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Janet Wilder[_1_] Janet Wilder[_1_] is offline
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Default Just dawned on me: 4th of July approaches...

George Shirley wrote:
> ChattyCathy wrote:
>> George Shirley wrote:
>>
>>> ChattyCathy wrote:
>>>> Obviously we don't celebrate it here, but a great many r.f.c.-ers
>>>> do. So
>>>> what's on *your* menu?
>>> Drunken chicken, baked beans, baked potatoes, peanut butter ice cream
>>> with miniature Reese's cups, cold beverages.

>>
>> Drunken chicken - what makes it 'drunken'? Beer? Hope it's not
>> tequila... ;-) Peanut butter ice cream sounds good to me too...

> Yeah, you sit the chicken upright on a half full beer can and grill it
> over charcoal or gas. Of course you put a rub on it first to help the
> flavor.


Beer can chicken is my all-time favorite chicken. I use a rub, too. I
also stick an onion or small potato in the neck hole of the chicken. We
have a huge gas grill so I make the chicken on the non-fire side and
stick a few foil-wrapped chunks of hickory on the fire-side.

> I pulled down two recipes for peanut butter ice cream from the web, both
> sound good but I'll make them at separate times. Many years ago, late
> sixties if I remember correctly, Blue Bell Ice Cream made a flavor
> called Peanutty Fudge. Only made it for one year and I've missed it
> since. Tried to eat all of it I could back then in hopes they would keep
> it in the line.



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