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Caprese stuffed chicken

Why is it that chefs and cooking magazines don't seem to tell us simple tricks that add a lot of flavor to a recipe? In this case, marinating the chicken with various spices softens the chicken and creates flavor. I learned this method in a number of other recipes that I was making. Those dishes were designed for a long marinade, and generally a slow cooking process. The results are very good with this process, so why not try using it in other ways? So what to use for a faster cooking method? In this Caprese stuffed chicken, I did exactly that. In doing so, I began to create the flavor layers that we always hear about food cooking shows.  I simply mixed salt, pepper, and generous amounts of dried oregano with olive oil. I poured it into the chicken, rubbed it, and put it in the fridge for 30 minutes to an hour. I took the chicken out of the fridge and let it heat about 15 minutes. So, I was ready to bake the chicken. This chicken could easily be served with this marinade f

What did watching the Club World Cup tell us about Qatar’s World Cup preparations?

Last month's match provided Qatar and its organisers a mini test run in advance of hosting the World Cup in 2022. Matt Ladson become in Doha to evaluate how arrangements in the Gulf kingdom are growing Qatar stadium Qatar’s hosting of the World Cup has been mired in controversy, with the tiny united states of simply 2.6 million humans - of which simply 10% are Qatari - going through large questions over human rights because it employs a big migrant staff to construct not simplest the stadiums wished, but additionally the infrastructure - or in a few cases, entire cities. A visit to the underneath-production Lusail Stadium, an 80,000 potential area 23km north of Doha, with the intention to host the hole fit and the World Cup very last on December 18, 2022, reveals completely abandoned (in each sense of the phrase) land around it. The surrounding Lusail City is not yet built and instead there are vast mounds of sands as workers put together land for creation. It takes sand