Amy & Jamie: Competition Chicken and a Salad
The first installment of Amy & Jamie came last month with a little steak plus brick experiment. It went well enough to cause us to continue to cook our way through Jamie Oliver’s cookbook, Jamie’s America. And if gives me an excuse to speak in a British accent around the kitchen all afternoon. I promise it’s not annoying at all.
During some down time from both of our j-o-b-s we whipped up Mr. Oliver’s Competition Chicken which can be found on page 292 as well as a Southern Pecan & Apple Salad, found on page. 248. In an attempt not to totally plagiarise the book I will refrain from posting the recipes that aren’t available online – and these aren’t online.
I assume that Jamie Oliver and his people would prefer you to buy his cookbook rather than get the recipes free from me. Here is a nice interview from his website though with the man named Lonnie who helped inspire the chicken.
Things learned while making this recipe:
- We were duped in that this one chicken recipe was really three. You had to concoct a dry rub as well as a homemade barbecue sauce before proceeding. Thus it took some time. The chicken also cooks on a low heat of 275 degrees for about two hours. The results were worth the time committment though. The dogs were going nuts just for the smell that filled our teeny house. Seriously, there was foam from the mouth and wag from the tail.
- Perhaps I am too aggressive with my measuring spoons. I really liked this one too. This set is the only thing in our house from Anthropologie – unless you count my Design Sponge book. Oh, and I also learned that I need a mortar and pestle so that I can grind “fennow” seeds, as Jamie would say.
- Also, I am really bad at remembering to take after photos of our meals. As soon as the time goes off I switch my blogger switch to eater. Here is a nice progress shot though. It was taken about 1.5 hours into baking before the final dunk in homemade BBQ sauce.
And here’s the salad. Neither dish came out as pretty as the book, but does it ever? We’re telling ourselves that both were just as tasty as they were meant to be.
So we’re agreed, you’ll get this book and follow along from now on? It’s got some tasty vittles in it - next up is Rustic Tortilla Soup. Avocado is involved, you’ll want to participate.
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Mmm looks so tasty! I love Jamie Oliver.
We’ve really been loving his cookbook. His show on BBC America is interesting. Very “shot with a home video camera.” Which we kinda like.