Chicken thigh recipes, tips, tricks, and techniques for home cooks
I love barbecued chicken. I love chicken thighs. Therefore it follows that I love barbecued chicken thighs, right? Well, obviously I do because there are already a few different barbecued chicken thigh recipes on this site. This one is different. I mean it’s not a lot different. It’s still chicken […]
This dish is essentially a highly simplified riff on char siu, the amazing Cantonese barbecue tradition. Whereas char siu preparations often include soy, hoisin, and other additions, here you’ll only use salt, five-spice powder, and an long rest in the refrigerator for most of the heavy lifting, with just a […]
Planning ahead for the socially distanced holiday weekend? Here’re a few easy and tasty grilled chicken thigh recipes that can please an appropriately small, socially distanced, responsibly masked crowd. Or just you. Whatever you want. Smoked Chicken With Alabama Style White BBQ Sauce Jerk Chicken Thighs Simple Barbecued Chicken Peruvian […]
These chicken skewers are an attempt to reproduce the flavor and texture of the sort of chicken I ordered about once a week from one of DC’s myriad kebab shops. A couple skewers of chicken piled atop rice with a piece of flatbread and a little cup of the inevitable […]
The 4th of July in my hometown is more than quick patriotic nod to our country’s founding fathers. In that little midwestern town it’s homecoming and founder’s day and independence day all rolled into one. The high School reunions are all scheduled for that week, half the town is in […]
Today is a day that everyone in the states thinks is a big holiday in Mexico, but isn’t really. Mostly we think that because lots of companies want to sell us tequila and corn chips and avocados and more tequila. Regardless of that, it’s also Tuesday, and a quarantimes Tuesday […]
Peruvian style chicken, or Pollo a la Brasa, is a wonder of simple flavors. Traditionally it’s rotisserie grilled over charcoal, and you can find prepared that way it in chicken joints all over the east and west coasts of the US. Once you’ve had it, particularly if you’ve somehow stumbled […]