A Little Pre Thanksgiving Fun Cook

[Rich Dahl]

Barb and I decided to have a little pre-Thanksgiving fun. We were going to cook up some bone in thighs for dinner and weren’t sure how we wanted to cook them.
So we went with a no recipe off the tops of our heads Thanksgiving theme cook.
So here goes.

Chicken thighs marinated in a blended cranberry, apple juice, pumpkin spice marinade.

After marinating for six hours then wrapped in cinnamon homemade bacon.

Cooked on the performer indirect with pecan as the smoke

When done put on direct to crisp up the bacon.

Continued:

 

[Rich Dahl]

One side dish was white rice cooked in chicken broth with a Tsp of French Time and a Tsp. of Sage.

A cranberry gravy with reserved cranberry marinade, corn starch, beef broth, sugar, ACV and butter.

Barb made some zucchini boats with cooked cranberries, brown sugar, walnuts, Granny Smith apple and mixed in with the removed zucchini that was diced.

Plated

Everything was wonderful the only two things I would do different is I would eliminate the smoke as the cranberry marinade was great but a little overpowered by the pecan smoke and I would remove the skin on the thighs. The skin was not crispy due to the bacon fat, eliminating the skin would have given the bacon a better chance to flavor the chicken.
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The gravy I could just put in a coffee cup and drink it. It was that good.
Even the marinade would make a great smoothie.
The rice will become a standard on the day to day menu same with Barbs zucchini boats, just good stuff!

To all our forum friends Barb and I wish you a happy Thanksgiving and may your day be filled with good food, family and friends

 

[Benji Chong]

Pics look great! And i'm totally cooking our white rice on Thursday in chicken broth!

 

[Enrico Brandizzi]

That plate looks really tasty from here!

 

[Cliff Bartlett]

Great looking cook Rich and Barb. That chicken looks gorgeous and the sides are great too. Really like the zucchini boats!

 

[GGross]

looks great and very interesting.

 

[Craig Alumbaugh]

Everything looks delicious and very creative. Happy Thanksgiving to you and Barb from my Florida family

 

[Joe InJersey]

Wow. I love cranberries. I loved everything about this post. Is that bear there in the brown sugar to keep it from clumping? what is that?

 

[Rich Dahl]

Wow. I love cranberries. I loved everything about this post. Is that bear there in the brown sugar to keep it from clumping? what is that?

You got it. You soak the bear for a few hours then wipe it off and put in the brown sugar, it keeps the sugar from drying out works for a month or more.

 

[Jason Noble]

Excellent cooking Rich! Have a great Thanksgiving.

 

[ChuckO]

Looks fantastic Rich!