Uuuuh, Yup! My Saturday Night Flash Back, EX-Specially Good! I might just have to reneg on my divorce and we take this LIVE!
CHICKEN YASSA, a baked dish with an onion and mustard sauce, generally over jasmine rice. But, I find these days, I want less and less of meat and starch and more fresh vegetables; so, I overload the sweet onions, so’s you gotta look for the chicken, riiight! I like adding artichoke, mushrooms (and, yeah, zucchini woulda been good here, too), and oh, I did throw in a few baby new potatoes (I like to crust with Fresh Rosemary & Thyme), lots and lots of chopped garlic, and I’m salt sensitive, so, I tend to flavor with even more lemon, just a few caper berries and copious amounts of hot peppers!
The presentation, the colors & photography complements of my artistic background, all shine through in the mere creativity I endeavor to set on a plate! I mean, WOW! WHO KNEW!
The sauce was everything! Yup! Slurped it up from the bowl WITH MY FORK! And I almost went for the rubber spatula, as my tongue was too busy fending off that one-two punch of heat & tang! DO YOU EVEN GET WHERE UM COMING FROM!
NOTE, for those who don’t yet know, a most popular dish from Senegal, West Africa, I learned from My EX! He was the cook back then; that boy could put a hurt’n on some meat! His leg of lamb alone made me tremble, as I signed the divorce papers! Ain’t gon lie, some of my culinary moves come straight from him. Did I say, I miss his, uh, uh, cooking; so, well, I had to do something! You understand, not just any cook, uh, uh, I mean, not just any man will do! LOL
A girl gotta do! Yup! My azz had to learn how to cook...for myself! So, yeah, I got in a few good hooks and a little some'm-some'm to hold up my belt!
Anyway, all said, not exactly how I thought I’d be spending a Saturday night and I AM LIVE! DING! DING! DING! Now, that was just Round One! DO YOU HEAR ME! #ThingsThatMakeYouGoOom #TheGoodFoodLady