12/02/10 - 21:22
It’s funny how you wake up some days and the day goes totally differently than you expected. I visited the Barbecue Bible message board just after getting up. I found a post there by a gentleman who’s handle is SCBBQBIll, who’d made fried chicken on his Weber Kettle. I was skeptical when I saw the post title, but intrigued as well. Up until that point, I thought the only way to get crispy skin was to deep fry the chicken. I had seen a recipe on the America’s Test Kitchen TV show for making deep fried chicken in a Dutch Oven. It was actually on my short list of things To Do. Reading the post I saw the original recipe came from the Virtual Weber Bullet web site, which was a good sign. Best yet the recipe was simple, You prep the chicken just as you would to fry it. Next thing I knew it was off to the supermarket to get chicken and batter. I couldn’t wait.
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07/30/10 - 20:35
Around the 4th of July weekend I went from never having done duck on the grill (or anywhere else for that matter) to making it three times in under a week. I’ve already described the duck breast on the grill in the blog
JUST DUCKY- PT 1. This blog entry will describe making a duck on the rotisserie. There were a couple issues I had to deal with, one was known ahead of time and the other had to be dealt with on the fly, but overall things went well and a delicious duck was the result.
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07/21/10 - 19:00
Duck on the grill is something I’ve wanted to do for a long time, but two things kept me from it: fear of the unknown and availability. I found not just one source but two sources for duck and I finally got around to making not once, but three times. While the end results were outstanding it wasn’t a totally smooth ride.
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06/04/10 - 17:12
My meal on Saturday, as described in the previous blog entry
MEMORABLE MEMORIAL DAY - PART 1 was not soon to be topped and frankly I wasn’t going to try. I just wanted to grill up something good for Monday and the
BBQ CHICKEN WINGS I made filled the bill nicely. The recipe came from Cooks Illustrated Summer Grilling 2009 and while I’d made wings in a similar fashion form some other cookbooks, there were three differences. First this recipe gave you 4 different and very interesting BBQ sauces to choose from. Second: This recipe added smoke and the method America’s Test Kitchen recommended had already proven it’s worth for Saturdays
SMOKEHOUSE BURGERS. Lastly I was going to try a new recipe for potatoes called
GRILLED NEW POTATOES WITH A RED PEPPER CRUST looked really tasty.
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04/16/10 - 12:15
I discovered not one, but two, new Weber cookbooks that had just been published this month quite by accident. I was on Amazon.com pre-ordering Steven Raichlen’s first new cookbook in 4 years called Planet Barbecue and I discovered these two new books written by Jamie Purviance. Let me just add as a sidebar here that Amazon makes it far too easy to get yourself in trouble. You go looking for one thing and they show you a dozen more you didn’t know you needed to have. If that is not bad enough: Then they put together a bundle where they save you money on two or three of the books purchased together. Here they had the Chicken& Sides which retails for $14.95 selling for $10.17. For $19.95 I got the Chicken and Steak books and free shipping. I ddin’t stand a chance and I didn’t even mention how easy one-click made things.
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