Tuscan Chicken with Mediterranean White Bean and Romaine Salads
Spring is finally here and I have been so busy clearing the winter debris from all my planting beds. While all the plantings are beautiful once the growth is fully under way, every spring I feel like I have been overly ambitious with the plantings- three days of clearing and I have so much more to do...
This is the path down the south side of my house, just to give you a clue of what I am up against. I have the house, patio, and deck surrounded, most of the perimeter of the yard, and the random beds here and there. It will all be worth it in another week or three :)
Tuscan Lemon Chicken
1 chicken, flattened (I used chicken leg quarters instead)
1/3 cup good olive oil
2 tsp. grated lemon zest (2 lemons)
1/3 cup fresh squeezed lemon juice
1 tbs. minced garlic (3 cloves)
1 tbs. minced fresh rosemary (I used 1 tsp. dried)
freshly ground black pepper
1 lemon, halved
Ina gives directions for flattening a whole chicken and grilling it under weights (see the link to the original above). I kept it very simple and just put the chicken and all the marinating ingredients in a gallon sized ziplock bag; Ben then grilled it that evening on the gas grill and used no weights. The lemon halves he charred and then finished up on the upper rack and they turned out perfectly.
The mailbox, before I cut away all the dead growth.
And tomorrow...Red Wine Braised Beef Shanks with Garlic Smashed Potatoes
you sure have a lot of ground to cover, but i imagine it's fantastic when everything is in bloom. i planted red gladioli today, and onion and carrots. lovely chicken!
ReplyDeleteIt is beautiful when it is all in bloom. I'll post a pic or two from last year with the next post.
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