Gameday menu!

Granson and I back early this morning from fishing at coast place sooooo....
Fresh speckled trout fillets fried in peanut oil with some tater tots and pawpaws special jalapeño onion and crab hush puppies
Just cracked open an ice cold Shiner bock...life is good...salut caballeros
Puro Cowboy
 
Not answering for JB but he said rotisserie chicken salad so I am assuming he bought a rotisserie chicken to do that. I usually do that but I did find a way to do rotisserie chicken in the oven.

Dry brine a whole chicken in the fridge for 12-24 hours and put some of the kosher salt under the skin all over it. Put a rack on a sheet pan and the chicken on that. Let the chicken sit out at least 45 minutes and put it in a 325 degree oven. That is low for chicken to crisp the skin but the idea is a lower and slow cook to get the internal temp up to 200, about 2 hours. The texture and fall apart of the chicken is just like rotisserie chicken and it's still juicy.

Drain all of the juice form the sheet pan and let that cool to use on that dish or to do some veggies in. Chicken fat, aka schmalz, is mother's milk.

Now comes the kicker. Crank the oven up to 450, let it cool enough to handle on a cutting board and take all of the skin off. Put the skin, side up, back on the sheet pan and put into the oven to crisp up and keep an eye on it. That skin is one of the best things I've ever tasted and you can eat it as is or crumble it up like chicken chicharrons to put on the white meat.

My odd fact about rotisserie chicken is that I have never eaten one as is. Not ones, I buy them or fix them to take apart and fix something else like salad, soup, enchiladas, tacos or casserole.
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Making a Mexican style Shrimp Cocktail, small and medium shrimp mixed with some cocktail sauce, salsa, some pico de gallo to make it extra chunky, lots of diced avocado and a couple good squeezes of lime. Plenty of tortilla chips and some Modelo Especial to wash it down.
That's good stuff, I like mine with a few raw oysters in it. Campechana!
 
I'm drinking wine today, and not from a box. Fancy like!!!!
What the heck is wrong with a box? lol!!

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not bad if you are in a hurry...
 
That's good stuff, I like mine with a few raw oysters in it. Campechana!
Campechana, exactly! I do like a few raw oysters and some crab in it to gussy it up, but just went basic today. One of my favorite lunches, especially during the summer.
 
Campechana, exactly! I do like a few raw oysters and some crab in it to gussy it up, but just went basic today. One of my favorite lunches, especially during the summer.
Lol!! I get a kick out that word! My name is Gus, so I always Gussy it up....Salud!
 
Nothing during the game because no game. I tuned is and thought 'no, I'll just wait and see these guys at Home Depot next week.

Preseason games do not deserve my culinary skills put to the test, that is reserved for the starters, who barely deserved it last year. I told myself "I am cooking for the injured".

However, this evening I will be having Lobster Cream pasta, which is lobster (guess I already gave that away) butter, garlic slivers, parmesan, romano and cream (ditto on the give away) and penne. The secret, and I guess I can trust you to tell no one else, is chopping half the tail up in small pieces to become part of the sauce and then larger pieces and I must say this flavor is one of the most magical ones I've ever cooked. I can't wait to taste it and am sad when the last bite is gone, it is probably the only 10 I make.

And it is about a game too as I will be kicking off football season with "Remember the Titans" followed by many football movies in the next 10 days.

Salud and here's looking at you, kids.
 
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