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It has been too difficult to find the time to balance blogging with my other extracurricular activities. This will be the last post of the blog. Thanks for reading!  

Chicken Breast w/ Beans, Spinach, and Wild Mushrooms + assorted pickles

Market of Choice was selling split breasts for 1.30ishlb, so I snapped up a couple of packages. I am just going to take off the bones and use them for stock. So tonight, I took off the portion of the carcass clinging to the breast, and then stuck the bones in a bag and then into the freezer for future stock making. I cut off the larger chunks of fat still clinging to the bones and breast itself, then diced the fat up and rendered it in the skillet. Meanwhile- I rubbed the chicken down with salt, thyme, hungarian smoked paprika, and pepper. 

One the fat rendered I flipped the burner up to high, waited till the fat was near smoking, and stuck the breast in skin side down. I wanted to just get some color on the skin before I flipped the breast over and seared the opposite side. Then into a 325 oven. It took about 20 minutes- with me rotating the breast in the pan every 10 minutes. 

Just after the first flip. Really happy with the color of the skin. When finished, I sat the breast atop a mix of cannellini beans, spinach, and mix of wild mushrooms, with garlic, thyme, and a little rosemary.

Finished off with some Asian style pickles and scallions.