Winner, Winner...

...Chicken Dinner!

 

From last weekend there was this.  

 

 

After Group I purchased a Family Pak of nine handsome chicken thighs for $6.14. Set aside four and froze the rest. 

 

Anoint your thighs with fresh-cracked sea salt and place them skin-side down in a covered frying pan. Cold. Turn the gas on high for a few minutes and reduce the heat to medium, medium low; depending. 

 

Meanwhile, par boil al dente the last of your new potatoes (an import from our friendly neighbors to the north). Rinse in cold water, drain, and toss in EVO. Reserve the EVO in the bowl. Preheat oven to 400F. 

 

Cut some garden asparagus into bite size lengths and toss in the reserved EVO. Add cracked pepper and sea salt. (Like Lazarus my garden spargel rose to life). 

 

At 15 minutes check the chicken, rotate 90 degrees (do not flip) and cover. If you peek, the skin will be rendering all of the delicious chicken fat and beginning to brown. 

 

At the thirty minute mark flip your chicken skin side up. It will be obnoxiously golden crispy. Remove the lid and continue to cook on the stove top on low. 

 

Put your taters cut side up on a rack in the oven and bake for ten minutes. Add the spargel after ten minutes. Broil if necessary. (I used convection bake and finished with a few minutes of broil).

We installed a new GE Profile gas range this year and it is exquisite. The stove top has five burners and a flattop. There are two ovens - standard with a broiler and the second a combo convection, air fryer, broiler. 

 

An aftermarket air fryer pan with a grate is a terrific. It’s as large as the oven. Line it with parchment paper for easy clean-up and you’re good to go. 

 

If I’m indoors I cook with gas. Disagree, Yau’ll have to pry my kitchen range from my cold dead fingers. 

 

Outdoors, real men cook with fire…..