It holds the moisture in and still allows the skin to crisp. The chicken cooked very evenly.
It also keeps the juices from getting into the oven.
A good dutch oven will do the same thing though and is easier to work with.
The chicken was amazing!
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It also keeps the juices from getting into the oven.
A good dutch oven will do the same thing though and is easier to work with.
The chicken was amazing!
The two I picked up are 9.99 silicone love the 2 muffin pans x large I bought actually get kick figuring this stuff out
Always been fried in my book James pulled out the fryer so we could last time I used a cast iron skillet burned my arm on the oil, guess the kid wanted me safe
Cap, you've learned something I've been trying to teach Dh for years. My mother had a lot of clay where she lived in KY. She too added sand to it, and it made a good growing medium. Here in Fl, we have quite a bit of naturally occurring sand in our soil. With few exceptions, it's not just sand. Most thing grow well in it. A few things (like blueberries) require a bit of adjustment on the pH, but not many crops do, and it's easy to adjust.
The town Dh comes from is a small town, mostly a farming community. There are miles and miles of either corn, or soy. I don't think they grow a crop every so often, to plow back under, and replenish their soil. Dh seems to think that soil is to look more like potting soil, if anything is going to grow in it. He labors needlessly to "build up" the poor soil. He adds commercial fertilizer too, which I don't like.
Normally, I make him give me a section of the garden for me to plant things I want to grow. I don't go nuts trying to enrich the soil, but I do toss the crap on the garden every so often when I clean my coops. I don't use any commercial fertilizer. After all these years, he still has trouble figuring out why I can plant the same things as he does, and my crops do better than his. I always plant watermelons too.
Since we moved here, he's been dragging his feet about getting our garden in. He's dreading having to go to all the trouble of building up the soil on his side of the garden, and putting in all the work to get it up, and going. I reminded him of how he doesn't need to do all that, but he's lapsed back into it having to look like potting soil.
The town Dh comes from is a small town, mostly a farming community. There are miles and miles of either corn, or soy. I don't think they grow a crop every so often, to plow back under, and replenish their soil. Dh seems to think that soil is to look more like potting soil, if anything is going to grow in it. He labors needlessly to "build up" the poor soil. He adds commercial fertilizer too, which I don't like.
Normally, I make him give me a section of the garden for me to plant things I want to grow. I don't go nuts trying to enrich the soil, but I do toss the crap on the garden every so often when I clean my coops. I don't use any commercial fertilizer. After all these years, he still has trouble figuring out why I can plant the same things as he does, and my crops do better than his. I always plant watermelons too.
Since we moved here, he's been dragging his feet about getting our garden in. He's dreading having to go to all the trouble of building up the soil on his side of the garden, and putting in all the work to get it up, and going. I reminded him of how he doesn't need to do all that, but he's lapsed back into it having to look like potting soil.
I have always added stuff to the soil, peat is good with sand to hold water. I am going with composted cow manure because i can get my 8' pickup bed filled for $40. I still have a bit left from last year. I started gardening as a kid, with my Dad. He always added a lot of manure. And he liked Miracle Grow.
Here is what i found hibernating in the manure today...
Male blue tailed skink. They are very fast when its warm, but it was in the 50s today so i caught him to get a picture.
We have those little blue tailed skinks everywhere. Our deck door is an Amish creation, meaning it doesn't fit the door opening very well and is on the replacement list. In the mean time it has a 1 inch gap at the bottom and it isn't unusual to have a skink wander in. I usually find them before the cats do and shush them back outside although I did find one with a freshly lost tail.
I usually find them nesting in the rocks that line my flowerbeds. The females are protective mothers and I usually find them curled around their clutch of little bean sized eggs. Had one nesting under a concrete block that edged our fire pit. Wouldn't let anyone light a fire there until her babies had hatched.
I usually find them nesting in the rocks that line my flowerbeds. The females are protective mothers and I usually find them curled around their clutch of little bean sized eggs. Had one nesting under a concrete block that edged our fire pit. Wouldn't let anyone light a fire there until her babies had hatched.
I am happy full... I was fed 2 servings of homemade biscuits and sausage gravy with bacon.... then salad and bacon and roast with wine...
wheelbarrow me home! !! I am DONE HAPPY!!!
wheelbarrow me home! !! I am DONE HAPPY!!!
love biscuits and gravy but usually sausage here BF is a huge fan when I make it
No Clue we just got ally appliances back in place. So I can cook and do laundry.
The kitchen will get finished when dh is better.
The kitchen will get finished when dh is better.
Ron your chicken looks amazing!
Food sounds wonderful everyone.
We have skinks here also and lizzards. They love my porch and that's nice. They eat all the n
Bugs!
Food sounds wonderful everyone.
We have skinks here also and lizzards. They love my porch and that's nice. They eat all the n
Bugs!
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