Tonight's Dinner - Chicken

[George K]

I made a rotisserie chicken in my air fryer tonight.

4 lb whole chicken. Butter under the skin of the breast. Rub with a mixture of salt, pepper, thyme, garlic powder, onion powder. The recipe calls for lemon in the cavity of the chicken, but I didn't have a lemon handy.

In the rotisserie for 50 minutes at 380 degrees.

Came out very good. Well-cooked, juicy and flavorful.

Baked potato and some frozen steam-in-the-bag brussel sprouts on the side.

[Jolly]

Looks mighty good.

Here at Jolly's Ptomaine Castle, it's been a busy day, so I put on some red beans and cooked the sugar out of them with some tasso, smoked sausage, celery, garlic, onion, sweet banana pepper, Tony's and a hair of McIllhenny's. Ladled that over some rice and chowed down, sopped the juice out of the bottom of the plate with a hunk of french bread and washed it down with a half-frozen can of Fanta orange (zero calorie, of course).

Ma didn't throw it out to the dogs, so I reckoned supper passed muster ...

[George K]

@Jolly said in Tonight's Dinner - Chicken:

Looks mighty good.

This is the 2nd time I've made rotisserie chicken in the air fryer. The last time I did it, I didn't have twine to truss the bird, so I threw it into the basket and let it go. It was good, but this was better. A lot better.

The recipe calls for melted butter under the skin, but that's a mess - so just used some pats of butter. It also calls for olive oil before you add the spice/herb rub. F Dat - I got butter out, and that's what I'm using.

My only complaint is that the Vortex rotisserie air fryer says you shouldn't use anything larger than a 4 lb chicken. Believe me, that's much more than enough for the Mrs. and me, but finding a "small" bird can ge difficult. I got this one via Amazon Fresh.

(Did anyone notice the horse-themed dish, by the way?)

[Jolly]

Do now. Kinda unique.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Jolly said in Tonight's Dinner - Chicken:

Looks mighty good.

Here at Jolly's Ptomaine Castle, it's been a busy day, so I put on some red beans and cooked the sugar out of them with some tasso, smoked sausage, celery, garlic, onion, sweet banana pepper, Tony's and a hair of McIllhenny's. Ladled that over some rice and chowed down, sopped the juice out of the bottom of the plate with a hunk of french bread and washed it down with a half-frozen can of Fanta orange (zero calorie, of course).

Ma didn't throw it out to the dogs, so I reckoned supper passed muster ...

That sounds awesome.

We had sort of similar here: Jambalaya. (Clearing out the freezer.)

• Shrimp, chicken, "impossible" sausage that was actually quite good.
• Onion, green pepper, celery, garlic, mucho tomatoes
• black pepper, red pepper flakes, W sauce, and a touch of Sriracha
• whatever white rice we had in the jar
• chives and oregano on top

Made enough to last 2-3 days.

[89th]

@Aqua-Letifer Om nom nom

[Mik]

All sounds good. We had a couple old friends over for dinner on the deck. Brined and BBQd pork rib chops, apple escarole salad and some delicious Georgia white corn on the cob.

Guest brought a blueberry cobbler.

[89th]

@George-K did you find most of the air fryer flavor goodness was on the skin? Or did the bird hold the moisture?

@Jolly @Mik I very much look forward to having more time to make dinner one day, right now with a one and four-year-old it is usually as scramble of some sort of pasta or chicken dinner. Sometimes panko shrimp, sometimes grilling hamburger and hot dogs… one day…

[George K]

@89th said in Tonight's Dinner - Chicken:

@George-K did you find most of the air fryer flavor goodness was on the skin? Or did the bird hold the moisture?

Because I used rotisserie mode, it was really juicy. I also slathered butter under the skin, just in case.

Link to video

This is the second time I made this, and it's a hit. The first time, I didn't have twine to truss the bird, so I threw it in the rotisserie basket. It came out good, but last night was better.

Here's what the basket looks like. However, when I used it, I put the whole bird in there. It might be a good way to make just breasts and thighs.

Link to video

[89th]

Awesome, thanks!

[Mik]

@89th said in Tonight's Dinner - Chicken:

@George-K did you find most of the air fryer flavor goodness was on the skin? Or did the bird hold the moisture?

@Jolly @Mik I very much look forward to having more time to make dinner one day, right now with a one and four-year-old it is usually as scramble of some sort of pasta or chicken dinner. Sometimes panko shrimp, sometimes grilling hamburger and hot dogs… one day…

Dinosaur chicken nuggets are your friend, 89th. They will eat them.

But seriously, they will eat what you eat. Your job is not to please them, it is to nourish them. I don't know if your kids are picky eaters, but if they are you do them no favors by indulging that. It hampers them socially.

My daughter's one time boyfriend was so picky. One time we invited him for dinner. We were going to have filet mignon and broccoli, which we knew he liked. He sat in our driveway and ate McDonalds before he came in. Hell, if his dad brought him a sandwich he didn't like during play rehearsals he'd make him go get something different. And the spineless wimp would do it.

