Throw a Brick

Here is Bricked Rosemary Chicken with Lemon - from Bobby Flay's Grilling for Life, page 136. Under the brick the chicken got a little blackened, but it was still tender and juicy on the inside. The marinade for the chicken was olive oil, lemon juice, lemon zest, and fresh rosemary. I bought a whole frier chicken and had the store butcher butterfly cut it by taking out the back bone and laying it open. When you buy chicken by the piece, like thighs, legs, wings, breasts, you pay more to have the cutting done. But if you buy the whole chicken, the butcher will cut it up for free - so you get what you want for about half price! After marinating the butterfly chicken, it went onto the grill and under the brick. 

What to Drink? White Truck. From the same folks that bring us Red Truck wine, White Truck is a blend of California whites. One of the characteristics of many white wines is their citrus flavors. We thought that would pair well with the chicken that also had lemon in the marinade. It worked. Red and/or White Truck will work for you as well, so give them a try sometime. http://www.redtruckwine.com/redtruck/index.jsp

Sometimes when a flight student unexpectedly does poorly on a flight test, we call that "throwing a brick." It happens. A really good student, does something really dumb on the flight test, right in front of the pilot examiner. They had never made that mistake before and it is a safe bet that they will never make that same mistake again. The mistake came out of no where. We didn't see it coming - they just Threw a Brick. In flight training, throwing a brick is a bad thing - in grilling it can be a good thing - as long as the brick is wrapped in foil and on top of a chicken!

More brick throwing (the good kind) and more grilling to come!

Paul