ·      1 cup coconut water Here’s a good one, https://amzn.to/3V0Kk7N Juice of 1 lemon 1–2 tsp agave or maple syrup Pinch of salt Optional: mint, thyme, or trace minerals Adjust to taste. Coconut Lemon Water High: Coconut water adds natural electrolytes Lemon brings acidity and vitamin C Agave/maple syrup are nutritive sweeteners — simply better sources of sweetener than hard white sugar… These are more complex flavor raves A pinch of salt turns this into a DIY electrolyte drink instead of a $40 online powder Lemons with benefits:   https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/6-lemon-health-benefits Ideal for lemonade: https://amzn.to/4eeRxo...
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