Letting them choose not to eat what's offered is a good way to teach them why they want to eat it. Going hungry for a night won't hurt them, but they will remember it. Same principle applies when they get older and refuse to wear a coat going out. OK, but you're going to get cold. And they will. And they will then know why they should wear a coat.

Natural consequences teach the best lessons and reduce parent child fights. Your youngest may be too young for that right now, but the four-year-old isn't.

[Mik]

By the way, that dinner was the night I decided I was gonna run that mama's boy off.

[Catseye3]

@89th said in Tonight's Dinner - Chicken:

Om nom nom

+1

[89th]

@Mik said in Tonight's Dinner - Chicken:

@89th said in Tonight's Dinner - Chicken:

@George-K did you find most of the air fryer flavor goodness was on the skin? Or did the bird hold the moisture?

@Jolly @Mik I very much look forward to having more time to make dinner one day, right now with a one and four-year-old it is usually as scramble of some sort of pasta or chicken dinner. Sometimes panko shrimp, sometimes grilling hamburger and hot dogs… one day…

Dinosaur chicken nuggets are your friend, 89th. They will eat them.

But seriously, they will eat what you eat. Your job is not to please them, it is to nourish them. I don't know if your kids are picky eaters, but if they are you do them no favors by indulging that. It hampers them socially.

My daughter's one time boyfriend was so picky. One time we invited him for dinner. We were going to have filet mignon and broccoli, which we knew he liked. He sat in our driveway and ate McDonalds before he came in. Hell, if his dad brought him a sandwich he didn't like during play rehearsals he'd make him go get something different. And the spineless wimp would do it.

Letting them choose not to eat what's offered is a good way to teach them why they want to eat it. Going hungry for a night won't hurt them, but they will remember it. Same principle applies when they get older and refuse to wear a coat going out. OK, but you're going to get cold. And they will. And they will then know why they should wear a coat.

Natural consequences teach the best lessons and reduce parent child fights. Your youngest may be too young for that right now, but the four-year-old isn't.

Very good points. To be clear, they eat what we eat. It's just that what we eat is usually something somewhat easy/fast to make. Such as crock-pot pulled chicken tacos, or even last night had some chicken and rice (they ate all my rice).

My wife are mostly on the same page, although I'm a bit stricter. If my daughter wants milk in a pink cup instead of the white cup, she'll swap the cup out to avoid the fight. However, my daughter knows I won't do that... a cup is a cup.

Now on the flip side, we have been good at not emphasizing sweets vs dinner. So if we have cookies nearby and they ask for a cookie with dinner, or cupcake, or whatever, we include it with dinner. It's actually remarkable now if we sit down for lunch, more often than not, our kids will not go to eat the junk food first (or at all), so for now...it's no different of food than some carbs, veggies, or starch.

And yes we have some dino-nuggies in the freezer too, ha.

[Horace]

@Mik said in Tonight's Dinner - Chicken:

By the way, that dinner was the night I decided I was gonna run that mama's boy off.

I'm curious, how did you go about that?

[Jolly]

@Horace said in Tonight's Dinner - Chicken:

@Mik said in Tonight's Dinner - Chicken:

By the way, that dinner was the night I decided I was gonna run that mama's boy off.

I'm curious, how did you go about that?

Oh, a simple man-on-man talk can do it. Something about that moment when their life flashes in front of their face...

[Mik]

@Horace said in Tonight's Dinner - Chicken:

@Mik said in Tonight's Dinner - Chicken:

By the way, that dinner was the night I decided I was gonna run that mama's boy off.

I'm curious, how did you go about that?

Overt hostility and intimidation.

I think I've explained my attitude toward young male suitors before.

It's starts from here - we hate you. Now, you might think you are in the clear because it couldn't get any worse, but you'd be wrong. It can get a whole lot worse. Do not try me.

[brenda]

@Mik said in Tonight's Dinner - Chicken:

@Horace said in Tonight's Dinner - Chicken:

@Mik said in Tonight's Dinner - Chicken:

By the way, that dinner was the night I decided I was gonna run that mama's boy off.

I'm curious, how did you go about that?

Overt hostility and intimidation.

I think I've explained my attitude toward young male suitors before.

It's starts from here - we hate you. Now, you might think you are in the clear because it couldn't get any worse, but you'd be wrong. It can get a whole lot worse. Do not try me.

I would love to be the fly on the wall listening to this process.

[Aqua Letifer]

@brenda said in Tonight's Dinner - Chicken:

@Mik said in Tonight's Dinner - Chicken:

@Horace said in Tonight's Dinner - Chicken:

@Mik said in Tonight's Dinner - Chicken:

By the way, that dinner was the night I decided I was gonna run that mama's boy off.

I'm curious, how did you go about that?

Overt hostility and intimidation.

I think I've explained my attitude toward young male suitors before.

It's starts from here - we hate you. Now, you might think you are in the clear because it couldn't get any worse, but you'd be wrong. It can get a whole lot worse. Do not try me.

I would love to be the fly on the wall listening to this process.

Eff that, I'd put that shit on YouTube and split the royalties with Mik. It would easily pay for Mik's defense attorney for whatever came next.