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chicken cacciatore - salt and pepper chicken pieces, lightly dredge chicken pieces in flour, brown chicken in olive oil in a dutch oven or huge pot, remove from pot. add garlic, onions, celery, maybe bacon if you want, sautee a few minutes. add mushrooms, carrots if you want but not many, add red wine and scrape up all the burnt bits at bottom of pot (YUM!). add tomato sauce, oregano, 4 or 5 cloves, basil, 2 or 3 bay leafs, chicken broth, and browned chicken pieces, and simmer for a few hours, tasting in the last hour to adjust with salt, pepper, maybe some sugar.
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