{"id":6310,"date":"2008-05-30T21:21:20","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T21:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/2008\/05\/graybos-yummy-tarragon-chicken\/"},"modified":"2008-05-30T21:21:20","modified_gmt":"2008-05-30T21:21:20","slug":"graybos-yummy-tarragon-chicken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/05\/30\/graybos-yummy-tarragon-chicken\/","title":{"rendered":"Graybo&#8217;s Yummy Tarragon Chicken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Really, it&#8217;s yummy.<\/p>\n<p>INGREDIENTS (serves two):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 small tub (200ml) of cr\u00e8me fra\u00eeche, reduced fat if you must.<\/li>\n<li>2 chicken breasts, roughly cubed. For goodness sake, get decent chicken, not cheap water-filled, factory-farmed rubbish.<\/li>\n<li>1 leek, trimmed and thinly sliced<\/li>\n<li>a little butter<\/li>\n<li>a little olive oil<\/li>\n<li>a good handful of tarragon, roughly chopped or torn, stems removed. You&#8217;ve got this growing outside the door, right?<\/li>\n<li>tagliatelli sufficient for two. Fresh stuff.<\/li>\n<li>black pepper<\/li>\n<li>a bottle of good red wine, maybe two<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>METHOD:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>open the wine. Have a glass for yourself and one for your dining partner.<\/li>\n<li>boil some water for doing the tag.<\/li>\n<li>in a large pan or, better still, a wok, melt a good dollop of butter over a medium to high heat.<\/li>\n<li>fry the leek until just beginning to soften. Remove from the pan and reserve.<\/li>\n<li>refill your glasses.<\/li>\n<li>add a little olive oil to the pan and get it hot.<\/li>\n<li>throw in the chicken and scoot around the pan until lightly browned.<\/li>\n<li>get the tag going (I assume you have decent fresh pasta, none of the dried stuff &#8211; if you have dried pasta, you should have started this a while ago).<\/li>\n<li>add the entire pot of cr\u00e8me fra\u00eeche to the chicken. Stir.<\/li>\n<li>return the leeks to the pan. Stir some more.<\/li>\n<li>mill in some black pepper (nice if you have one of those crusher-type mills, rather than a grinding-type). Stir it.<\/li>\n<li>throw in the tarragon. Yes, you guessed &#8211; stir.<\/li>\n<li>stir it all up some more.<\/li>\n<li>drain the pasta and get it on the plate.<\/li>\n<li>pour the chicken\/tarragon\/leek\/cr\u00e8me fra\u00eeche mix over the top.<\/li>\n<li>blimey, those glasses look low. Top &#8217;em up.<\/li>\n<li>Eat. Drink. Relax. Candles. Good music. You know the deal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Takes but ten minutes. Ideal for Friday night. We had it after a starter of fresh local asparagus with shaved parmesan, butter and apple balsamic vinegar. With gin. And tonic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really, it&#8217;s yummy. INGREDIENTS (serves two): 1 small tub (200ml) of cr\u00e8me fra\u00eeche, reduced fat if you must. 2 chicken breasts, roughly cubed. For goodness sake, get decent chicken, not cheap water-filled, factory-farmed rubbish. 1 leek, trimmed and thinly sliced a little butter a little olive oil a good handful of tarragon, roughly chopped or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-and-drink","category-married-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}