helen blog » Photos http://blog.helenyhou.com food, web, wordpress, collaborative piano, thoughts, links, etc. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:51:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Sunday cleaning: Shoes (or more accurately, heels) http://blog.helenyhou.com/2012/01/sunday-cleaning-shoes-or-more-accurately-heels/ http://blog.helenyhou.com/2012/01/sunday-cleaning-shoes-or-more-accurately-heels/#comments Sun, 08 Jan 2012 19:00:33 +0000 Helen http://blog.helenyhou.com/?p=973 20120108-124601.jpg

You read correctly. There are other types of shoes elsewhere.

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Thoughts:

  • The promised crispy skin exceeded all expectations.
  • The five spice + ginger + garlic butter under the skin was genius. Brining for at least a couple of hours also highly recommended.
  • Splattering fat made a mess of the oven.
  • A cooling rack set over a 13×9 pan works just fine in lieu of a proper broiler pan and top.
  • Cooking the peas under the chicken in a second oven visit was a little bit of a hassle but very smart and delicious.
  • Cheap. Like, stupid cheap even though we only buy natural/organic chicken. Chicken thighs are awesome.
  • I need new knives that are actually sharp enough to score skin. That part was unnecessarily difficult.

Bonus: a REALLY good 8% ABV saison (farmhouse ale) out of Kansas City – Boulevard Tank 7. Complemented the food perfectly, as would any citrusy-peppery beer; Sam Adams Summer Ale comes to mind as something more widely available, although it’s the wrong time of year for it.

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The larger a body

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Copperplate Pangram

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El Chapulin Colorado papercraft

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Espresso crema

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look

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Urban parking

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Chinito ♥

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