Comfort Me with Chicken
“Conscious uncoupling" is one way to describe Gwyneth Paltrow’s split from husband Chris Martin. But after a day of crafting diplomatic public statements and recovering your lifestyle website from crashing due to traffic overload, what you really want to do it stop talking and roast a chicken. Or at least that’s what Gwyneth wants.
Goop’s newsletter today, titled “One Bird, Three Meals,” demonstrates how to break down a chicken into three parts and cook those parts: the legs, flash-roasted, the breasts, grilled, and the carcass made into a broth that flavors a rice pilaf. Homey, comforting chicken: one of the greatest breakup foods of all time.
Roast it whole or pick your part.
Drench the wings in honey sauce.
Don’t put that paper bag over your head; roast some chicken thighs in it.
Form chicken meatballs and simmer them in a springy minestrone.
Or try your hand at a healthier, homemade General Tso-style dish.
Basically: cook some chicken and eat it, cross-legged, on the couch, wearing sweatpants.
Gwynie, here’s to some quiet moments in the kitchen. With chicken.
