The score·From then
Onion gravy chicken
She never wrote it down. The onion is still in the air.
She never wrote it down. The onion is still in the air.
Recovered. Not cooked yet. A score for getting close.
One plate
the dark meat, extra gravy
The other
a smaller plate, the onions
unhurried·about 60 minutes
About this much
Adjust until it feels right.
- Chicken pieces, bone-in if you have them
- Two onions, sliced thick — this is the whole dish
- Salt, the way she would have done it
- A little flour if you want the gravy to hold
- Water or stock, enough to make a pan sauce
- Nothing else unless something comes back.
Play it
A suggestion, not a command.
- 01This one has not been made yet. It is recovered, not invented.
- 02Salt the chicken. Brown it without fussing.
- 03Onions in the same pan. Let them go past sweet, into gravy.
- 04A splash of water. Lid on. Leave it.
- 05When the kitchen smells like onion and a Sunday, it is close enough.
- 06If you make it, write what happened. That is how it stops being only a memory of then.