Chuck took us to West Africa tonight with a peanut stew, featured in Saveur's October 2012 Special Collector's Issue (it's their 150th). We'd made the braciola from this issue earlier which was just divine, but I have to admit I was a bit skeptical about this (I'm so Eurocentric, it's pathetic). Thanks again to Chuck's precise cooking, it was totally delicious (the $77 grocery bill would've fed a West African family of 12 for a year!). A combination of fresh ginger, ground coriander, turmeric, ground cumin, black pepper, ground cinnamon, fennugreek seeds (which we substituted with mustard seeds), chile de arbol, and cloves scented the kitchen as the chicken thighs cooked in a light onion, tomato, and peanut butter sauce to which we added eggplant and okra. What a wonderful balance of spicy, savory, and sweet! This one goes into the repetoire; in fact, the whole issue is a keeper.
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