{"id":13636,"date":"2011-06-13T11:26:35","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T15:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=13636"},"modified":"2011-06-13T11:26:35","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T15:26:35","slug":"grilling-and-chilling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2011\/06\/grilling-and-chilling\/","title":{"rendered":"Grilling and Chilling"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Hi pretties! How was everyone’s weekend?\u00a0 Was it like mine and it flew by way too quickly?\u00a0 I couldn’t even tell you what we did on Saturday, that’s how fast the day went.\u00a0 Yesterday was full of work, food prep for dinner and the week ahead, and then relaxing on the couch for a bit.<\/p>\n

You should know that I love my couch and if you’ve ever had the chance to sit on it then you know why.\u00a0 So squishy!<\/p>\n

This is the first installment of Homespun Sunday on Food Embrace! Exciting! For just a brief review, Homespun Sunday is a day during the week where the goal is to eat every meal at home and to have it be something that is made from real foods.\u00a0 No processed foods allowed! Real whole foods! You can read more about it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I took the chance to sleep in and while I still got up relatively early, it still qualified as sleeping in.\u00a0 I was a bit hungry when I got up so I had a Sunrise Cookie<\/a> topped with coconut butter<\/a>.\u00a0 YUM!\u00a0 I only had one cookie to help tide me over till Sunday breakfast.<\/p>\n

I did some school work listening to a two hour lecture but still didn’t get a chance to finish the week’s classes.\u00a0 I have to catch up! I also got a chicken prepped and into a brine for dinner later.\u00a0 By this point Scotty was up and it was time to get a move on breakfast.<\/p>\n

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No pancakes this week, good ‘ole eggs!\u00a0 Local eggs scrambled and topped with hot sauce.\u00a0 Cholula represent! I found a new to me local bread at the store the other day and breakfast was the perfect time to toast some up and try it out.\u00a0 Chicken sausage and fruit round out the meal!<\/p>\n

After breakfast I prepped some veggies for the week ahead, I made some veggie mash for Rocks, and I got to work on a BBQ sauce for the chicken.\u00a0 Big day in the kitchen! I wanted to crank out some sort of dessert too, but I ran out of time.<\/p>\n

Scott and I headed out for a walk and I fed Rocky his supper.\u00a0 I got beans started on the stove and Scott got started getting the grill ready.<\/p>\n

I originally planned on roasting the chicken last night but at the last minuted decided to try my hand at quartering it so that we could grill it.\u00a0 Very simple to do with kitchen shears! My first time quartering up a whole chicken and it was easy peasy!<\/p>\n

The back that I removed, I stored away for making stock later.<\/p>\n

The chicken grilled, the beans were cooking away with some greens, and I had leftover polenta from the night before that I quickly turned into cheesy polenta.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The chicken brined in a tequila lime brine.\u00a0 I then made a tequila chipotle and lime BBQ sauce to go on top and for dipping.\u00a0 It was so very yummy!\u00a0 The beans were pinto beans that I started soaking early on Saturday. I changed the water three times before I started cooking them.\u00a0 I simmered them for about an hour in plain water.\u00a0 Then I drained them, added onions and kale, and a mixture of chicken stock and water.\u00a0 Let them simmer again for about another 1.5 hours before serving up.\u00a0 So so good and there’s leftovers for today!\u00a0 Hooray!<\/p>\n

Sorry I don’t have a better picture of the chicken but meat is such a difficult thing to photograph and I wanted to eat my supper so my patience was low!<\/p>\n

After dinner and kitchen clean up it was time to settle on the couch with some Venture Bros. We just got last season in the mail!<\/p>\n

So tell me about your weekend!<\/strong><\/p>\n

This post is part of Food Embrace’s Homespun Sunday series.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi pretties! How was everyone’s weekend?\u00a0 Was it like mine and it flew by way too quickly?\u00a0 I couldn’t even tell you what we did on Saturday, that’s how fast the day went.\u00a0 Yesterday was full of work, food prep for dinner and the week ahead, and then relaxing on the couch for a bit. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-3xW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}