280318 Sun Oct 16 17:20:23 -0700 2005 3 31 Home Cooking 0 1488825 She made this on tv today and it looked great; recipe is not on her web site. Does anyone have a recipe? (She used reconstituted dried figs and Cognac) Sun Oct 16 17:20:23 -0700 2005 0 erica 1 1489929 I was just thinking of making this tonight. If I remember correctly: She soaked dried mission figs in separate bowl. She browned chicken pieces in one pan. Browned cubed slab bacon in another. Removed bacon, and then browned onions, celery and carrots in bacon fat. Added flour. Added tomatoes and cooked this in broth. Strained the resulting sauce into the chicken pan, added the bacon and the figs...can't remember where the cognac came in. Cooked everything til tender and beautiful. Served over yellow rice that cooked with achiote oil and sofrito and alcaparaddo. does that sound right? Mon Oct 24 13:40:34 -0700 2005 1488825 0 Murghi 2 1491084 she deglazed the pan with the cognac...added flour and cooked it to get rid of the raw taste of it, but not until it was too brown. She added about a tablespoon of tubed tomato paste to the espagnal sauce base and about 3 or 4 cups of heated beef broth for the liquid, as well as a spring of fresh thyme...she strained it all , put it back into the bacon crisping pan(eliminating the mirepoix of vegetables) with the bacon and figs and chicken pieces and simmered until the figs had melted into tiny pearls into the sauce and served with that beautiful annoto oil rice. Mon Oct 31 12:06:43 -0800 2005 1489929 0 barbara 3 1491136 I did make my version of it, and it was delicious! Mon Nov 07 12:46:44 -0800 2005 1491084 0 Murghi