Vintage Recipe Cards: Herbed Chicken & Artichokes

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DECEMBER 8, 2009 2:19AM

Rate: 21 Flag

Further adventures in really bad food photography from the 1970's!

Ingredients

2 1/2 to 3 pound broiling chicken, cut up
Salt and pepper
1 cup chicken bouillon
1 clove garlic, minced
1 branch celery, cut in half
1/2 cup coarsely chopped carrots
Bouquet Garni: thyme, parsley, bay leaf
1 cup pearl onions, canned or fresh
4 medium fresh or 2 ounce can sliced mushrooms
4 1/4-ounce can artichokes

Directions

Preheat oven to 400°. Season chicken with salt an pepper. Broil in a shallow pan, skin side down, 15 to 20 minutes - until golden brown; turn and broil 15 minutes until brown. Place in a casserole. Pour off fat. Pour bouillon into pan to dissolve pan seasonings. Pour bouillon with pan juices over chicken. Reduce heat 350°. Add garlic, celery, carrots and bouquet garni (thyme, parsley and bay leaf tied in cheese-cloth), cover and bake for 1 hour. Add onions, mushrooms and artichokes during last 20 minutes of cooking.

Serves:4

Preparation time: 1 hour 45 min

Approximate calories per serving:225

Suggested Menu

Green Salad with Buttermilk Dressing
Herbed Chicken and Artichokes
Water-Pack Canned Peaches

Author tags:

weight control no duh this will make you lose your appetite, open call, food/drink, don't those mushrooms look tasty?, i'm just here to help, bad food photography from the 1970's, foodie tuesday

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This is my contribution to helping you watch your waistline this holiday season.

iamsurly

December 08, 2009 02:19 AM

one branch of celery? a half cup of carrots? for a whole chicken? four mushrooms? this looks like something they'd come up with on "Survivor."

water-packed peaches? such a thing exists??

femme forte aka candace

December 08, 2009 02:29 AM

I like how they refer to it as a branch rather than a stalk.

iamsurly

December 08, 2009 02:35 AM

Boy, you said it when you labelled this as "really bad food photography." The ingredients sounded not so bad, the picture, welllll, not so much.

Why did people eat this way then? Why the disconnect?

Ablonde

December 08, 2009 02:36 AM

"coarsely chopped carrots"

?????
Whatever. Looks delicious!

spotted_mind

December 08, 2009 02:36 AM

Ah, yes. I have fond memories of my own Pig Dissection in High School...

WAIT.

That's supposed to be FOOD?

Oh god.

I gotta stop drinking.

Nyquil.

Verbal Remedy AKA Denise

December 08, 2009 02:44 AM

maybe it's the LSD, but that doesn't really look that bad to me.

Lonnie Lazar

December 08, 2009 02:51 AM

Yes, there are water canned peaches and I couldn't cook this if my life depended on it. We had pork chops for supper.

madcelt

December 08, 2009 03:18 AM

It occurs to me that should someone tape this to my fridge dieting would be much easier.

*shudder*

T.B. Cook

December 08, 2009 03:29 AM

Bouquet Garni? I'm on board! xox

Robin Sneed

December 08, 2009 03:29 AM

Oh yeah, I remember that dish...have never been the same since I first saw that particular card.

I'll take a pass on this round, trying to cut my bullion salt intake....

BuffyW

December 08, 2009 03:39 AM

What about the variation known as "Peaches & Herb" Chicken?

Rated

littlewillie

December 08, 2009 03:55 AM

Yep. Weight control. Whatever you do, don't add another mushroom.

Frank Indiana

December 08, 2009 06:41 AM

@ littlewillie ... this is the Peaches and Herb variation; 'cept Herb was chicken and Peaches was in the can ... says so right on the recipe.

Rod Emmons

December 08, 2009 08:07 AM

Y'all eat some strange stuff in CA. We eat a little strange in FL, too.

Rod Emmons

December 08, 2009 08:08 AM

Just how does one determine that a mushroom is "medium fresh"? And an entire clove of garlic for that whole dish? They must have been out of their minds.

O'Really?

December 08, 2009 08:25 AM

I'm not commenting on these recipe card posts anymore. It only encourages you.

cheshyre grin

December 08, 2009 08:36 AM

I am always able to watch my waistline. Some day I may be able to see my shoes again.

OEsheepdog

December 08, 2009 08:47 AM

Hmmmmm . . .

Owl_Says_Who

December 08, 2009 08:53 AM

Yeah I love that "medium fresh" thing too. Man, I hope someone served this to Nixon.

Juliet Waters

December 08, 2009 09:25 AM

oh god, that looks like a spleen.

(or what I suspect a spleen looks like)

Foolish Monkey

December 08, 2009 10:40 AM

Are they sure this isn't Orange Chicken?

Julie Tarp

December 08, 2009 11:51 AM

I'm hoping that the "medium" refers to the size and not the freshness level!

Jeanette DeMain

December 08, 2009 11:56 AM

Does something weird happen to the color in old printed images--like, all the blue tones fade away, leaving us with exceedingly orange food? Note the "weight control" tag on the upper-left corner of the recipe card. No shit.

Susan Mihalic

December 08, 2009 02:17 PM

That sounds like it's worth a fry, er, try.

Every time I see iamsurly I think of the line from Airplane.lol

As far as watching my waistline, I CAN SEE IT ALREADY!!

XJS AND ME

December 09, 2009 10:48 AM

What memories! My mother would have talked one of her friends into making this and then spent the balance of the week reminding the family how hard she worked at feeding us a nutrious meal.

stitch94133

December 09, 2009 12:19 PM

This needs cream of mushroom soup......and another hour in the oven. That's how my mama made it. (and yes, you can substitute spleen for the chicken.)