I've made it twice since the original poster put it on the forum. Thanks, sushipup! What is amazing is how incredibly simple the technique is. I guess from a food science standpoint, the skin is frying in the rendered fat, and the flesh is steaming in the covered skillet so it's nice and juicy. While you wouldn't call this health food, I would imagine that it's probably better for you than regular fried chicken (just look at all that fat that remains in the skillet!) but still has some of the crunchy mouthfeel that you associate with fried chicken. While I have the greatest respect for M. Pepin's skill, I do find this recipe as written to be a tad too salty. And last night, I didn't bother making the sauce. I used just a light sprinkle of salt and a generous grinding of white pepper--turned out fabulous.

You're welcome, swfr, I'm glad I could help. Few additional suggestions: Round the island seating area. A curved edge makes it easier for people at the counter to talk than when they are seated in a straight line. It looks like you've got room to do this. Just be sure to allow at least 60" between counter edge and table. If you plan to do grilling on the deck, I'd add a door closer to the kitchen area. You could do either a pair of sliding doors, as suggested above, or a run of windows book-ended by two French doors. If you slide the table a few inches closer to the exterior wall and steal a few inches from the pantry, you'd have enough room for a shallow (12"-15") cabinet against the pantry wall without losing adequate aisle space around your kitchen table. This could be your command central or a display cabinet. I think it would be nice if you had something in that space other than just a table. Like this: [[(https://www.houzz.com/photos/shaker-grey-transitional-kitchen-phvw-vp~88209) [Traditional Kitchen[(https://www.houzz.com/photos/traditional-kitchen-ideas-phbr1-bp~t_709~s_2107) by Dublin Kitchen & Bath Designers Glenvale Kitchens Or a built-in cabinet like in this photo: [[(https://www.houzz.com/photos/monticello-drive-traditional-kitchen-dallas-phvw-vp~846694) [Traditional Kitchen[(https://www.houzz.com/photos/traditional-kitchen-ideas-phbr1-bp~t_709~s_2107) by Fort Worth Design-Build Firms V Fine Homes Or a narrow table with artwork above like this: [[(https://www.houzz.com/photos/brownhouse-design-traditional-dining-room-san-francisco-phvw-vp~67412) [Traditional Dining Room[(https://www.houzz.com/photos/traditional-dining-room-ideas-phbr1-bp~t_722~s_2107) by Los Altos Interior Designers & Decorators Brownhouse Design, Los Altos, CA Another idea for that pull-out cab to the left of the fridge: store table leaves in it. I recently inherited a lovely old oak table, which I adore, but now I've got to figure out a convenient place to store the table leaves. Add me to the list of people encouraging you to rethink the prep sink at the corner end of the island. That is prime landing space for items coming from the fridge, grocery bags coming in from the garage and items going to and from the dining room. I'm basing this on my frustration with my current kitchen's set-up. I have 16" of island counter for the above purposes and for setting down hot items coming out of the oven and it drives me crazy (admittedly, a short trip) that I don't have more room (I'm fixing this when I remodel). In your mind, walk through all the ways you'll use your kitchen and see if sticking with a corner prep sink will be an issue for you. You have a long enough island that moving the sink in from the corner will still give you plenty of room to prep on the island.

The other night one of the regulars admitted that they just flagged anything they did not like. While supposedly it takes two flags to remove a comment last Friday it seemed like a post was barely there and it was gone. Currently there is a lag time between my hitting submit and my comments being posted. I am suspecting I am on the bad list as back when I worked at a certain place when people were being monitored there was also a delay. HT is not the discussion group that it was before about late 2015 and is more like a bunch of hounds baying at a fox sometimes.

Eeew. You can have your thrills, but the disgusting truth is "IT'S PEOPLE!!!" Thanks for identifying the product. I know gamers who do the can't move eyes to eat zombie stare. They usually have some peripheral actual human beings who shove one handed food at them. Coders are more likely to get up to stretch, go to the bathroom and grab something to eat. They have chicklet mats that cover keyboards so you can still use them which help with the the Rule of NRITK (no ramen in the keyboard), sometimes spelled NRIK, pronounced "nerk" or by some purists "nert'k". A pasty sad lot, the bunch of them. I can imagine that they like to pretend their meal replacement goo really is people. :(