Taco rice and the fire alarm chicken

If you remember my previous post about Yakult + Grapefruit juice, I learned that from this dinner at Chester's. We made taco rice, roasted a chicken, and drank some of the nom nom concoction while watching Jiro dreams of sushi. Taco rice = brilliant idea. It never occurred to me that you could make yourself a version of a Chipotle bowl at home. I also think his version of taco meat seasoning is bullet-proof. SO good.

Taco meat seasoning:
1/4 tsp of ground cloves, ground cinnamon, ground cumin, and cayenne pepper.

Then, we also need to talk about that roast chicken. I named it the fire alarm chicken because we spent most of the time fanning smoke away from his apartment's fire alarms due to all the smoke in the room! Between the "Fire! FIre!" shouts emiting from the alarms, and our sore shoulders the day after, I'd have to say I have never worked so hard for a piece of chicken before. But, gosh darn it, that's some pretty beautiful leg, thigh, and breast meat if you ask me.

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