What's cookin' boys?

[RCW]

Chicken & sweet potato’s for dinner tonight …

First time in my new toaster oven air fryer in my semi-truck!

I got 1.75 Lbs of boneless skinless chicken thighs for $2.98 Lb on sale today, the Kinder's Gold Label was on sale for the same price as the regular stuff, so I decided to give it a try, I liked the idea of the squirt bottle … I cut them up into strips/chunks, put half of them in a bag and tucked them into the fridge for tomorrow …

Then coated the others in extra virgin olive oil, sprinkled salt, pepper, garlic powder, oregano on them, then tossed them in a bag with just plain flour …

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I air fried them for 22 minutes, but the 1st 5 minutes was in pre-heat mode, as it was heating up to 450° …

While they were cooking I sliced up a sweet potato, covered in olive oil, a little salt & pepper and a dash of oregano, I put them in for 15 minutes after the chicken was done, and while I ate the 1st course of chicken …

The chicken was great, moist and tasty, the BBQ sauce also made it even more flavorful, but I'll probably skip the flour tomorrow, and will double stack the chicken above the sweet potatoes, as I have two racks, and then the chicken fat can drip down on the sweet potatoes … !

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I nominate @Shawn T. W as the best cook in a pinch!

He’s making great stuff in a tractor cab.

I couldn’t do that…..

Have a lot of respect for drivers like Shawn, and what they have to do for their jobs on a daily basis.

My hat’s off!!

 

[Shawn T. W]

Worst part is the clean up!

 

[tghs]

great on the road cooking!!! had a travel job for about 3 years, driving cross-country and then two weeks at the site.. lots of road, lots of motels.. carried a little weber smokey-joe to make some evenings better!!! on one trip we got caught by an ice storm in Alabama,, had rooms reserved and got in just ahead of the ice.. dropped the big trailer and hit the stores,, bought more than enough food for 3 days as we knew everything would be shut down,, should have bought alot more as we could have sold grilled steak dinners in the motel parking lot!!! big ole pot of beef stew simmering away this morning..

 

[tghs]

todays efforts.. beef stew with toasty garlic/butter bread!!! happy contractors!!!

 

[Shawn T. W]

I decided to marinate the chicken this afternoon while waiting for a load tomorrow ...

Before turning on the "oven" I tried to see how stacking the basket's would work, it won't ... The extra "ridges" in the sides are more to help hold the tray/basket in place so when sliding out, it doesn't tip, and the basket won't stay on top of it, so it will only hold 2 trays like advertised! so I did 2 "courses" again tonight ... The BBQ sauce browned up, and dropped, glad I had a pan underneath in the 2nd slot, as the "drip pan" is under the burner, and I'd rather not clean BBQ sauce off that!

Fortunately the "pan" has a ceramic non-stick coating so it's not too hard to clean, but the "basket" takes a bit of scrubbing!

Overall a much better dinner than I'd get here at the One9 truck stop I'm at with an Arby's ...

I don't plan on using it a lot for cooking meals, mostly bought to bake bread in ... But I had time yesterday and the short 1/3 mile walk to the grocery store was needed anyways as I needed more fruit and milk ... since my bread maker died 2 weeks after the warranty ran out, plastic gears that mix/knead the dough gave out ... While more work on my part, I can do that manually myself ... So this is working out, just need more planing on timing my stops to do it.