• 1upmanship

    From JIM WELLER@1:123/140 to NANCY BACKUS on Sunday, December 09, 2018 22:44:00

    Quoting Nancy Backus to Jim Weller <=-

    "Flavor Arms Race." [...] is delicious, but maybe we're at
    risk of losing sight of the chicken in the process."

    I'm all for having things not too heavily flavored... let the
    natural flavor come through... that said, there is a place for
    having something sorta over the top on occasion

    Supermarket battery chicken slaughtered at 5 to 8 weeks of age lack
    flavour and need all the help they can get but truly free range
    birds allowed to grow and mature for 4 to 8 months are awesome and
    don't need anything but perhaps salt. One of Roslind's sisters is a
    working cattle rancher who raises a few dozen chickens and turkeys
    on the side for family and friends. By Thanksgiving her spring
    chickens weigh about 8-9 pounds, have darker meat, are quite fatty
    and are very flavourful.

    MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06

    Title: Roasted Chicken with Meyer Lemon
    Categories: Chicken, Fruit, Chilies, Garlic. Herbs
    Yield: 4 Servings

    8 Chicken thighs, no skin
    2 md Onions; quartered
    2 Meyer Lemons
    5 Garlic cloves; pressed
    1 tb Dried rosemary
    1 ts Cayenne pepper or more
    Salt and pepper

    Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Buy pre-skinned and boned chicken
    thighs. Wash them and dry them. Drizzle a bit of olive oil in a
    roasting pan. Place the chicken in the pan. Cover with the onions
    and then drizzle on the juice from the Meyer Lemons. Throw in the
    lemons too. Nestle the garlic cloves in around the chicken.
    Sprinkle the whole thing with dried rosemary, cayenne pepper and
    salt and pepper.

    Roast for 45 minutes, about 15 minutes before the chicken is
    finished cooking, baste it with the juices.

    Serve with the juices over the chicken, onions and garlic cloves.
    The garlic will be really sweet from the roasting process. Do not
    discard them.

    Recipe By: Risa Golding, Posted to Chile-Heads

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    Cheers

    Jim


    ... Blackened chicken: (1) put chicken in oven (2) go check Facebook.

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