Random Notes on Things, Mostly Food
Sep. 9th, 2015 06:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chuckro- We went out to Farmingdale this past weekend, and then ARR started at his new school on Tuesday. I feel like Jethrien covered most of the details. His first day went well—he tried to drag me there early, and then didn’t want to leave, then took a mega-nap when we got home.
- ARR: “I want to put on my helmet and ride my scooter and fall off my scooter and then get up and get back on my scooter.” Which is pretty much exactly what he did.
- McDonald’s (which ARR insists we go to following a haircut) has a new “buttermilk fried chicken” sandwich. It tastes like they reverse-engineered Chick-fil-a; which is to say it’s pretty good and means that you can enjoy that sort of thing without the side of bigotry.
- I smoked sweet onions (Coat in oil, salt and pepper, then ~2 hours with applewood smoke) with came out nicely and would probably be a good way to fill out the smoker when I was doing something else.
- I also did smoked pulled chicken (chicken thighs that I kept in a foil pan so they’d slow-cook in their own juices and not dry out, ~3 hours at 250 with applewood), but decided it’s not so much better than using my cast-iron to be worth the extra time and the hassle. Also, I think I like chicken better with the hickory smoke; the apple is a little too subtle, especially for dark meat.
- ARR: “I want to put on my helmet and ride my scooter and fall off my scooter and then get up and get back on my scooter.” Which is pretty much exactly what he did.
- McDonald’s (which ARR insists we go to following a haircut) has a new “buttermilk fried chicken” sandwich. It tastes like they reverse-engineered Chick-fil-a; which is to say it’s pretty good and means that you can enjoy that sort of thing without the side of bigotry.
- I smoked sweet onions (Coat in oil, salt and pepper, then ~2 hours with applewood smoke) with came out nicely and would probably be a good way to fill out the smoker when I was doing something else.
- I also did smoked pulled chicken (chicken thighs that I kept in a foil pan so they’d slow-cook in their own juices and not dry out, ~3 hours at 250 with applewood), but decided it’s not so much better than using my cast-iron to be worth the extra time and the hassle. Also, I think I like chicken better with the hickory smoke; the apple is a little too subtle, especially for dark meat.
