ONE OF MY FAVORITE RECIPES

It might not look like much but I think this might be my best dish I ever made. Coq a vin, or chicken drunk in an entire bottle of organic Pinot. Took me 3 hours straight and in between sautéing separate the chicken, the bacon, the mushrooms, the onion, I thought about Luis XIV, how people at his newly remodeled and expanded Versailles country palace might have developed this most intricate and truly exquisite dish. Maybe it was created by his cook to use up red wine about to go bad in the cellar? Why else would they have used such enormous quantity of red wine for a little chicken? Anywhoo, it was quiet at the dining table for a few more seconds than usual, as even the kids could tell they were tasting something special. Or maybe they didn’t and I just project? The delicacy of this dish made me eat ever so slowly. I’m now tempted to go on a Julia Child kick and cook more French food because they do have the cooking thing down, albeit not entirely fit for a weeknight, I’ll admit it 

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