Smoked Citrus Chicken

Julie,

Am I reading the recipe correctly that you are barding a skin on chicken?

I do love fresh cilantro and this sounds delicious.

Cogster: I think cilantro sucks! I'd rather eat Joy Soap! It tastes like soap to me. Anyway, this recipe sounds great with the sour fruits and I have made a similiar one in Smokette using rosemary. I love the Bacon Bard. Bacon in a CS is like...heaven!

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Originally posted by Andi:
[qb]Cogster: I think cilantro sucks! I'd rather eat Joy Soap! It tastes like soap to me. [/qb]

Go Sis; OD'd on it too, can smell/taste it a mile away now.

Q
Lamar

Children, Children!

We all have our opinions . . . and in this instance y'all happen to be wrong!

Just kidding. But it does sound like a too heavy hand was used in the application if y'all were using the fresh herb.

Actually, I really only like fresh cilantro, like in turn your fingers green when you cut it up, bought in the salad section of the market kind of fresh cilantro . . . not 'fresh' dried or ground or some of the other forms that I have seen offered as cilantro . . . I agree with you there, they suck! But the fresh stuff has a sweet grassey flavor that I have never tasted in the dried variety.

Ah....love is in there air.

You have to love the openess here. Now it's the "Cilantro" wars.

Mrs. Smokin' can't make Salsa without it. So my vote goes to the fresh variety (only).

Smokin',

Why am I always in the middle of the fray? I assure all that, sarcasm and smart butt attitude aside, I love y'all and love the banter that I hope folks take with a grain of salt (another condiment fire fight?) and that they recognize my style for the wit it is meant to be!
I can apparently pull this off better face-to-face . . . or my friends are the most accomplished group of actors I have ever seen.

(I still like fresh cilantro and agree with the little woman . . . I can't make a decent salsa without it!)

No, guys, you don't understand. Cilantro really does suck to me! LOL! I cannot stand the stuff! It tastes like soap, and even a small amount ruins the dish for me. Just recieved some in the mail (fresh) yesterday, and I can't even stand the smell!

I hate the "in" thing with cooks every year. Cilantro in EVERYTHING! We used to call it Chinese Parsley! Thank goodness the "in" thing this year is cardamom, which I love, but wouldn't put on a steak!

Cog I'm on your side. You're just always around helping us "see" a different side.

Saw a show, weeks ago, and they were interviewing lots of people and it was essentially -- either you totally loved Cilantro, or you totally didn't. Both sides WIN! I just won't be sending Andi any salsa when she wants the brisket

And Cog, you've found the lesson of the internet, it's always hard for the subtleties and nuances of speech to come through in email/post. Besides you can't whop them up the side of the head if they disagree, can you? I guess Smokin has a whoppin' stick, we'll have to find some method for you.

LOL, Smokin'! Fact is...and don't tell anyone I told you, but I did a trade with a Florida gal who sent me the absolute best salsa I have ever had. I became addicted and hoarded the stuff! Come to find out, there was fresh-from-her-garden cilantro in there. So! All is not lost!

. . . awwwww, you guys! Actually, I wasn't too worried about Andi, who seems to go with the flow and has a great sense of humor . . . some others? Well, I always seem to be able to trip the trigger.

Anyway, to quote Bartles and James

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. . .And as always, we thank you for your support!

LOL, Cogster! (I believe you already know what a bitch I can be!) Hey! It's in my jeans! Er...genes...

Dang! Cilantro wars. Andi, you've got to go with me to Central America. Expand your horizons. Not soap! Good! But distinctive! Thank god. Something different and real. Ceviche with cilantro. Awesome. Soups with cilantro. Excellent. Cilantro has it's place. For true, for true.

Dang, I2! You must come to the Interior with me and expand your horizons! Porcupine Liver On A Stick! Then we'll head for the coast for some Sea-Lion Kidney with Hot Mustard! LOLOLOL!

Ain't there BAD bugs and snakes there? Scaredy-cat here!

Andi, speaking of expanded horizons, can you see Uzbekistan from where you are? Climb your mountain, face north and look over to your left. I wonder if they BBQ there.

Hurricane Iris is about to wipe out my friends. It's always something...

All I have to report from my trip is a charcoal grill in a Honduras restaurant equipped with a bellows as big as a table top. Had a rope from the diaphram up through a pulley on the ceiling, tied to a flywheel for a counter weight. Blacksmith-sort of equipment. The girl cooking slapped the churascos on the grill and pumped the bellows till the charcoal turned white. Hot enough to mend a wagon wheel! Melt lead! The girl was sweating and pumping and grilling like crazy.

Nice piece of hardware. Good steak!

Hey,i2BBQ.

If you want to know about bbq in Uzbekistan,ask Smokin' about his youth.

We used to call it "jelly gas"

Yeah, Now THAT's what I'm talking about.

They didn't call me "Smokin'" in the Weapons Research Lab because of my BBQ...

...nope



Now Cog/ et. all...look where this RECIPE post has gone. I've just got no control.

I2BBQ! Well, sir! Have you been checked for dyslexia? Seems you have the "GIRL" and the "GRILL" mixed up! LOLOL! With all that pumping, and sweating, and such, that must have been a Barbie-Que! Seems you may have bellow and fellow mixed-up! ROTFLMAO!

Now, Donna, you see? I didn't say it. It was somebody else....

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pumping, and sweating, and such,

Maybe I'm a bad influence...
Andi, I'm in trouble.

Hey, everyone! Love it or hate it...my husband took four of the smoked chickens to work today and they were picked clean! Everyone at work loves our herb garden here in Oklahoma when they benefit from the harvest with food from the smoker!! I agree about the cilantro, though; it took me three years to acquire a taste for it. Glad my recipe created such a controversy!!!