This dinner was in honor of my in-laws’ return from a trip to Wisconsin and Minnesota. Hey, you always have to have a reason to celebrate! In contrast to the previous family get-together in September, for which I procrastinated and ultimately missed our morning church service and a rehearsal, this one went pretty smoothly. I made two recipes from Cook’s Country, one of the shows in America’s Test Kitchen lineup, and I feel free to give the recipe for the chicken below because 1) I’m supplying my own pictures, and 2) I made some changes. They say that if you make three changes in a recipe it’s now yours, but they have to be fairly major changes. I don’t know that these are now mine, but I certainly have some advice to give. I had a friend in DC who said once, “Every time I make a recipe from Cook’s Illustrated [the magazine arm of the ATK empire], there’s always a point at which I say, ‘No way!’” That’s sort of what happens to me; there’s usually at least eye-rolling moment.
