Wednesday - August 03, 2011

Next Task

Oh joy, I’m Mr. Housework today. In between projects; I’ve got 2 coats of Minwax stain on those oak doors and they’re looking great. As much as I want to rush things, I’m going to wait until tomorrow to put the polyurethane on. Let the stain dry a full day, even though it’s warm enough in the garage that 5 minutes after a heavy rub on of stain there’s hardly anything left to wipe off. But better safe than sorry. I’m also going wireless with the house. Somehow we’ve amassed 4 devices that are WiFi capable, so it’s high time I joined the 21st century. I got a really nice dual band high speed router for a great price, which should be delivered by the weekend. My brother assures me set-up is a breeze, and online reviews say it’s all PHD these days (Push Here, Dummy). Fingers crossed.

I love hot wings, but there isn’t much meat to eat on them. So I made hot wings with chicken thighs. I love grilled chicken, and the condo park does have a really nice Jenn-Air BBQ grill down by the pool ... half a mile away. A bit far to walk with a tray of chicken, and it’s not too much fun standing by the grill when it’s 100° F outside. So I figured I could grill in the oven. Put a cooling rack over a baking sheet pan, turn up the heat, and away you go! Right? Mostly. The thing about grilling, and the reason you do it outside, is all the smoke it creates. So it was another case of me opening all the windows and doors suddenly, getting out the window fan, and doing my best to clear the air in the apartment and keep the smoke alarm from going off. Which rather obviated all that nice air conditioning.

I put the thighs on the rack upside down, and gave the bottoms a quick basting of Tabasco and Sriracha sauce and into the 450 oven they went. 20 minutes later I flipped them and coated the skin side the same. 20 minutes after that I turned off the oven, pulled out the tray, and coated each thigh with Sweet Baby Ray’s Buffalo Chicken Marinade. I could have made my own sauce easily, but I was feeling lazy. Ray’s is good, and it was on sale for half off. Back into the cooling oven for another 15 minutes to dry the sauce out a bit, and I had nicely cooked thighs with crispy skin and a good hot but not crazy hot sauce. Most of the hot pepper heat cooks off, just leaving flavor behind.

The other thing about grilling chicken outside is that it spatters. A lot.

So on my honey-dew list for today, after taking out the garbage and the several kinds of recycling, is cleaning the oven. And then scrubbing that baking sheet clean. But it was worth it!

Posted by Drew458     on 08/03/2011 at 02:07 PM   
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