Monday, July 18, 2011

The Night Before

Gonna make me some chicken tomorrow....

Nice use of English...huh?

Anyway, we have some family that is down for the week, and I wanted to cook a little. First thought was that I would smoke a nice Pork Butt...then I thought, "Hey, you just made a pork butt last week..."

So my attention turned to something else. How about something that I just might not screw up...and that is some chicken thighs. I am going to try and do them low and slow tomorrow. Normally I have leaned to making thighs on indirect heat on the Weber Kettle... gonna try the smoker tomorrow for about 5 hours, and get some nice smoke on them...

First thing to do is to trim all of the fat and excess skin off the the thighs...



Yup, I paid for all of that...nice. I am in the wrong business.

Then come the easiest part of the prep work. Put the trimmed thighs in a 2 gallon zip/lock bag.



(Don't worry about the apple juice, that will get used tomorrow).

The next step is almost as easy.....empty a bottle of Italian Dressing into the bag. Seal, and refrigerate over night....



See how easy this is so far. It is amazing how some people are impressed by all of this. Anyway, nothing left to do but sick back and wait for tomorrow.