Surrounded By Scalawags

Food post! Monday dinner: Altamira Stuffed Chicken, boiled root veggies, and spinach salad.  Recipes from The Paleo Diet by Loren Cordain.  The recipe actually called for stuffing a whole chicken; I adapted it by tenderizing a chicken breast with a mallet, layering the stuffing on top, then rolling it Cordon Blue style.  The stuffing was assembled from chicken livers, celery, apples, raisins, white wine (recipe called for red), and walnuts.  The side dish was simply boiled carrots and parsnips, seasoned with pepper and dill. I served it with a spinach salad made with walnuts and grape tomatoes.

And in a side note, I was in New Orleans all last week when the bad weather rolled through Tuscaloosa.  I was lucky, I came back to find my house and vehicles were still there.  Where I live (north of the river off of Snows Mill Avenue) had hardly any damage.  A tree was down in my neighborhood, and part of a fence was blown over.  Otherwise, nothing.  Like I said, lucky.