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[coraa]

Today, in a fit of boredom, I hot-smoked some chicken thighs.

(As opposed to the roast-with-smoke I did before. In short, this time I brined the bone-in, skin-on thighs with orange juice, lit the gas grill on one burner only [on high], put the packet of woodchips over that burner, put the chicken on the farthest side away from the heat, and let it cook, very slowly, for hours and hours and hours, well past 'well done.' This was perfectly tolerable even with the high heat because, of course, the grill was outside. The thighs turned very tender and very smoky-flavored indeed.)

(When I have a smoking method more precise than 'throw some stuff on the grill and see what happens,' I'll post more comprehensively about it.)

Neither the boy or I are hungry tonight for anything but maybe ice cream, and we're pretty well covered for dinners until Sunday or Monday, so I'll ask now: what would you do with some homemade fruitwood-smoked chicken thigh meat? Inquiring minds want to know!

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[coraa.livejournal.com]

(I suppose you could also say that it's because I'm jack of all trades and master of none: I do a lot of things, but I do very few of them excellently. I have a lot of hobbies, I guess, is the other way to put it.)

[donaithnen.livejournal.com]

Well, you _may_ have as little of an in-person social life as i do, but you certainly have a much better social life than i do online! (That part about keeping up on all kinds of internet forums.)

And i'm not sure what you consider to be "excellently", but you're certainly a lot better at the writing stuff than i am! And you're certainly better than most of the people that shelleycat reads snippets of off of that online critique site.

You also seem to read pretty darn fast and still do a good job of analyzing what you read. (Which probably corresponds at least in part to the being better at writing.)

I'm guessing that i'm probably better at video games than you (though i've never actually watched you play a lot of them, so it's hard to judge) but honestly of the two, i'd rather have the skill at writing :)

Oh yeah, and the cooking, i am in no way comparable to you in terms of cooking.

So you manage to do more stuff than me, and on average do it better than me. You rock! (Or alternatively i just suck, but in my more optimistic moods i prefer to think that you rock ;)

[coraa.livejournal.com]

You rollerblade, though! You go to Wumpskate and things like that! You play board games! You keep on top of video game news! I do none of those things.

I am a fast reader, it's true, and I'd say the two things that I do do well are writing and cooking. Also, I play very few games. (I mostly watch Pav do it.)