The Cook Shack--Gab & Grub: A Kansas BBQ spit and Huli-Huli Chicken.....

Well Sir...this just proves the point agin that Necessity is the Mother of Invention....

...a good ol Cookshack Hat-Tip to John's Place fer sendin me this photo of a recent BBQ out in 105 degree Kansas....

...Now Sir...I was over visitin an Israeli website of a friend a mine, Greg at Hear O Israel when one a his regular commentors, Freedomnow, told me about a site he's been a visitin and the blogger, a guy named Guyk was my spittin twin (poor Guyk)...includin our humor and website type...

.....so's I paid a visit over at his place...Charming, Just Charming.. and sure enuff...he does look like this old Cookie and his humor...which I enjoyed by the by.... be a might like mine as well...so's..if'n y'all gets a chance...go pay him and Freedom Now a visit....

Now Sir...whatcha all been waitin fer...some Hawaiian Huli-Huli Chicken....mmmm mmm....

...Well Sir...I got this here recipe frum an old bubblehead (Submariner) friend a mine named Bothenook who's got a website called A Geezer's Corner....and Bothe...like this here old bubblehead, also just loves to cook...and eat our own cookin (we gotta make sure its fit fer our guests t'eat right?)....

Now Sir...accordin to Bothe...he had to beg.. borrow.. cry and steal t'get this here recipe...and I know that just frum lookin at it that I'm a gonna be servin it up at an event I got comin up that I'll be a cookin at....and by the by...this recipe' be a rated as a Five Star recipe'.....so's...y'all enjoy cookin and eatin it.....

huli huli chicken mmmmmmmm good
one of the many things i remember about being stationed in hawaii was the huli huli chicken road side fund raisers. i'd get in my car, drive around with the top down, and sniff the air until i found one. one what? one huge ass trailer bbq full of mesquite coals and rotiseries full of chicken. pure heaven. schools and civic organizations rent the trailer/bbq, buy all their chicken from the same company, who also makes the marinade, and volunteers man the fires. if you've lived in hawaii, you know what i'm talking about. if you haven't, you can try my huli huli chicken recipe for a taste of the islands. i went begging for this recipe, and it tastes exactly they way i remember the roadside stands. mmmmmmm.

couple of chickens cut up for the grill, or 3 or 4 lbs of chicken breasts.
1/2 cup of frozen pineapple concentrate (really, and using regular juice doesn't cut it)
1/2 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup catsup ( yeah, catsup. hawaii IS part of the U.S. ya know)
1 knob/finger of fresh ginger grated fine
couple of cloves of garlic, crushed. (to taste..my recipe card says 1, i use 3)
3 tablespoons of brown sugar

non food items:
· mesquite charcoal, or better yet, mesquite chunks soaked for at least an hour in water before use. toss them on when coals are ready. the hawaiians have a different name for mesquite, but that's the wood they use to bbq this stuff with. honest.
· bbq mop or a big paint brush. big. 4 inches or so big

mix all the ingredients up and marinade the chicken for at least 1/2 hour before cooking. i use ziploc bags. wonderful invention.
get the coals fired up. when you are ready to cook, toss on the mesquite chunks, and drop the chicken on the grill.
huli huli means turn over turn over (really). so here's how you cook this gem. once the chicken is on the grill, you mop it with the marinade, let it sit 5 minutes, then turn it over, and mop again. continue until the chicken is done, or you run out of marinade. if you run out of marinade first, keep turning the chicken every 5 minutes until done, or the brown sugar will burn.

this stuff is killer.

you can also do this in an electric rotiserie. every 10 minutes or so, baste the