| Nov022008 | Winner Winner, Chicken Dinner |
I bought a cast iron frying pan off Amazon recently. It came pre-seasoned and all for less than twenty bucks. The damn thing also weighs a ton.
In an unrelated incident, when Lachlan was visiting he had brought a six pack of beer and we had drunk five of the six before he left.
And so, where some might see two unrelated events, I see providence. It was finally time for me to make some beer can chicken.
If you don’t know what “beer can chicken” is: it’s a BBQ chicken where you slowly cook it with a beer can up it’s ass. The intention is that the beer will gradually boil off and keep the chicken super moist whilst cooking.
So this was my first time ever roasting a bird but it was pretty darn easy. Basically you clean the chicken and rub it with spices (I had rosemary, thyme, lime zest and chili flakes lying around) and then you stand it up on this beer can and cook for two hours.
My oven is not quite as pressurized as a BBQ so I probably missed out on some extra flavor but I still think it came out fantastic. I was super proud of myself. I also threw in some potatoes and squash to roast alongside and suck up the beer and chicken juice.
Going forward, I would tweak a few things:
- Find a way to keep the legs and wings more moist.
- Find three other people to eat this damn chicken.
- Learn how to carve a chicken.
- More awesome spices.
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