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Dinner Tonight: Grilled Chicken with Herb Sauce
I'm no big fan of breast fillet, so I debone legs almost every day - I don't need them in sock-like fullness, just deboned. I slit them legthwise along the thigh bone to the ankle, using a sharp paring or fillet knife, then cut the meat from the bone on both sides, and then start slicing the tendons and connecting tissues away from the 'chicken knee' until i have a flat fillet. Takes maybe 40 seconds. I usually remove the skin but you don't have to. You can split the leg fillet into a thigh and a leg, and you have the basic cut for some great japanese fried katsu or grilled chicken. Cut into smaller bits for stir fry or kebabs. Without the bone it cooks much quicker and more evenly on a grill or fry pan.
Does anyone carry their own condiments around?
As a musician based in Europe, I travel a lot, and a lot of times bands on tour don't get to choose where and what they are eating. So I carry small bottles of hot sauce with me (el Yucateco Kutbil-Ik) in case something terrible happens, such as being fed in Austria (national dish: schnitzel) or Finland (national dish: cat food).
The Joys of Bluefish
A recipe well known among fishermen in New England is to clean your bluefish right after catching it, wrap it in heavy duty tinfoil, open up your automobile's engine hood, place the tinfoil on top of the radiator of your car, and drive home (approx. 45 minutes) Sounds bizarre, but people actually do it.
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About zaelic
Website: http://horinca.blogspot.com
Location: Budapest, Hungary
About: Musician, travel writer, ex-chef, trained as an anthropologist, I travel a lot.
Favorite foods: Meat cooked by Turks. Non-meat cooked by Italians. Leave everything else to the noodle joints on East Browdway.
Last bite on earth: Katz's pastrami (juicy cut, please) on rye..

Ribeye! Ribeye! Ribeye!
There. I've said it. The whole world knows.