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Sanny

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  1. Re: This Noob Suggests.....

    One of the requirements of noobyism is to post ad naueum :D
    I was new here once. Did you think I posted to the point of nausea? I thought you liked my posts. :smt022

    Deej likes me. You go eat worms. :smt016

    TWharton, you cook and post and do whatever you want. Don't let the killjoys step on your buzz. Hrumph.

  2. Well with my job I'm on the road a lot and eat at least 6oz of jerky a day. It's healthy and way better than fast food. ...
    Careful. Not to put a hitch in yer giddyup, but They (you know, Those People) say jerky has lotta cholesterol, and salt. Can make for health troubles. Probably if you have control of the seasoning it helps.

    Just don't wanna lose our cruzmisl to something ugly. :)

  3. Sanny' date=' when I first looked at your picture I thought you were giving that bird boobs! :smt021[/quote']Johnnyboy, trust me when I tell you that I know where breasts go, and I'd have put them in the right place - not stickin out of the top of a neck cavity!! I mean, wonderbra is one thing, but that chicken would suffocate with breasts up that high! ;)
  4. FM, it was at your recommendation that I went with a smaller deflector. :) And I checked around the outside of the cooker when it was going, and it was not any warmer at the level of the smaller deflector than it was elsewhere. Good call.

    Good advice re: pan below, and chick on the rack. Don't know why that set up didn't cross my mind - it's how I do the pork butts. :::shrug::: That would take care of the stewed chicken part. Gotta say, though, it tasted nice. And my neighbor (out in the yard to take out his trash) said "whatever that is, it smells great."

    hehe

  5. I haven't brined, no. I didn't feel like taking the time with this one. Came home from work and wanted to roast the birdy before the rains and cold come tomorrow. Maybe I'd brine a different time. I don't usually think that far ahead.

    If I did this again - and I likely will - I'd prop the chicken up higher, or use a bigger pan so the bird didn't sit in the juices. By sitting in the juice, it's more stewed than roasted at the bottom half of the bird.

    In Cooks Illustrated this issue (my first time reading it), there was a discussion of brining a pork loin. The article came out with a shrug. Go ahead, but not necessary the way they seasoned and cooked the roast. Not that a pork loin is a chicken, but it was interesting.

  6. Here's the final product.

    DSCF0804.jpg

    I just cut it in half and gave half to my neighbor. Too much for just me.

    Observations: Skin is crispy and delicious, except where it was below the level of the dutch oven. That's where the liquid gathered, so skin is rubbery there. Lots of grease rendered out! Good the pan was under it, or the fire company would have been there, for sure. Can you imagine all that grease on the coals? Horrors.

    I gnawed on a leg, and it could use salt. I salted the herb/butter mix, and put it under the skin, but that was mostly on back and breast, not on legs. I should have salted the outside of it, too - at least the legs and wings. Or else made sure I got butter/herb mixture under that skin, too. The addition of a pinch of pepper flakes (italian pizza shop variety, but home grown) was a good touch. Adds zip to the fresh oregano, thyme, tarragon, garlic mixture.

    There's a faintly sweet taste from the apple and oranges, which goes well with the light cherry smoke. I threw a small handful of cherry chips on the edges of the fire when it got going.

    All in all, a good experiment, and I would try it again, with modifications.

    :smt061

  7. That IS a pic, silly!! That lumpy thing at the bottom of the post is a pic o chick!! Take another pill and try again. :)

    That's an apple in the cavity. Dentist says apples don't cause cavities, but maybe he's wrong...

  8. I'm trying something gnu today. I have a chicken with a modified mad max preparation (thanks, Naked Whiz). I put an apple, peeled orange, onion in it, and chopped herbs, mixed with salt and pepper, and stuffed some of those in, and mixed some of the herbs/salt with butter, and squished that under the skin.

    Set up is indirect. I bought a 14 inch round griddle from Bayou Classic, and have that as a deflector. Smaller than the OEM portland deflector, which is prolly better for my size 5. More space around the edges.

    Chick is squatting on a pop can (white whine in the can) and in a small Lodge cast iron dutch oven.

    :)DSCF0803.jpg

  9. Re: New look for Green 033

    Now ain't that just a dainty picture that you want to have associated with food preparation?

    I know, I know... but for lack of a better word... this is what it looked like:

    mangesu8.jpg

    :shock:

    Maybe hang a bell around its neck and a sign that says "unclean." Looks kinda contagious.
  10. Re: You quack me up!

    Sanny you are too funny! Thanks for the laugh tonight, it was appreciated.

    We once told all the kids (now in college) about telling lies blah blah blah and to see you posting it on the forum is great. John :oops:

    :) Don't lie to your kids, either. hehehe :smt059
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