I'm not surprised you didn't reply...

I think he wanted to shw you HIS dark meat... ;)

-Chuck

You kept that just so you could look at it over and over again, didn't you? :P

OH .... MY .... LORD!

That is just frightening. Who in the Hayl thinks that this message is attractive?!?!? Scary!

It basically says... RUN! Run away from me as FAST as you can!

I don't know what I'd be madder about, the creepy metaphor or the fact that I'd have "Eight Piece Box" stuck on loop in my head for like a week after.

Mmmmm... smoked chicken.

Rachel, I have recently learned that Applewood is the absolute best for smoking meat. When they had Applewood smoked offerings at the Buffet restaurant I went to a few weeks ago, I tried to eat the entire stock. Just thought I would pass that on...

Oh, and that guy probably thought he was being clever, so he was more than likely just stupid rather than scary.

Labrat! Are we going crazy over at E!3, or what?

YES! Finally TypeKey stopped being a total tool and calling me a name I haven't even used in almost 2 years. You were, indeed, gonna have to thrash it for me. But it's cool now.

Anyway, I don't like chicken, but Frank loves it and it's cheap, so I make it a lot. I perrrferr thighs and legs myself (especially thighs), but Frank likes breasts and always asks "Is this done?" when I make thighs (I guess because it's too juicy and tasty), so again, I make those a lot. In a skillet using olive oil and heavy cream, I can make the breasts not so dry.

All your stories about online dating make me almost wish I'd done that after my divorce. But there was no time. I entered that contest a month before my divorce was final.

Wayne- sure are. I'm sitting here going "Um uh uhhhhh...." My day needs to be less crazy so I can concentrate enough to be productive!

SarahK- I have an awesome recipe for chicken breasts involving heavy cream, cheese, spinach, and lots of garlic. It totally blows away the whole "boneless, skinless, tasteless" problem.

Skillet Chicken Florentine

Olive oil
2-3 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
1 thawed package of frozen, chopped spinach (or ten ounces fresh)
2 cloves garlic, crushed (minimum, original recipe called for 2- we like it with more, but we think there is no such thing as too much garlic)
1/2 cup heavy cream
1/2 cup grated Parmesan (original recipe called for 1/4 cup of both, but again, we like it with more)

Warm a little olive oil in a heavy skillet and brown the breasts over medium. Remove the chicken.
Add a few more tablespoons of olive oil, the spinach and garlic, and stir for a few minutes. Then add the cream and cheese, and get the mix spread evenly over the skillet. Put the chicken on top, cover the skillet, and let everything simmer on low for about fifteen minutes. Serve with the spinach mix over the chicken. I like to have some pita bread or crackers around to eat the excess spinach mix on.

mmm chicken. Had a farm-raised chicken for dinner last night, roasted whole, from a nearby Hutterite colony. Darkmeat guy may, however, be a turkey. Speaking of which ever had a deep-fried turkey? mmmMMMmmm

It has been taught by grammar books that ending a sentence with 'from' is improper; however, because of the changing nature of language some linguists will argue it is only natural and perfectly fine to end a sentence with a dangling preposition. I think it is up to the individual or to the editor in charge of the publication. Seeing as how you are writing for a blog, I think its perfectly fine:)

A couple of years ago, I bought one of those Ronco rotisseries off eBay. It seems to have solved the problem of white meat being too dry, because it revolves around when spitted and in effect bastes itself. Awesome.

The guy was a jerk. He was probably just trying to be amusing but he apparently doesn't have too much ept but a lot of inept.

Coleslaw and now chicken? What is this FoodTV.com?

OK, that's me being totally inept with the jokes. Although Coleslaw and chicken are two of my favorite foods and they go well together.

Personally I like a creamy garlic coleslaw(sorry but I absolutely don't allow celery anything in my coleslaw) and chicken wings. Just the right ratio of crunchy skin to meat.

Forgot to mention... oh, yeah, that guy did sound like a jerk... but he prolly thought he was just being friendly.

Rachel, your chicken recipe sounds good. I'm gonna try it.

Would you please post your coleslaw recipe (minus the fingertip and blood, that is)? I'd like to try it, particularly if it's not the overly sweet kind of coleslaw. I happen to like celery seed. Thanks.

Rachel: Don't feel too bad about not responding to ads from guys you're not interested in. Silence is usually a pretty good indicator of your intentions. At least it doesn't generate any false hopes.
My experience has been, that any polite response is likely to generate a stream of "You don't know what you're missing out on" emails.
Best not to prolong the encounter....

YUM!!!! Labrat I am gonna try that recipe. SarahK, I want your recipe too!

PBmaltzman (Pam right?) - I will definitely post my coleslaw recipe, today probably. I think I'll make a whole "FOOD" category! I also make a killer potato salad - which again involves celery seed. Good stuff, good stuff. Anyway I love the food advice from all of you. Thank you! I need to get my own smoker, that's one of the things I surrended in the divorce. Sigh.

As for the guy in the ad - I didn't even mention in the post but he sent me TWO MORE messages after the first two!!! Give up, dude!! Sheesh.

Obviously, nobody connected to this post, the underlying story, or the comment thread has seen Grindhouse. If you had, you would have written -- somewhere -- "White meat and dark meat. All will be carved".

Most Rachel Lucasian line from Grindhouse (from a woman explaining why she carries a gun instead of just pepper spray):
Uh, mutha***** tryin to rape me, I don't want to give him a skin rash. I wanna shut that ***** down!

Hi, Rachel (Yes, I'm Pam):

Thanks in advance for posting your coleslaw recipe and any other recipe you can think of. The tater salad sounds good, but that might be a no-no for me because I'm definitely diabetic now.

A separate category for food sounds great!

Pam

Hi, Rachel & Ya'll.

I only do two chicken things that I would brag about. My chicken soup (which I can't give the recipe for because I always make it a little different, depending on what's in the frig/pantry). For that I use thighs.
And hot wings. My kids love 'em but what a PITA.
As a corollary to darkmeat dude, what if I said, "Have you considered the white meat? It's more dry and bony."

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