Isn’t that a great term? I picked it up at The Splendid Table.
Foodinista (n)1. A person with a passion for eating.2. Lynne Rossetto Kasper describes foodinistas as “the kind of people who start plotting dinner while eating breakfast.”
Perfect, eh?
Anyway, here’s the latest from the kitchen of this Foodinista:
Filling:
- Seasoned chopped chicken
- Sauteed onions
Crepes
- Homemade or purchase (It’s about time-saving for me!)
Sauce:
- Golden mushroom condensed soup
- Sour cream
- Fat-free milk
- Chopped mushrooms (freshly sauteed or from a jar if you’re in a pinch)
How to make the magic happen:
You can either go the somewhat lazy route and buy already cooked and chopped chicken. Or you could somewhat redeem yourself by using leftover chicken (from a rotisserie bird, home roasted or the like).
Or you can prepare seasoned chicken breasts from scratch and still have this meal on the table in under an hour, including 20 minutes for you to enjoy a glass of wine while things bubble in the oven.
It’s your choice – who am I to judge? I prepared my own chicken breasts (thus the reason I was getting chicken out to thaw at 11 pm). Here’s how I did it –
Make sure your chicken breasts have completely thawed (overnight in the fridge should do it). Rinse and pat dry. And need I say that you should pat dry using paper towels, then Clorox spray your countertops? {Full confession: I have issues with raw meat.}
Place chicken on a foil lined baking sheet. For crepes, the chicken doesn’t need to be heavily seasoned. I simply put a small amount olive oil on both sides and sprinkled with fresh black pepper and Beau Monde seasoning.
Soy sauce/red wine adds a layer to the overall flavor of the sauce, without actually changing the flavor significantly. Think of it this way: it deepens the taste. Without it, you have a nice mushroom/creamy soup-sauce. With it, you have a deeply intense mushroom sauce. It makes a difference!! I actually used Japanese soy sauce – it’s a little darker, a little more flavorful – and put in probably about 2 T.
Evenly divide the filling ingredients between the number of crepes you have. I used 2 chicken breasts and 1 medium sized onion, which filled 6 crepes. This served 3 hungry adults with leftovers for 2 lunches.
Doesn’t that look yummy? Trust the members of the Hayley Household…it was!
The finished product looks wonderful but, I must confess….there's been chicken served 7 different ways this week in the dining room and everyone has about had all the "cluck-cluck" they can take! 2 months without a kitchen! Food being catered from a nearby hospital. I guess chicken is easiest for the chefs to prepare and truck over.
I'd love a good spaghetti dinner right now! (And it's only breakfast time).
Too much of any one thing isn't good at all. I love chicken, but don't think I could eat it more than twice a week.
Did another chef get the heave-ho at your place?
And for anyone who is curious about why soy sauce or red wine can add so much to a dish, I've finally remembered what the term for this is: UMAMI.
Read more about umami here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taste
No. the chef is still here plus two additional cooks were hired. Kitchen has been undergoing total overhaul, and remodel. Employees biding their time for now.
What's the difference between a foodinista and a foodie?
foodie is a word. Found in the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
foodinista is a person. His passion, blogs and writing may be taking on a use similar to Xerox.
To Justoldbits:
After following your link to foodinista I believe the person is a woman–or a tranny?–, since there is a reference to "my husband" and to numerous items of high fashion women's wear.
I think I am a foodie.
I believe that foodie and foodinista are, by definition, the same thing.
I simply believe that foodie has become a tired term, in need of replacement. Though I do acknowledge the gender limitations of the term.