coq au vin

quick and easy meals for 1 or 2


coq au vin

Some great friends we met down here had us over to their house for some wine and eats. Sonya is a great cook and made this. I thought I knew a lot about cooking , but this was great and a new experience for me. I did it at home with a few personal touches (would you believe it?)

A couple of breasts and a couple of legs cut the breasts in half (crunch right thru them) cut the legs in half at the joints. Take the skins off if you want ,,,or not.
8 slices of bacon
15 or so pearl onions
1/2 med onion chopped
about a large handful of baby carrots
2 large cloves of garlic minced
about a cup of sliced mushrooms.
1/4 cup chopped fresh or 2 tablespoons of dried parsley
1/2 tbsp marjom ( if you have it)
1 bay leaf (you oughta have it)
1/2 tbsp thyme
1/2 tbsp sage
3 cups red wine or 1/2 and 1/2 red and white
salt and pepper to taste

1 1/2 cups rice


Cut the bacon crossway's and put it a stock pot big enough to hold the whole thing. add the carrots and cook for about 5 minutes med heat stirring once in a while, until the bacon starts to get brown on the edges. Add the onions cook for another 2-3 minutes then the garlic for about 1 more minute. Add the spices and stir it up. Move the pot over to the side of the burner and put the chicken in the hot side of the pot. Stir and turn the chicken over a few times until it's browned all over. Add the wine and mix it up. Cover and simmer for 1 hour (or more) stirring every 10 min or so. Add some more wine if it starts to get a little dry looking. Add the mushrooms about 5 min from serving.

 After about 45 min. bring 3 cups of water to a boil and add the rice and a little salt. Cook it til the rice is soft but chewy.

Serve it up!!! with some more of that red wine and some crusty bread. It'll go over great!!

P.S. Sonya likes to add some cognac with the wine shhhhh.