This Valentine’s Day, we bring you Chicken La Tulipe and Valentine’s advice from one Jonathon Reynolds.
This Valentine’s Day recipe for Chicken La Tulipe is remarkably easy to make. It achieves the crispy-brown perfection of a great roast chicken. That would be good all by itself. But add mushrooms, cognac, and a cream sauce you have something to love. The dish was first cooked at a beloved and romantic Greenwich Village N.Y restaurant called “La Tulipe”. Now about Mr. Reynolds: Jonathon Reynolds wrote for talk shows helmed by both David Frost and Dick Cavett. He brought this superb recipe to the New York Times which soon published it in 2000. Don’t be put off by the time it takes. A good portion of it is while the chicken roasts and you and your love interest can enjoy a drink or two.
Back to Mr. Reynolds and his Valentine’s Day Chicken La Tulipe
Mr. Reynolds, a bachelor, discovered that a man cooking for a woman was wildly seductive. He never claimed to understand the phenomenon fully but he reported that “perhaps it’s the surprise, or the role reversal…or the implied altruism – he’s taking the time to whip up that bavarois just for me—but every woman I’ve asked claims that a man cooking specifically for her is an aphrodisiac.” The Times also tested among men cooking for men and women cooking for women and it had the same effect. So if you want to impress, make this Valentine’s Day dish and you’ll have people falling all over you. Or at least one special person.
La Tulipe, the source of the original recipe, was awarded 3 stars by the New York Times for its cooking.
La Tulipe was one of those Greenwich Village restaurants that you entered by going down a few steps and into the base of a New York City Brownstone. It was extremely small. You walked through a little bar, reminiscent of Paris, and then were ushered even further back to a cluster of tables in a chocolate-colored room with pretty tulip sconces and flower arrangements, more often than not, of tulips. A couple named John and Sally Darr owned the place and among its many fans was Julia Child herself. John Darr ran the front of the house and Sally never emerged from the kitchen where she cooked and took her time doing it. The waits were notoriously long. But you were rewarded with a very romantic dinner experience until the place finally closed in 1991. To read more about La Tulipe and Sally Darr, go to https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/16/dining/sally-darr-dead.html Here is the recipe and after it some further Valentine’s Day suggestions.
A great chicken roasted to crispy brown perfection then topped with morel mushrooms in a cognac cream sauce. Chicken La Tulipe
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