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Uncle Jackie’s Grilled Chicken

Uncle Jackie’s Grilled Chicken

Best attempted

  • In the Outer Banks
  • Post- tennis match, beach day, or anything that will leave you famished and cranky
  • When you have an entire day at your disposal

Ingredients

  • Chicken
  • Coals
  • Lighter fluid*

*exact recipe works better if you forget lighter fluid

Instructions

  • Light coals.
  • Wait 7 hours.
  • Order pizza.

A note from Uncle Jackie: You’ll probably notice that none of my recipes are in this cookbook.

Let me explain. I was as talented a chef as anyone in the family. But, a harrowing experience cooking lunch for the entire family on a vacation in Duck, N.C. shattered my nerves so bad that I can hardly enter a kitchen—unless of course a buffet line is forming.