Our friend, the chicken. What a great pallet to build flavors on. Enough fat to carry flavors deep into the meat, then they melt away, leaving you with a lean, healthy meal.
This was so easy. Take a whole chicken, tuck the wing tips under the wings, cut out the backbone with a pair of poultry shears or a sharp knife, and press to lay it flat. Drizzle with olive oil, kosher salt, and some lemon juice, then rub generously with Survival Spice™ on all sides. I cooked this indirectly on the gas grill with some pecan chips, but you can easily just put it on a sheet pan in a 375º oven.
This took about 45 minutes, then I let it rest for 5 minutes or so. Man, it was good. Crispy skin, and nothing but flavorful, juicy meat underneath. A crusty baguette and some grilled asparagus finished it off.
Did I mention it was easy?
I am going to stalk you and show up conveniently ever single night at dinner time.
Buahahahahahahahahaaaaaa!
That looks kinda tough and time consuming, how easy was it? Not sure if I could pull it off.
Doing a large ham steak for dinner tonight. Heat & Serve, now that's easy.
I need an outdoor area to grill, mines ain't water proof, not at all.
Biggles
Biggles, I know you're no stranger to the wonders of chicken meets Survival Spice meets grill, brother!
Too bad you couldn't bump out an small overhang off of the front of the garage or something, it wouldn't take much. Biggles without a grill in winter is like telling Phil Mickelson that he can only use his driver on weekdays. That's just wrong...
Shelleigh, sounds like y'all do just fine, but I'd love to grill it up with you one of these days.
Did y'all know that Scott is now World Famous :)
Yeah, you'd think. The garage is a 20x20 place that's detached and on the back of the property. This isn't so bad, yet it is. I haven't the money to put in the kitchen I have 'plans' for. The garage has power, natural gas, it's own water heater and a sewer line. Not to mention phone and high speed internet.
Ya know what I need. Is an outdoor semi-walled gazebo thingy with a built in brick BBQ with a chimney. This way I could cook in the pouring rain and not get smoked out. Maybe 40k would do it, sigh. Oh, AND a fireplace to keep me warm, can't forget that.
Biggles
Thanks, Diana! We just made our first shipment to Canada, and boy are my 'customs forms filling out arms' tired.
Biggles- Yeah, outoor kitchens are way expensive, even if you do a lot of it yourself. During the winter, I just have a gas grill on the back porch I throw wood chips into. My thought for you was that maybe you could just build a small shed roof and lag it into the garage, with a few front supports. Just big enough for the essentials.
I'd like to build an awning off the garage, down the driveway, that matches the peak of the roof on the garage. I don't think it would cost too darned much. But we need windows before fun, man do we need windows.
Biggles
Scott ... I cooked this tonight. Five stars my friend! Absolutely yummy! The chicken was so moist and sweet and tender.
Cool, Diana! Did you cook it indoors?
In the oven ... my grill is covered in snow :)
I grilled outside all winter when I lived in the Midwest, Diana. But I'm certifiably insane, of course.
Mine's a turkish grill ... it gets hard to find and dig out.