Chicken halves, potatoes, and asparagus

tarheelmatt · August 2016

I enjoy cooking doing the whole meal on the Egg. It's somewhat of a challenge, especially with timing.

Local place had a great deal on whole chickens ($.56 lb), so I bought a couple to freeze and a couple to cook. I decided to halve this one. About four hours before I rubbed with a homemade dressing I made a couple days ago (red wine vin, balsamic vin, canola, salt, pepper, honey, parsley, garlic pow, onion pow, season salt, and ranch seasoning).

Potatoes were scrubbed and dried well. Canola oil and liberal amounts of kosher salt.

Asparagus medley consisted of onion and sweet peppers. Canola oil, butter, salt, and pepper only.

All cooked at around 425°, indirect, for roughly 50 min.

Veggies were less. I let the CI get hot w/oil and butter, then added the veggies.

Pictures:

1 - Progress about 20-25 min in.

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2 - Veggies in the CI.

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3 - Chicken getting nice color

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4 - Getting close to ready.

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5 - Done

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6 - I love taters on the Egg.

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9 - My MIL gave me an early birthday gift.

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Thanks for taking a look.

Dyal_SC · August 2016

You are the bestest picture taker on the forum. And one of my favorite cooks too!! Excellent as always!!

beachsmoke · August 2016

looks fantastic great cook

tarheelmatt · August 2016

Dyal_SC said:

You are the bestest picture taker on the forum. And one of my favorite cooks too!! Excellent as always!!

You're too nice brother! Appreciate the kind comments.

beachsmoke said:

looks fantastic great cook

Thank you!

JMCXL · August 2016

meal/cook looks great - nice looking bird.

Mattman3969 · August 2016

It would have taken 3 eggs to pull that off at my house. You kick arse and the food looks killer too!!

Theophan · August 2016

tarheelmatt said:

I enjoy cooking doing the whole meal on the Egg. It's somewhat of a challenge, especially with timing.

I'm in awe! I've never even attempted it. All too often the meat part of the meal is the only part I've really thought about, and I'm pretty happy with just bread and a salad as sides. My wife often makes sides. Amazing job of doing the whole thing on the Egg!

KiterTodd · August 2016

It all looks good, but that chicken looks stellar! And I always forget to cook whole potatoes like that. Liberal on the salt, I like it...

NC_Egghead · August 2016

Nice job getting it all done on the Egg. It all looks great. Now I want some Egged chicken!

pgprescott · August 2016

Orange soda for your birthday! Nice!

Kidding! Nice cook as usual, and nice Tervis.

tarheelmatt · August 2016

pgprescott said:

Orange soda for your birthday! Nice!

Kidding! Nice cook as usual, and nice Tervis.

Diet Sunkist is my drink of choice!

Thanks budd!

johnmitchell · August 2016

Nice looking cook Matt. Thats a great looking early Birthday gift.. Enjoy Diet Sunkist myself..... Mine with a splash of Tito's

tarheelmatt · August 2016

johnmitchell said:

Nice looking cook Matt. Thats a great looking early Birthday gift.. Enjoy Diet Sunkist myself..... Mine with a splash of Tito's

Haha John! You savage. Maybe one day when I'm feeling froggy, I'll get me some Tito's and try.

bgebrent · August 2016

Awesome Matt! Whole meals on the egg are fun and challenging. Looks like you nailed this! Now, if you could get us a little better photography it would be appreciated.

northGAcock · August 2016

Beautiful Matt (as always). We all know that really is a glass of Tang.....its what the astronauts drink.

Happy Birthday today or when ever it rolls through.

Griffin · August 2016

Outstanding looking meal. Ya know...I've never done baked potatoes on the Egg before. Thought about it in the past, but for some reason I never did and nowadays I hardly eat them. Even half of one kills my blood sugar. Maybe I'll try it someday.

THEBuckeye · August 2016

You've made Veggies look Great Again!

THEBuckeye · August 2016

Griffin said:

Outstanding looking meal. Ya know...I've never done baked potatoes on the Egg before. Thought about it in the past, but for some reason I never did and nowadays I hardly eat them. Even half of one kills my blood sugar. Maybe I'll try it someday.

Try one - and just eat a half or even two bites. Baked spuds on the Egg are so good - baked or sweet. A little EVOO rub and sea salt rub and you're there.

tarheelmatt · August 2016

Griffin said:

Outstanding looking meal. Ya know...I've never done baked potatoes on the Egg before. Thought about it in the past, but for some reason I never did and nowadays I hardly eat them. Even half of one kills my blood sugar. Maybe I'll try it someday.

It was a long time before I did either, but man when I did, they were amazing! I did some cheesy potatoes not long ago where I Egged whole potatoes, cubed them, applied a liberal amount of ranch dressing on the bottom of a CI pan, added potatoes, then a bunch of cheese, bacon, and topped with green onions. It's a spin off a dish from T-Bones in Myrtle Beach.

http://eggheadforum.com/discussion/1196802/srf-rr-sirloin-and-cheese-fries#latest

tarheelmatt · August 2016

bgebrent said:

Awesome Matt! Whole meals on the egg are fun and challenging. Looks like you nailed this! Now, if you could get us a little better photography it would be appreciated.

I'm trying to deliver a great picture to you, just for you B-Rent. Just in hopes I get an adda-boy from you.

tarheelmatt · August 2016

northGAcock said:

Beautiful Matt (as always). We all know that really is a glass of Tang.....its what the astronauts drink. Happy Birthday today or when ever it rolls through.

I like some Tang too, now.

Thanks for the wishes buddy. It's Wednesday, but she's in Ohio and got these for me while in town a couple weekends ago.

JethroVA · August 2016

Beautiful cook Matt! great photography too

JohnnyTarheel · August 2016

The meal is rock solid!! Dang pics make me want another supper tonight!!!

tarheelmatt · August 2016

Thanks @JethroVA and @JohnnyTarheel!

Canugghead · August 2016

Everything looks yummy! I struggle to cook one item at a time

BrueggeDad · August 2016

I like cooking the whole meal on the egg too, especially in summer. What you made looks awesome! Good job.

Tblack · August 2016

Awesome looking meal

StillH2OEgger · August 2016

I feel like you could make any food look good with photos like that, but I'm pretty dang sure that was delicious. Nice work on both ends.

NPHuskerFL · August 2016

I'm convinced you could egg dog $h!t & everybody would ooh and aah

Nice work my friend!

https://youtu.be/k0AuipqPqsU

tarheelmatt · August 2016

Lol @NPHuskerFL! Appreciate it brother.

Canugghead said:

Everything looks yummy! I struggle to cook one item at a time

Thank you!

BrueggeDad said:

I like cooking the whole meal on the egg too, especially in summer. What you made looks awesome! Good job.

It is a lot of fun. Thanks for taking a look.

Tblack said:

Awesome looking meal

Thank you!

StillH2OEgger said:

I feel like you could make any food look good with photos like that, but I'm pretty dang sure that was delicious. Nice work on both ends.

Appreciate the kind words!

TacoChicken · August 2016

Awesome looking Meal. I agree, your pictures look like they came from a magazine. Great job.

Chicken halves, potatoes, and asparagus

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