New recipes, January 8, 2012

Double Plum Baked Chicken from Cooking Light, and Leeks Vinaigrette from Bon Appétit. Green salad on the side. The leeks are especially fine! The sauce for the chicken was also quite nice.
To help us keep track of what we love, we are going to use a 1-5 scale to rate the recipes.
5 - Can't wait to make this again!
4 - Will make this again
3 - Good, may make this again
2 - OK, probably would not do it again
1 - Awful, definitely would not do it again
Using that scale, the leeks get a 4. The chicken sauce gets a 4, but the chicken was a bit tough--would make sure the chicken breast is unfolded and possible pounded to give a thinner, more rapidly cooking piece of chicken.
Wine: Infinite Monkey Theorem Petite Sirah 2009