BLUEBERRY BARBECUE CHICKEN

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This was in my email and I made this many years ago for a party with some teachers. It is very good. 


BLUEBERRY BARBECUE CHICKEN





Similar to a shrub—a fruit syrup punctuated by vinegar—this blueberry sauce makes a bracing drink when mixed with club soda or booze. It's also the first step in a fruity vinaigrette and is a perfect glaze on oven-baked chicken. Keep in mind this is not a marinade. Brush it on toward the end of cooking and let the chicken soak up more of the sauce before serving. The final soak is key.


Yield: Serves 3-4 With Extra Sauce

Time: 12 Hours


For the sauce

3 cups blueberries

2 cups apple cider vinegar, divided

2 cups granulated sugar

1⁄4 tsp. chile flakes

1 3-inch cinnamon stick

1 bay leaf


For the chicken


One 3-lb. chicken (ask your butcher to butterfly or spatchcock the bird by cutting out the backbone and sternum and flattening the bird)

3 tsp. kosher salt, divided

1 1⁄2 tsp. freshly ground black pepper


Instructions


Make the sauce: Put the blueberries and 2 tablespoons of the vinegar in a food processor. Pulse the berries just to break them up and get some juices flowing.

In a medium saucepan, combine the pulverized berries with the remaining vinegar, sugar, chile flakes, cinnamon stick, and bay leaf. Bring to a simmer over medium heat, reduce the heat to low, and then cover the pot. Cook for 1 hour, stirring occasionally.


Carefully transfer the hot sauce to a blender. Remove the knob from the top of the blender lid and cover with a dish towel to prevent an explosion. Blend the sauce to get it as smooth as possible, then pass it through a fine mesh strainer, directly back into the pan. Simmer the sauce over medium-low heat, stirring occasionally, until it has reduced by about one-third of its original volume (25–30 minutes). It should coat the back of a spoon and have the viscosity of maple syrup. Let the sauce rest, at least overnight, before using. Blue Q will keep for months, covered, in the refrigerator.


Make the chicken: Light your grill and heat it to roughly 350°. Thirty minutes before you plan to grill, bring the chicken to room temperature and season with 2 teaspoons of kosher salt and the black pepper.


Place chicken, skin side up, on the grill and close the lid. Cook, covered, for 20 minutes. Baste with blueberry sauce every 5 minutes for an additional 20 minutes, keeping the lid closed between basting activity. After a total of 40 minutes, flip chicken over to caramelize the skin, and baste the other side for 10 minutes more. Using a probe thermometer, check the internal temperature of the meaty part of a thigh. When it reaches 165°, remove chicken from the grill.


Off the grill, douse the chicken in 1⁄2 cup of blueberry sauce and let it rest for 10 minutes. Carve into 6 or 8 pieces and toss once more in another 1⁄2 cup sauce.

Serve the chicken warm or at room temperature.

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Have this with

Blueberry Lemon Vodka Fizz
With under five ingredients, this Blueberry Lemon Vodka Fizz is crisp, revitalizing, and fizzy — perfect for a hot
summer day!
Course Drinks
Prep Time 5 minutes
Servings 1
Author Killing Thyme
Ingredients
Ice
1.5 oz blueberry vodka
1-2 tsp freshly squeezed lemon juice
8-10 oz seltzer water or Club Soda
Optional Garnishes
Fresh or frozen blueberries
Fresh sprigs of mint
Lemon wedges or slices
Instructions
1. Fill your glass with ice — almost to the top! The colder this drink, the better.
2. Add the blueberry vodka and the freshly squeezed lemon juice.
3. Add the seltzer water or club soda, and give the drink a good stir with a stir stick or straw.
4. Garnish with blueberries, fresh mint, and lemon slices or wedges.
Notes
You can swap the blueberry vodka for raspberry vodka, and the lemon juice for lime juice to get a Raspberry
Lime Vodka Fizz!

