Ugh, had to work again last weekend. Hopefully that’s the last of the ruined weekends for a while. We did get out Saturday night for a few hours. Some friends were singing down in Folsom, and we wanted to catch that show. Normally I would have immediately declared it too far out of my circle, but as it happened I had to be in EDH at 9:00 pm for work, so why not mix in some fun prior to the not-fun.

Sunday I was couched all day. Those all-nighters at the datacenter just ain’t my thing anymore. My excitement for the whole day was grilling a chicken, following a recipe I came across last week. Not gonna lie, preparing the spatchcock chicken has intimidated me for many years. I’ve watched youtube videos, read countless directions, but never got up the courage to give it a try. Turns out it’s not quite the complex process I had in my head. Two minutes with a meat cleaver did the trick. Add that to the life skills list I guess. The recipe came out good, with one quibble. I put the weight on it while it cooked, per the instructions, using a bacon press as it happens. Of course that didn’t let the skin brown under the weight, leaving a big ol’ white spot right in the middle of the nice crispy brown skin. Flipping it helped, but it didn’t get evenly browned by any stretch. I might skip that part next time, not convinced it was needed.

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