(Photos: Dr. Biggles)
This episode of "What did you have for dinner last night?" is brought to us by the revered master of the coals and all that's carnivorous, Dr. Biggles of Meathenge fame. Shame on you if you call yourself a foodie and don't visit his site every day!
Biggles did an uber-simple weekday meal, "Survival Citrus Chicken a la Biggles", along with a green salad. A quick marinade of lemon juice on the chicken and a healthy rub of Survival Spice™, and he was cookin'. Biggles tells the tale in his inimitable way, in the extended entry.
What did you have for dinner last night? Email me with a picture and a description! Important: delete the spam busting "REMOVETHESEWORDS" from the email address. I hated to put that in, because it's confusing, but I already have plenty of Nigerian investment opportunities to consider over the weekend.
Hey man,It's heating up here in The Bay Area, we're up to nearly 80 degrees! We almost had some humidity, too. Jacking up the ol' gas oven to 450 degrees didn't really appeal to me, so I started a fire in the que pit.
Pieced me out a whole natural chicken and squeezed fresh lemon juice over all for 30 minutes.
Rubbed liberally with Survival Spice, at least MY pieces. The chillins ain't so hip to 'flavor'. Mama said she do the spice, we're in.It don't take long to grill to barely done. I'd mention the fresh green salad we had, but who cares? It's all about the spice and the meat.
The taste and aroma is on the sweet peppery side with some back love that I'm not bright enough to pinch. Then, a moment afterwards it cleanly finishes with some warmness. The cool part was the citrus, it exploded what was there. Citrus is a dimension multiplier, so says I. I believe that's why I sent it to you, it was the citrus that bent it over in to a new direction. Sure you could have used olive oil, bacon fat or canola oil (shudder).
Citrus delivers the Survival Spice like a freight train. Course the raw mesquite smoking chips do help some.
Nice Thursday evening with next to no clean-up.
Now it's time for a nap.
"Revered master of the coals!" HA! That sounds very brimstoney. But who cares...the chicken looks outta this world!
Julie, it was SO good. Even the two little scraggly pieces the next day.
I just sent Pragmatic tonights dinner, before it enters the oven. I think he should post that as well. Heh, it's amazing smelling.
Biggles
Man, it's looking good already, too.
Mmmmm. Looks delish.