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As I noted in the last post Julie and I have been dabbling with paleo/primal eating, so all of my recent cookbook purchases have been along those line. Most recently I bought Practical Paleo: A Customized Approach to Health and a Whole Foods Lifestyle by Diane Sanfilippo. Diane writes a blog entitled Balanced Bites which admittedly I have not often read. I have my favorite couple blogs and pretty much stick with them. At least the first 1/2 of this book recounts the whole premise of paleo eating so as a student of this for more than a year it is a repetitive although for the new paleo eater undoubtedly very useful.
To begin Diane calls to brush the chicken with melted bacon fat. That’s what you see in the white lidded jar among my collection of ingredients. We have been buying a 1/2 of a farm raised pig which comes with 8-9 pounds of some very nice bacon which I am sure to collect the drippings of. Reading the recipe that was the part that had me the most interested.
After cooking. (I’ll add the time and temp info when I have the book in front of me.) The chicken was done, it had a nice citrus taste but the skin was much less crispy and tasty then I expected after being coated with bacon fat. Last weeks chicken coated with olive oil had much crispier skin and as for the addition of bacon this recipe is still tops.
The chicken did have a nice citrus zing to it but not too much. There definitely could have been more veggies and i’m really not a fan of them cooking in the pan with the chicken, to me they become to greasy. Perhaps it’s time to begin experimenting with sides as we continue with the 52 Chickens Project. Diane’s book has one more recipe that use’s a parted whole chicken along as well as two yummy looking wing ideas. You’ll probably see those appear as well.