Tonight's Menu
- grilled chicken thighs
- whole-wheat couscous w/green onions
- green salad bar
- King cake!
- hurricanes!
I told myself I was going to wait until daylight saving time (only a week and a half away now!) to start grilling every damn thing but, well, I lied. To myself. It happens. It was sunny and in the low 80s today, people -- how am I supposed to resist grilling under those conditions?! I ask you.
So yeah, I grilled some chicken thighs. They were bone-in, skin on and I just sprinkled them on both sides with some garlic pepper and Jane's Krazy Salt. I grilled them skin-side-down over medium-high heat until the skin was nice and golden brown with sexy grill marks, then I flipped them skin-side up for a few minutes, then I moved them to an unlit burner (with the other two burners turned up to high heat) and left them alone for a good 45 minutes. So, so yummy! I swear, grilled chicken thighs make EVERYTHING better (even having two members of the family on antibiotics at the same time, oy).
The couscous was packaged. I just stirred in some sliced green onions before serving. Easy!
The salad bar tonight was green leaf lettuce, sliced carrots from the garden, and more sliced green onions.
The King cake was purchased at my local supermarket bakery this morning. I'm guessing not every grocery store in the nation rolls out the King cakes on Fat Tuesday. Gotta love the South, y'all! My supermarket's version of a King cake is really just a big cinnamon roll type thing with powdered sugar icing and colored sprinkles. It's SO good, though. I'm going to have more for breakfast tomorrow with my coffee!
I improvised the hurricanes. They are NOT traditional -- I was just working with what I had. But for what it's worth:
6 oz. pineapple juice
6 oz. orange juice
1 oz. grenadine
2 oz. silver rum
2 oz. dark rum
2 oz. spiced rum (Bacardi 151 is traditional, but I didn't have any)
Shake all ingredients together and serve over crushed ice in hurricane glasses with straws. Makes about 2 or 3 depending on how big your glasses are and how much ice you use.
Woo! I am stuffed. Fat Tuesday, indeed!
2 comments:
we had pancakes and sausage and king cake (only ours was just like a normal cake with purple icing...)
I only wish we had a store. We made our own damn King Cake! But, it's easy! Really! A monkey could do it! Love your site.
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