Re: Sunday Dinner Feb 2

On 2/4/2025 7:24 AM, fos@sdf.org wrote:

On 2025-02-03, Jill McQuown <j_mcquown@comcast.net> wrote:

On 2/3/2025 1:46 PM, fos@sdf.org wrote:

 

we cooked a whole chicken in a covered roaster. i didn't want to,
she insisted. i don't recall ever cooking one like that. everything
except the breasts nearly fell off the bones. the skin was rubbery
which was fine with her since she doesn't eat it anyway. was
tasty but i wasn't fond of the texture, and i really enjoy
crispy browned skin which there was exactly none of. that was a
first and last. am going back to an open baking dish. i would
have used the rotisserie on the grill but i had already been out
in the snow long enough for the day.

 

I have to agree rubbery, mushy skin on baked/roasted chicken sucks.
Totally unappealing.

 yep. fortunately it slid off easily to be disposed of. sunday was
chicken day it appears. my son said he did a spatchcocked
chicken in his oven. he would of grilled it but the apartment
complex he's been living at banned grills last summer. monsters!
 

Monsters?  I know you're being facetious but there's a reason for it. They don't want their buildings to catch on fire.  It's a liability issue.
A long time ago I lived in an apartment complex with 2-story buildings. The ground level apartments had fenced patios.  The upstairs apartments had wooden balconies above the patios below.  I lived upstairs.  The man who lived below me had regular visitation with his three children, approximate ages 14, 12 and 10.  Their mother would drop them off before he got home from work.  He had a large charcoal grill on the patio.  One day the eldest boy decided to grill some chicken to surprise his dad for dinner.  I was sitting on my balcony after work, reading a book.  The kid poured charcoal lighter fluid all over the coals, lit them, went back inside and apparently forgot about it.  Flames were shooting up all over the place (right next to their wooden fence and underneath my wooden balcony.)  If I hadn't been home to pound on the door he could have set the entire building on fire.
Some friends lived in a different apartment complex.  That one, the buildings had some sort of vinyl siding.  You could clearly see where the vinyl siding was nearly melted because a previous renter had a grill on their balcony.  Again, it's a liability issue.

(BTW, are you related to songbird?  What's up with
not using capital letters?)

 not related to songbird lol. i don't why i do this. it became
habit here on Usenet in the late 90s.
 

lol okay.  I've been on Usenet since the 90's, too; never had a problem using capital letters.  The use of them was drilled into me in typing class in the 1970's.  It also makes things easier to read.

had it with hand mashed garlic potatoes topped with sour cream,
and some canned whole kernel corn.

 

The mashed potatoes sound good. :)

 my favorite! :)
 

That, and at least the rubbery chicken skin slid right off and the chicken was falling off the bone tender. :)
Jill