Comments on: Smoked Fresh-Killed Chicken with Cottage Cheese Triple Cream Noodles

By: Roasting a chicken is a very good idea. « well fed, flat broke

Roasting a chicken is a very good idea. « well fed, flat broke — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 19:17:53 +0000

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By: She's Cookin'

She's Cookin' — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 05:39:03 +0000

Your post title intrigued me – when I was growing up in the south we killed our own chickens, my memories of this procedure does not elicit a warm, fuzzy feeling. But somehow your description of this meal has elevated chicken preparation to Simply sublime!

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 06:24:33 +0000

Well now I can comment, having been one of the “talkative” guest who was silenced by the chicken. It was a beautiful as it looks and better tasting than you can imagine. The mild smoky flavor in combination with the thyme and the bright edge of the Maldon salt would have silenced stronger people. It is true it was one of the those moments you had to be quiet in order to hear all the things running through your mind as the flavors came together in your mouth. AMAZING!
And the noodles were delightful, I actually did not get enough of those either but could not fit anymore in. Lindas home made cottage cheese is nothing like store bought, whole different class of flavor.
Rather than rambling on in my typical fashion let me just thank Linda for experimenting on me and my partner weekly. We look forward to all her cravings.

By: Lara Alexander

Lara Alexander — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 01:49:44 +0000

This looks beautiful. Do you always have fresh cottage cheese in your kitchen? You make it sound easy. I normally don’t like cottage cheese. But I do like it two ways: in a baked egg dish that is perfect for feeding breakfast to large numbers of people, and in the slow cooker lasagne recipe I have (which I made this afternoon with all of the greens from my garden). Cheers!

By: Kathy Gori

Kathy Gori — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:29:18 +0000

What you say about those “special meals” is so so so true. I live for those evenings and have been honored to have a few myself.
I don’t roast many chicken either and I find that those simple little perfectly elegant meals and always the ones that elicit the most silence.
When I showed my husband the pictures of your feast he said, “Oh yeah, That’ll shut em up”.
In short that is one hell of a gorgeous meal you made! I am in awe of the stuff you do! Ths enoodles!! Oh my!!!
I have also been lobbying for chickens here on our property and since we live out in the country next to a vineyard my main concern is varmints. Also I don’t know that I could actually kill my own birds. I’ve cleaned and plucked ducks and stuff but someone had already killed them for me. Maybe if I do do the chicken thing, you’d like to come down and dispatch some for me.