Tonight is game two in this year’s state of origin series. On the old blog you can find many posts about state of origin and where my allegiances lie. Needless to say the photograph of me on my about page has the Queensland flag as a background. The Maroon jumper I wear in my twitter and instagram avatars says it all QUEENSLANDER!!!
On the way home tonight I stopped at Jamison Takeaway in the Jamison Plaza and bought some potato scallops and calamari rings to snack on while I cooked my dinner.
Sorry it’s a little blurry. I was so excited about eating them 🙂
A need to do a shout out to the lovely ladies at the Jamison Takeaway. They always give me an extra potato scallop. They are the best.
For dinner I made honey soy chicken wings. They make great footy food. Click on the image if you want to see a bigger version.
Honey soy chicken wings | Footy food by Yummy Lummy
Recipe Type: Footy food
Cuisine: Australian
Author: Gary Lum
Rugby league is the greatest game of all. State of origin is the greatest example of rugby league. Queensland is the greatest state in Australia and in the world, even the universe. Footy and food go hand in hand.
Ingredients
Chicken wings
Honey
Soy sauce
Olive oil
Sherry
Dessicated coconut
Sesame seeds
Chilli flakes
Pepper
Instructions
In a bowl add the chicken and everything else
Mix well and allow to rest for ten minutes
Put into a preheated oven (150 °C) for one hour
Plate up
Capture an image with a Nikon D5300 and a Tamron 90 mm Macro lens at 1/25 seconds, f/8 and ISO 100
Eat the food while watching the pregame highlights
Wash the dishes
Write the blog post
Enjoy the game
Hope Queensland defeats New South Wales
Notes
Just to repeat, rugby league is the greatest game of all. State of origin is what sport is all about. Queenslanders are the best FULL STOP
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Delicious Chicken Maryland is my favourite piece of roasted chicken for a meal. It contains the juicy tender dark meat of the thigh and the fun of meat on a stick in the drumstick. If you’re extra lucky you get the cloaca too for an extra special treat.
Place about â…“ cup of quinoa and rice into the bottom of the roasting tray
Add â…” cup of water to the roasting tray
Place a rack in the roasting tray and add the Chicken Maryland which has been rubbed with olive oil, salt and dried mixed herbs
Place the chicken into an oven at 150 °C for 1 hour (use a meat thermometer to ensure food safety)
Cut the potato, sweet potato and capsicum into wedges or batons
Dice some classic SPAM®
Finely dice some jalapeño pepper
Put the jalapeño pepper, potato, sweet potato, capsicum and SPAM® into a large bowl and mix with some olive oil, grated cheese, cracked black peppercorns, and a dash of Worcestershire sauce
Lay out the vegetables onto some baking paper on an oven tray
Place the vegetables into the oven on another shelf with the chicken and cook for 1 hour
Pull the chicken out of the oven and make sure the meat thermometer has achieved the correct cooking temperature to kill most vegetative bacteria (this is 75 °C according to chicken.org.au)
Allow the chicken to rest for about 20 to 30 minutes (resting is really important, it helps ensure a succulent flesh)
Scoop out the quinoa and rice from the baking tray and place half in a bowl in the refrigerator for lunch the next day with some salad leaves.
Keep the rest of the quinoa and rice warm to serve with the chicken and vegetables
Hopefully you’ve timed the cooking of the vegetables to coincide with the end of the resting period of the chicken
When the chicken is rested plate up the vegetables onto a plate, then place the rice and quinoa next to the vegetables. Finally add the chicken.
If you are French you probably made a sauce and lots of it to enjoy with the chicken, me, I’m an Australian. We don’t need sauce.
Shoot a photograph
Inhale the meal
Wash the dishes
Write the recipe
Blog (verb)
A pretty nice meal to put together
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Here’s me eating a Chicken Maryland with quinoa rice and kale coleslaw
Here’s another version of a Chicken Maryland dish for you to check out and try.
Regular readers know I love the cloaca roasted nice and crispy, but failing that, my favourite meat is the dark thigh meat. Having a drumstick on it to make a Chicken Maryland is okay too but it’s really the thigh meat. I also like chicken wings, roasted in a hot oven.
Besides oven roasting how else do you like cooking chicken?
When making chicken curry, I like using a slow cooker and making a nice full bodied curried chicken.
Skin off or skin on?
Is that a serious question? I love chicken skin. One of my favourite things is deep fried chicken skin as a snap with dip. I seriously like fried chicken and crispy chicken skin. One of my favourite Chinese dishes is a boiled chicken that has had boiling fat poured on it to crisp up the skin. It’s amazing.
Why does everything taste like chicken?
Well, it doesn’t really. Beef tastes like beef, lamb like lamb and pork like pork. I’ve eaten crocodile and it didn’t taste like chicken.
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