Stout Jerk Chicken
Jackie Dodd-Mallory
(Senior Editor)
Literary Grief. This is the term I use for the moment you finish a great book and realize that it’s gone. This sort of anchor to those free moments in your life is now spent and the characters that ran behind your consciousness during the busy moments of your day, beckoning you back to the pages have run their course. You miss having more left to discover, but all mysteries have been unearthed and the plot has crescendoed. Most recently for me, that has been Blood, Bones and Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton.
Inspired writing and an intriguing story peppered with mentions of thought-provoking recipes that I couldn’t help but mark for later reference.
One of those recipes was a reference to a Jerk marinade that Gabrielle still makes on a regular basis. Her only notes about it were just that it contained Stout, Scotch Bonnet Peppers, and Honey as well as the fact that the recipe’s ingredients totaled an upwards of 25.
The Stout Jerk marinade that I have created falls very short of the 25 ingredient threshold, but the inspiration to use stout, scotch bonnet and honey is from the above book. As fascinated as I am with Gabrielle, and grateful that I was able to eat at Prune years ago, I would bet all of my recipes on the hunch that she may have less than favorable opinions about lowly Food Bloggers.
After all, I’ve never slept on a pile of chefs coats between 12-hour shifts. I’ve never scraped mold out of a walk in. I’ve never reached calloused fingers into a deep fryer or worked one handed with a blood-soaked bandage covered with a finger cot slowing my progress. I worked as a waitress in the front of the house, but I always knew my place. I begged to be allowed do deep prep when we were slow, took the fall for wasted produce when the owner would hassle the over-worked line cooks, and made sure the cooks "water" cups were full when we were slammed. But I know my place even now, in the world of food and I am still, in so many ways, "front of the house" hoping one day to be in the kitchen doing more than just deep prep.
Here is a jerk marinade, inspired by Blood Bones & Butter and using Stout Beer for its flavor and its meat tenderizing properties.
Wanna see the updated grilled version? Check it out here
Stout Jerk Chicken
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brandi / branappetit July 13, 2012 um 12:50 pm
i know the feeling. i get that with almost every book i read, which is one reason I re-read books ALL the time. I try to get that feeling back.
nick and i make jerk chicken and pork all the time, but i’ve never added beer to ours! next time, i will be.
hubs
Angie@Angie’s Recipes July 13, 2012 um 1:25 pm
These stout jerky chicken look fingerlickingly GOOD!
Ali @ Gimme Some Oven July 13, 2012 um 2:18 pm
Ooooh – I adore jerk chicken. Adding stout sounds fabulous!
Jeremiah July 16, 2012 um 3:13 pm
Nice. I did something similar several months back using a local robust porter and pork rib chops. Great stuff! Keep up the excellent work and
photography.
Carrie @ Bakeaholic Mama July 16, 2012 um 11:18 pm
Literary Grief… I like this term and know the feeling! As for your chicken…. oh my word. I haven’t had jerk chicken since I was in Jamaica. I really should try to make it at home!
maggie may July 18, 2012 um 8:00 pm
I loved this recipe so much! The perfect notes of heat and spice and sweetness. Thank you!
gingerb July 20, 2012 um 7:14 pm
I had never made 'jerk' anything before. This was amazing! Don’t be scared by the 4 habaneros. They were perfect.
Mango, black bean and avocado salad was the perfect compliment.
I also loved Blood, Bones and Butter.
Jackie July 20, 2012 um 7:16 pm
That’s so great! And a mango, black bean and avocado salad sounds perfect 🙂
Paige July 28, 2012 um 1:06 pm
Wow, I was looking for a main dish for our weekly movie party tomorrow to go with beer mac 'n cheese, and as fate would have it I already had all the ingredients for this other than the chinese five spice! Using all drumsticks, and already have it marinating int he fridge. Looking forward to it! I’m officially a regular here!
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