or


Blueberry Vodka Lemonade
Total Time
25 mins
There's nothing quite like a glass of cold lemonade on a hot summer
day. Unless it's a glass of cold Blueberry Vodka Lemonade! This
summer cocktail is the perfect balance of tart and sweet and can also
easily be made into a blueberry lemonade mocktail.
Course: Drink
Cuisine: American
Keyword: blueberry lemonade, blueberry vodka, vodka lemonade
Servings: 1 cocktail
Author: Sues
Ingredients
Ice
2 oz. freshly squeezed lemon juice
3 oz. water
2 oz. blueberry simple syrup (recipe below)
1 1/2 oz. vodka
Blueberry Simple Syrup
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup water
1 cup blueberries
Instructions
1. In a shaker filled with ice, combine lemon juice, water, blueberry simple syrup, and vodka. Shake well.
2. Pour cocktail into two glasses filled with ice. Garnish with additional blueberries and a lemon wedge.
Blueberry Simple Syrup
1. Put sugar, water, and blueberries in a medium-size saucepan and bring mixture to a boil. Once boiling, lower
heat and let simmer for about 15 minutes, until the mixture thickens.
2. Strain the mixture into a bowl, being sure to press down on the berries to extract as much juice as possible.
Keep syrup in bowl or pour into a mason jar and place in fridge to cool completely before using.
Recipe Notes
Blueberry simple syrup recipe should make about 6 cocktails

[clarencebunsen]

Old memory: My father, his younger brother, my brother and I picking blueberries in a bog in northern Minnesota. Wild blueberries are smaller than the domestic ones but have a much more intense flavor. Walking in a bog is like walking on a giant sponge, you need to keep moving or your feet start to sink in.

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May 24, 2019 8:37:09 GMT -5 clarencebunsen said:

Old memory: My father, his younger brother, my brother and I picking blueberries in a bog in northern Minnesota. Wild blueberries are smaller than the domestic ones but have a much more intense flavor. Walking in a bog is like walking on a giant sponge, you need to keep moving or your feet start to sink in.

Ever go here: Rome Sand Plains Unique Area


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[clarencebunsen]

I have not been there. I will keep it in mind as a potential place to take my grandsons this summer. Of course the old guy will need to keep to the easier trails.

Another milestone today. I took my granddaughter to MVCC to take placement tests. She will still be in high school but wants to start taking evening classes at MV in the fall. She is in such a hurry to grow up. Her birthday is at the end of November so she is one of the youngest kids in her class. She won't be 16 until November but her other Grandpa is already teaching her to repair her "starter truck."

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CB she has an excellent idea to get started now at MVCC. I knew several who also did that one is a lawyer now with the DA office.

[Clipper]

That is usually reserved for exceptional students. She must be a very smart young lady with a serious focus on her future. I have niece that was taking college courses in her senior year at Notre Dame high school. It led to 4 yrs at LeMoyne, followed by Albany Law. She is now a lawyer for Honda Corporation in the DC area, married to another attorney, and living in Bethesda Maryland. It is refreshing to see youngsters with their eye on a bright future.

[Clipper]

PB, I will have to give this a try in the future. I have made something similar with blueberry or cherry pie filling, balsamic, and orange juice. I use orange juice to thin MANY of the bbq sauces that I make, simply because I don't cook with wine. I probably will stick with the pie filling though and eliminate the extra sugar.

My kids used to pick wild blueberries when we lived in Point Rock, NY. The land around us was full of the bushes. We called them huckle berries. They made excellent muffins and the wife used to put them in a yellow cake mix also with a cinnamon crumb topping. Thank goodness for three boys to pick them. It took forever to fill their one pound coffee cans.

[clarencebunsen]

Like many kids her age, Gabby sees a world of possibilities open to her and has changed what she wants to do several times. Of late she has spoken most often of becoming an RN. Since both her Mom and her Grandma are RNs she has good role models.

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Walmart sell packaged frozen wild blueberries and they are excellent. The company doesn't add any extra sugar so that makes buying them even more appealing. At least to me.

[Clipper]

I will have to try them PB. Other than strawberries we don't buy or use berries much, other than for pie. Kathy makes a lot of things from scratch but cooking fresh berries to make a glaze for chicken would not be of much interest to her. I may try the frozen blueberries in my oatmeal or muffins though.

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Clipper here is a photo"

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Besides having them with yogurt I also like a half cup with a dab of sour cream and plain yogurt mixture on top. Yummy..........

[Clipper]

Thanks PB. I will see if they are available at Krogers. As you know I am not a Walmart fan, haha. My neighbor was going there the other day so I had him pick up a new wireless mouse for me. I just don't like that store. There is darned sure a lot of crime around Walmart stores. Police agencies in this area are saying that it beginning to strain their manpower and personnel levels. I guess the thieves like the place well enough.

wcyb.com/news/local/walmart-crime-puts-a-strain-on-local-police-departments

[clarencebunsen]

If you go to the Wyman's website they have a store locator function. The closest to me is Hannaford which makes sense. Also on the list are Price Chopper and Target.