She's Got Legs

Chicken legs, that is.  Crispy, smoky, barbeque saucy legs.  Cooked over a wood fire.  Oh yeah, a wood fire.  Last summer Scott and I built a backyard fire pit, complete with cooking grate.  We cooked meals over the fire a couple times a week.  How relaxing to hang out in the backyard, by a fire, while cooking the evening meal.  It didn't take us long to figure out that not only was it relaxing, but some of the best food ever.  Chicken legs with a sprinkling of kosher salt and a turn of fresh ground pepper, wood grilled to perfection and finished in the last minutes with our favorite barbeque sauce.  Sometimes I make my own sauce, but not on Thursday nights and that's another blog post anyway.  Tonight is the maiden voyage for a summer of wood fired cooking, so stay tuned, because there will be more posts to come on this subject.  Afterall, when you've got legs, you gotta know how to cook 'em.