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Chicken on the Spit

July 1st, 2014 · 2 Comments · Recipes

It hardly seems possible chicken could be any more moist and flavorful than the Freedom Rangers we raise on our pastures. One exception might be the same Freedom Ranger brined then roasted on a spit over hot coals. It took us a long time to come around to brining poultry. Could it possibly make that […]

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Season’s First Spit-Roasted Chicken

March 16th, 2011 · 2 Comments · dinner

We liked our first ever brined chicken so much we decided to another. Except this time we used one of the birds our local dairy delivers and spit-roasted it over live coals. This may be the best chicken I’ve ever tasted. We served it with leeks from the garden, braised on the stove in chicken […]

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My Favorite Piece of Kitchen Equipment Isn’t in the Kitchen

August 28th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Recipes

We use cast iron skillets and Le Creuset pots for cooking every day. But ask me what turns me on most in my batterie de cuisine and I would have to say my electric Weber spit-roaster. It’s really just a metal ring that fits onto a standard Weber grill with a bracket to hold the […]

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