Poached Chicken Smorgasbord

This is one of my favorite recipes in the book. The elements are homey and probably in your pantry right now. Casual and easy, like an indoor picnic, it’s a perfect meal for when you don’t feel like cooking or when you need to feed a crowd—after a bracing hike, before a Friday night game, at a lazy Sunday brunch. It’s very easy to increase quantities without increasing the work, and it requires no fussy attention from you. But this dish has everything: a little something sweet, something sa