Culinary Disasters

Try saying this recipe title 3 times fast actually I have decided to keep with Mike’s theme of using a lot of c words in a dish (click here to read the c word ingredient list).

Once again I am back to slackville.  The nice thing about Indiana is we have about ohh…2 weeks from when the leaves start to fall to when it gets so blasted freaking cold out that you don’t want to be out raking leaves so the last couple of weeks have been spent raking, cutting down flowers, transplanting stuff, and all that fun garden getting ready for snow to come stuff.  Now it is so cold outside I feel like frozen death when I walk outside so back to the kitchen I go. 

Ohhh….and the find of the weekend was that my dad, brother, and I headed up to my favorite meat market to pick up a winter supply of meat.  Couple months ago when we were up there I asked the butcher about veal bones and he did not have them.  However, this time he came up to me and said that he had been putting them aside and if I wanted some he would box them up for me.  Once again my brother and dad had to shake their head because they are always amazed with what I manage to come back with (one time I got a pig’s head) so it almost a game of what weird thing will Jeff get this trip.  So all weekend my house smelled like stock making and I still have 21 lbs of bones to go (well 15 after tonight since I am going to make some white veal stock tonight).

For this marinade you will need:

• 1 whole chicken cut up
• 1/2 cup orange juice
• 1/4 cup lemon juice
• 1/2 cup lime juice
• 1 TB paprika
• 2 cloves garlic diced
• 2 TB ground chili (I used ancho chili powder that can be found at any Mexican market)
• Healthy pinch of cayenne pepper
• Pinch of salt

Combine all ingredients and add the chicken.  Let it sit overnight.

I fired up the grill (thank you garage) but if you lack the grill then fire up your oven to 375 and cook for a good 30-45 minutes till the chicken is done.

If you feel guilty about wasting the marinade boil it for a good 5 minutes and you can use it as a sauce. Personally I did not lose any sleep over dumping the marinade.

p.s. The heat in this dish is going to come from the cayenne since most dried chili is actually very mild. However, as a rule of thumb long chili is mild, short chili is hot, and short round chili is evil.

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