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[cinemaocd]

Just made the best grilled chicken of my bbq life and it was so damn easy

I have to share

The chicken: bone-in skin on thighs

The prep: open package, place the chicken on a plate and salt on both sides with kosher salt in an even layer.

The marinade: 3 Tablespoons of ranch dressing and a 1/2 cup of buttermilk, or mixture of yogurt and milk.

Place the thighs in a ziplock with marinade and let it sit while you set the grill up. You can marinate longer, or even overnight for improved texture/flavor, but mine only went about 90 minutes before I cooked them and they were fantastic.

Set up the grill half with coals, half with a water bath. Add a few chunks of smoking quality hardwood on top of your coals. You can use a gas grill for this but you won't get the smokey flavor which is a big part of this. If you have a gas grill, you may want to baste the chicken with a bbq sauce near the end of cooking to enhance flavor. You need at least a full size Weber for this, you can't do this on a smokey joe. When your temperature hits 350, close your dampers (I used 1/4 open on top and bottom on my weber) and keep the temp as close to 350 as possible.

Put the chicken on the cool side of the grill, with the skin facing up. Shut the lid and let cook for 45 minutes without opening the lid. Use your vents to keep your heat low and steady. After 45 minutes rearrange the chicken thighs so that they cook evenly. Check and add charcoal if it is depleted, but if you kept your temp under control, it should be fine. No need to add smoking wood, they should be pretty well smoked by this point. Put the lid back on and cook another 45 minutes. The next time you open up, test the thighs. They need to get to at least 165, but they can go a lot higher without drying out.

Open your vents to stoke up the hot side of the grill, adding more charcoal if needed. Keeping the lid on the grill will help it heat faster. When the temperature gets up over 400 put the thighs skin side down on the hot side. As the fat renders out of the skin you will get flare ups. That's fine, you want some of that. Don't let them catch fire and you'll be fine. Use tongs to get the charring on all sides of the meat. This is the point to add some bbq sauce to your thighs if you want. Cook for five-ten more minutes with the meat on the cool side of the grill and the lid on to set the sauce.

When the thighs are at the doneness you prefer (I personally like well done 180F+ on chicken thighs), remove them to rest a few minutes.

These grilled chicken thighs are great as is hot, or cold in picnic lunch, cut up in a salad, shredded for tacos, put in a wrap etc. Serve with BBQ sauce on the side.

[v10l3tz-thmblr]

Espilver nation, I command thee to rise. For I have finally animated something after months of not touching my animation app.

I dont have the original audio from tik tok but I found the full version! It's here enjoy !! 💜

[i-can-not-art]

A silly based off @dieselpvnk’s post

I’m so normal about rain world ships…….

[digoload]

Yesterday they agreed to help Niki and Empanada with their bakery, and cheesecake was mentioned! So here they are temporarily repurposing the warehouse to try out cheesecake recipes <3

Spiritual successor of this post I made back in April of Roier!

them <3

[sabine-wrenn]

Rangi angrily making Kyoshi noodles right after storming out of the room telling her she's "done with her"

[anarchopuppy]

"Why did Tears of the Kingdom have a development cycle just as long as Breath of the Wild's even though it reused so many assets?" is a question that I think fundamentally misunderstands how modern game design works

It assumes that the team does something like all sit down, develop the physics engine, then they can move on to the overworld map, then they can move on to making the cutscenes, etc. and when you think about that for just a second it becomes obviously absurd. Developing a physics engine, writing dialogue, creating textures, designing puzzles, and so on are all different disciplines that different specialists work on in parallel and in cooperation

What probably actually happened is a lot of the artists, engine devs, and so on put a lot less time into the project, before/while working on a bunch of different projects at Nintendo (quite possibly including the engine and art for the next Zelda game), and they also probably didn't need to get Monolith Soft to help design the overworld. Meanwhile, the puzzle designers, writers, and a lot of the rest of the team have to do just as much work as they did for Breath of the Wild (or more!), and so it's not that surprising that it took just as long

(Disclaimer that I don't know for certain that this is how it happened internally at Nintendo, and short of interviewing the devs I don't think there's any way to find out. The credits won't help because close to all of the people who moved on to other teams either worked on TotK for part of the development and/or had their work ported over from BotW. This is just my understanding of how modern AAA game development works)

[alexjcrowley]

Close enough welcome back Kelly McGillies from Top Gun (1986)

[duchess-of-oldtown]

Meera: Gods, I sure hope Jojen is ok

Bran: *eye deep in mysterious paste that lowkey sort of tastes of blood*

[axenyan]

"I met a new friend! Her name is Annette. Apparently she likes drawing too, just like me. Maybe we should do a drawing session together someday? I think that would be fun! (⁠人⁠*⁠´⁠∀⁠｀⁠)⁠｡⁠*ﾟ⁠+"

Annette belongs to @itskamisato 🥰 thank u again for drawing my doter,,,, 💞

[cconfusedkat]

IVE BEEN DOING SOME RETHINKING... Ill come back and edit this post with other thoughts I may have but,, I decided to change up my own refs a bit so theyd feel a little slightly bit unique instead of all the same red robes,, Im not too sure about changing heket or leshy yet but—why not yknow !!! :-]

[gargelyfloof118]

I got 20 1/2 pints of crushed tomatoes processed today!

[nguyenfinity]

She’d stay with them while visiting I think

Bonus:

[zalammander-paradise]

critters...

[noivern]

borek

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

From a previous poll it has been decided that Lan Wangji can cook, but the real question is....Can He Grill?

[unganseylike]

the “im hanging on by a thread” “im telling you you gotta try apricot jam that thread will turn into a rope” is me with miso paste. my friend casually mentioned one day that her go-to easy vegetarian meal was miso soup and i was like making miso soup isnt easy (or vegetarian) you got to deal with the dashi and its a whole thing. she said well i mean i just use the miso and some tofu. truly a life changing interaction. now whenever i am sad and need easy hearty meal i make a bare bones miso soup…this has perhaps been a pillar holding me up this year