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Yesterday I was eating some Publix Mojo Chicken*, that shit is good kid. I eat it often at lunch. Rotisserie chicken is not the same at every place. K Roger makes a greasy, but essence filled rotisserie chicken. Publix serves a pricier crisper variety of chicken. Their taste is more subtle, and thorough, with crisper exterior and less fat. Publix makes a better chicken. The Mojo and all their other varieties of chicken are a cheap lunch route. I typically have their chicken with some doctored up French style green beans and I’m a happy camper.

Mojo can easily be given credit as being the chicken that makes people want to eat the skin again. Unfortunately, eating the skin on your chicken (roasted or other wise), doubles the calories of your meal. Can you imagine half a chicken being 400 calories, and the skin adding somewhere between 150-300 more, cause It’s about like that. Anyway, food for thought eh. I don’t do the skin anymore, except on the wing. The wing is basically skin anyway. and I love that little guy.

I’ve been using the calorie counter to judge my caloric intake on shit lately. Like yesterday, I wanted to eat the skin on my chicken. I wondered why I stopped eating the skin, I knew it was “bad” for you, but little Ms Rachel Ray sure does take pleasure whenever we’re at lunch and I give up that crispy Mojo skin. As a matter of fact, my little buddy has turned into quite the decadent foodie, but I’m happy cause she drinks a little bit now, and she’s more belligerent about food being good, still prefers organic, but in her words “Healthy' Shit better taste good.”, talk healthy and she immediately asked you if it’s good, cause if it’s not, she aint gonna eat it. Right way to live girlfriend. And here we are, I don’t eat the skin on my chicken, but my friend does.

*Below is a good basting recipe. It’s a DIY Mojo Chicken for the grill or oven rack, and it’s also the basics for how to make your own Mojo sauce, since some folks might be like “WTF is a Mojo sauce”-it’s Cuban eh-, oh yeah, my personal suggestion is that you add a little rosemary to this dish, it’ll kick it up a notch.

*DIY Mojo Chicken

-Ingredients

1/4 cup fresh cilantro

1 cup mojo marinade

2 teaspoons roasted garlic

3 pounds whole cut-up chicken

Few sprigs of Rosemary



Steps

1. Preheat grill.

2. Add your minced garlic, diced Cilantro, and some rough chopped rosemary to your prepared Mojo sauce

3. Add chicken to grill and brush on Mojo, close lid and grill for a bout 15 minutes, brush with the sauve every few minutes till the chicken is done.



Mojo Sauce 101

4 garlic cloves, minced

1 jalapeno, minced

1 large handful fresh cilantro leaves, finely chopped

Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper

2 limes, juiced

1 orange, juiced

2 tablespoons white vinegar

1/2 cup olive oil

make a paste of the garlic, jalapeno, cilantro, salt, and pepper. Place the paste in a bowl, and then add the lime juice, orange juice, vinegar, and oil. Shake well. Makes a marinade, basting sauce or table condiment.

Garlic Oil

And since we're tossing out technique, you can make your own infused Garlic oil, with fresh or fake garlic.

Take one cup of EVOO, and add either two tablespoons of fake garlic (not so much garlic salt), you know like the roasted garlic granuels or powder -use two table spoons-, or you can use real minced garlic (a tablespoon or more), and bring to a quick boil for about three minutes, then let it sit off the fire for an hour or so. Strain it with a coffee filter, should age like normal oil, there aren't any special storage instructions.

We (WTF is "we"') should start a cooking club. Who is interested in doing that' C-Rella' Rachel Ray' Bogo' Arch' The Joyster' T Dog'

Oh yeah, Note: Mojo is a citrus-based sauce associated with Cuban cuisine, but variations are found throughout South America and the Caribbean. Mojo can also include herbs, garlic, onions, salt, cumin, red pepper and olive oil. A mojo marinade is a thicker form, typically made with grapefruit and orange juices and vinegar. Goya is among makers of commercial mojo marinades.