No, not cigarettes — yuck! I recently got a smoker for my birthday, and put it to good use today on a chicken:
Yes, he kind of looks like R2D2
This is my new charcoal smoker/grill. As you can see its a Brinkmann “Smoke N Grill.” There’s a tray in the bottom that you put the charcoal and a few wood pieces in. Then there’s a water pan, and a grill grate, and then at the top is a second grill grate.
Okay, it wasn’t really a fancy dinner party.. We had some friends over and made dinner for them. We decided to make Italian, and we don’t have too many Italian recipes so we could try something new. We came up with spinach-artichoke dip as the appetizer, fettuccine alfredo with grilled chicken, and roasted asparagus on the side. Hit “MORE” for the recipes…
I cooked this chicken last week, and it just turned out so pretty that I had to take a picture of it:
I saw a recipe similar to this in my pretty “Barbeque” cookbook, but I didn’t have most of those ingredients, so I made up my own.
I marinated the chicken in some “Southwest” flavor marinade, and then grilled it on my grill pan. The fruit salsa is a green apple, an orange, some canned pineapple, a tomato, and a little bit of Apricot-Pineapple jam melted and stirred in.
It was really good! It was light, tasty, and pretty healthy.
I took this picture with my new camera too!
Just the other day, we had the usual “we’ve got nothing to eat” feeling when trying to figure out what to make for dinner. But this time, we really had nothing to eat! We needed to go to the store badly: in our freezer, we had hotdogs, bacon, and two chicken breasts. I suggested bacon-wrapped chicken, and my wife went looking for a recipe. She found a good one, and this was our dinner:
The recipe is from Allrecipes.com: Spinach stuffed chicken breast
Did you know that Buffalo wings were invented at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, NY? I spent a couple of years in western New York and the food there is wonderful! Of course, I ate plenty of wings, and wings are a lot more popular there than they are here. All the pizza shops in western New York (Pontillo’s Pizza and La Nova Pizza especially) know how to cook some good wings and a “pizza and wings” combo is pretty much a standard order. Bars even have “wing night” where wings are $0.10/each. TEN CENTS A WING! Compare that to Wingers: 12 wings / $11 = $1.09 PER WING!!!
Naturally, I had to figure out how to make my own. Luckily, they’re pretty easy: cook the wings, then drench in sauce!
