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One-Pan Dinner: Roasted Chicken & Vegetables

July 21, 2016 by 918 Plate 2 Comments

This one-pan roasted chicken cooks the main dish and the vegetables at the same time, for an easy dinner and minimal clean-up!

After preparing this gorgeous chicken a few weeks ago for Farmer Chris, I got in my brain that I wanted to refine my whole chicken cooking skills! While the shoot made for a gorgeous bird (if I do say so myself), it didn’t quite have the flavor profile I was looking for – so I tried again. The one-pan roasted chicken method is tried and true, I read about it on theKitchn – placing the chicken on a bed of vegetables in cast-iron to reap the benefits of chicken juice on your vegetables!…

Grilled Shrimp “Boil”

June 16, 2016 by 918 Plate 4 Comments

This is like your favorite shrimp boil, but you don’t have to heat up your stove – it’s grilling season!

One of my favorite Greek events in college was PIKE’s shrimp boil. I guess mainly because it’s a super southern thing, and I’d never really heard of it before coming to college and so it was cool and new. And also…I love shrimp. The only part that I didn’t love about it was that over-boiled corn gets shrively and it’s not quite as good as it could be. So I got to thinking – there’s not many things better in life than grilled corn. Why don’t I just grill the whole thing? Thus, the grilled shrimp boil was born.

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