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This dinner, I threw for a few select friends, could have been classified as a "Big 'OL BBQ Event" but in reality, there were only eight folks around. Tom and Adele Wilson, Linda Miller, Marty Romero, Frank Gallagher, Kevin Burke and Mike Moran were also in attendance.

It was a salsa kind of Friday Night, thus I decided on the slow cooked dish that follows for Saturday afternoon:

Mexican Seasoned Chicken Halves,
with Foster's Fiesta Platter

  • 8 - (1 to 1.5 - pound) Chicken halves marinated in any combination of mexican seasonings with a light sprinkling of chili powder and marinated at least overnight (this is a slightly dryish marinade).
  • FIESTA PLATTER as FOLLOWS,
  • 2 - 16 oz cans of refried beans with 3 finely chopped green onions blended in, and 1/4 pound Queso Blanco folded in after the onions. (just heat on low while you are cooking the following rice).
  • Seasoned Rice, I cheated and used a "bag 'O blend" type. But it was recommended by the butcher at my local Latino Meat Market (Carniceria) in Glendale. (I'll get the address for you later). They have both chicken and pork, already cut up and sitting in the afore mentioned red marinate, ready for the grill.
  • 1 Pickled egg per plate, slice with hard boiled egg slicer and lay along the middle of the dish to border the area where the chicken will sit.
  • Mexican style iceberg lettuce salad, sliced not chopped or torn, (Full round sliced beefsteak tomatoes, paper thin slices of small red radishes, fragrant slices of sweet onion separated into half rings, no dressing needed, once that chicken hits the plate.

 

Timing is the key. For this dish I used Barbie. Barbie is, of course, my horizontal steel drum barbecue, made by hand from Ishmael's in Los Angeles. She is a medium drum on metal legs, with a prep board that runs along her front edge. I call her Barbie, she's better than a girlfriend because, when I come home she is always waiting for me in the back yard, she doesn't talk too much and she always feeds me!

Anyhow, Barbie did the chicken in about one hour. Thirty minutes before it would be done, I started the rice and started the beans on a very low heat. Twenty minutes later we all had Fiesta platters on our laps and the whole crowd was smakin' and chewin' and talkin' through their chompin' lips so much, that even Barbie thought we were rude. But I just laughed at her and patted her on her lid. I hollered at her, "Barbie! OOOOOOH That's Good!



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