For some reason, Presidents' Day wasn't on my radar. I knew the boys were off school, but it just didn't register why they were off today. So, I completely failed on our annual Presidents' Day Hoe Cakes breakfast . Whoops. I decided to make it up to them with a festive dinner. I read a couple of articles about presidents' favorite dishes, then decided to create a menu based our nation's first gourmet (president): Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson traveled abroad extensively and knew a great deal about different cuisines. He was enthusiastic about his garden and it housed more than 250 varieties of herbs and vegetables,150 varieties of fruit. Many of them were considered exotic, and some - such as the tomato - were even thought to be poisonous by most people at that time. Jefferson was not a vegetarian though he rarely ate meat. In fact, he consumed very few animal products at all. When he did, this dish was one of his favorites: Chicken Fricassee. It's...