Sorry for abandoning the Op for a while. Work has been crazy.
Thanks for all the ideas. I’ll probably go the jerk route. I love that! On our honeymoon in Grand Cayman my wife and I ate at a place called Chicken Chicken several times in one week. Damn that was good stuff! Theirs was done on a rotisserie.
This looks really good. My attempts at jerk chicken do not remind me of the ambrosia I enjoyed in Jamaica. Jerk shrimp is also amazing.
Canada has plentiful Walkerswood and bonnets. A major grocery sells an excellent jerk sauce. Sadly, the “timid” milder, coarser version they used to sell is no more. Guessing it was still way too spicy for the average “salt and pepper” Canuck palate.
And yet you still came in to the thread.
I was thinking a cool YouTube video where it rides a tiny little motorcycle. Didn’t know it was gonna be a dead zombie chicken.
Why, I can make a hat or a brooch or a pterodactyl…
Fwiw, i buy unbrined, pastured chicken all the time. I usually roast it. I also grill it. It is a bit tougher than supermarket chicken, due to walking around more during its life, but it’s also more flavorful. Unless your standard for good meat is “tender” you can just cook it however you usually cook chicken, and enjoy the flavor.
Marinade in jerk, or a good spicy ras-al-hanout, then coat and deep fry.
Try BEDESSEE if you can find it. They have both hot and mild. I use the el cheapo No Name pink lemonade as a liquid, it’s pretty shoddy as a drink, but works amazingly well with jerk. I highly recommend it.
Zombie chicken update!
I went with the Jerk Chicken. Used the Alton Brown method but found Walkerswood marinade instead of making it myself. Turns out the mild is very hot! Way to hot for my child. Found a pick of how it turned out but can’t figure out how to embed an image (says I can’t upload into a post).
I should also mention that it was excellent and I ate jerk chicken for 3 days!
I haven’t tried the mild but the Hot & Spicy Walkerswood is truly hot & spicy. It’s a breath of fresh air among a bunch of wimpy ‘hot’ consumer products that don’t deliver the heat. It tears (disambiguation: causes secretions from my tear ducts) my eyes when eating and while cooking. for sure, a quality product.
Yes. The Walkerswood mild is, as you’ve found out, not the American definition of mild. It’s got a good kick and would pass for most products’ spicy line. I often make my own jerk paste that is a good bit hotter than Walkerswood’s hot & spicy, but their hot & spicy, as @jnglmassiv notes, is satisfyingly fiery.