FIRE IN THE HOLE! Another Farkenaut entry.
I don't usually enter two throwdowns with one entry, but I think chicken is under-represented in this throwdown, and a whole chicken fits perfectly in the SS Farkenaut canons.
I started by making a brine with sea salt, turbinado sugar, and fresh sage, rosemary and thyme from my garden (sorry, no parsley :becky
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I brined my bird overnight. Then, I pulled it from the brine, stuffed it with chunks of lemon and onion, rubbed a LOT of minced garlic under the skin, and tied my bird up. It then sat in the fridge for a couple hours so the skin would dry enough to get nice and crispy when cooked.
Once I got the bird on the grill, I par cooked some red potato shrapnel, coated them with OO, and seasoned with salt, pepper and some dried oregano, also from my garden.
About fifteen minutes left on the cook, I poured the potatoes into the drip pan under the bird, along with some butter, and let the potatoes finish cooking in chicken fat.
The bird came out golden brown.
The potatoes were perfectly cooked, and quite tasty.
Right after I took the potato shot above, the power went out in my neighborhood. So, my money shot was lit by a combination of Coleman lantern, and the flash on the camera, in slow-sync mode. I kind of like how it turned out. Nice try noobians, but sabotaging the power grid didn't work.
I ate a little bit of ever part of the bird, and it was my best rotisserie chicken so far. This should put a nice hole in the hull of the Noobian. :heh:
Enjoy.