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Every recipe from every 2004 issue of Food & Wine, the top-selling cuisine magazine - all in one beautiful volume. More than 900,000 subscribers heartily agree: there's always something delicious going on at Food & Wine. And it's all here in the annual cookbook, which includes every recipe published in the magazine during the year 2004 - more than 500 dishes accompanied by scrumptious-looking photographs.

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Food & Wine Annual Cookbook 2005: An Entire Year of Recipes

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Date: March 2005

ISBN: 1932624015

Publisher: American Express Publishing

Hardcover

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Mascarpone-Stuffed Roast Chicken
with Spring Herb Salad
Recipe from: Food & Wine Annual Cookbook 2005
Cookbook Heaven at Recipelink.com

Active: 30 minutes
Total: 1 hour 40 minutes
Servings: 6

1 cup mascarpone cheese
1/2 cup flat-leaf parsley leaves, plus 1 tablespoon minced parsley
1 tablespoon minced thyme
1 tablespoon minced tarragon
1 teaspoon finely grated lemon zest
1 garlic clove, minced
Salt and freshly ground pepper
2 (3 1/2 pound) chickens
1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons hazelnut oil
1/4 cup fresh orange juice
1 tablespoon snipped chives
1 tablespoon minced shallot
2 cups mâche or mesclun
1/2 cup basil leaves
1/2 cup celery leaves
1/4 cup chervil leaves

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
In a small bowl, mix the mascarpone with the minced parsley, thyme, tarragon, lemon zest and garlic and season the mixture with salt and pepper.
Starting at the neck of one of the chickens, gently loosen the chicken skin, working your hands toward the drumsticks; be sure to leave the skin nearest the cavity opening attached.
Spread half of the mascarpone filling under the skin, working it toward the drumsticks. Season the cavity with salt and pepper Repeat with the other chicken. Put the chickens in a large roasting pan and season them all over with salt and pepper.
Roast for 15 minutes. Lower the oven temperature to 350 degrees F and bake for 45 minutes longer, or until an instant-read thermometer inserted in a thigh registers 170 degrees F. Let the chickens stand for 20 minutes, then carve and transfer to a platter.
Meanwhile, in a bowl, stir the hazelnut oil with the orange juice, chives and shallot and season with salt and pepper
In a large bowl, toss the mache, basil, celery leaves, chervil and the remaining 1/2 cup of parsley leaves with half of the vinaigrette. Mound the salad over the chicken and serve, passing more vinaigrette on the side.

Geoffrey Zakarian

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