Skewers

Food grilled on a stick can't be beat. From Boy Meets Grill (page 50) this is Red-Hot Marinated Chicken Skewers with Yogurt-Cilantro Sauce. The Red-Hot marinade had ancho chilies, cayenne, cumin mixed with honey and orange juice. I cut the chicken into chunks - the right size for the skewers - and put them in the marinade for a couple hours. The fun part was just assembling the parts on the skewers. We used the chicken out of the marinade, chunks of onion and three colors of pepper. The skewers get brushed one more time with the marinade before the hit the grill. I put all the extra peppers and onion chunks in a grill basket and let the grill do the rest of the work. When everything was done, we added steamed brown rice and tortillas. I rolled one tortilla with all these ingredients and drizzled over the sauce. Dorothy ate hers open face. It was a hot/cold sensation!


Weather Report. I finally got to grill at a temperature that was above freezing!


What to drink? Big taste like these (with plenty of heat) needs a big spicy wine to stand up to it. We love Zinfindel from "old vines" when we want the big flavor. This time is was Gnarly Head. The vines are 80 years old and at that age become twisted and well, gnarly. The old vines produce small grapes, but that means the flavor is concentrated and that is what produces the big spicy flavor.


What was on? Brad Paisley. He has two songs I really like. The first is great for a blogger. It features the lyrics I'm so much cooler Online. The second is Welcome to the Future. It is a story about how far we have come. His grandfather fought the Japanese in WWI, but now we do video chats with people in Tokyo. When we were kids we wished we could watch TV on long family vacation drives and have a Pac-Man game at home, now we have all that on our phone. A friend on his high school football team had a cross burned on this front lawn for asking out the homecoming queen, now we have a national holiday to celebrate the man with a dream.

Hey, everyday is a revolution

Welcome to the Future

Hey, wake up Martin Luther

Welcome to the Future

Hey, glory, glory, hallelujah

Welcome to the Future

Check it out at http://bradpaisley.musiccitynetworks.com/
It's a great way to kickoff the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend!


Paul