This recipe is to honor those wild and crazy guys, Emperor Hadrian and his sexy lover, Antinous, known as the Gay God. Well why not? Not much you can say about this simple way of fixing chicken thighs. It's easy, there is a quick clean-up and it tastes great!
Chicken thighs, brushed with butter and seasoned, then roasted in a hot oven to keep them juicy. Fit for an Emperor! No skills required! Quick, peel me a grape!
Ingredients:
6 bone-in chicken thighs with skin (approx. 5-6 ounces each)
1 Tbs Grill Mates maple seasoning
salt and pepper to taste
2 Tbs melted butter
Instructions
Chicken always tastes better when you marinade it in buttermilk. Don't have any on hand? Don't worry, make it fresh with 1 cup of milk to 2 Tbs white vinegar. Let that sit for 5 mins and instant buttermilk!
Let the acids do their work in freshening the chicken flesh for at least 1 hour, but no more than 4 hours. You don't want the meat to start disintegrating. When ready, rinse each piece well and pat dry with paper towels.
Preheat oven to 425°F. Line a pan with foil and place a baking rack on top.
Melt the butter and brush on each piece, then sprinkle with seasonings, salt & pepper.
Place chicken (skin side up) on the rack and bake 35-40 minutes or until chicken reaches 165°F. Dark meat chicken can go up to 180 degrees if you wish, just don't do that with white meat.
Keep in mind that boneless skinless chicken thighs will require about 10 minutes less time.
Chicken Thighs at 350°F – 50-55 minutes
Chicken Thighs at 375°F – 45-50 minutes
Chicken Thighs at 400°F – 40-45 minutes
Chicken Thighs at 425°F – 35-40 minutes
Serving this with a side of au gratin potatoes and some sugar snap peas since they will roast in the save oven for right about the same time!
Let chicken rest for at least 5 mins after removing from oven.
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What an honor to serve this to my Master Indy.
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Hadrian and Antinous
Caesar Traianus Hadrianus was Roman emperor from 117 to 138. He was born in the year 76. His father was of senatorial rank and was a first cousin of Emperor Trajan. He married Trajan's grand-niece Vibia Sabina early in his career, before Trajan became emperor and possibly at the behest of Trajan's wife. When Trajan died, his widow claimed that he had nominated Hadrian as emperor immediately before his death.
Rome's military and Senate approved Hadrian's succession. He earned disapproval among the elite by abandoning Trajan's policies of territorial gains. Hadrian preferred to invest in the development of stable, defensible borders and the unification of the empire's disparate peoples. He is best known for building Hadrian's Wall, which marked the northern limit of Britannia.
Hadrian energetically pursued his own Imperial ideals and personal interests. He visited almost every province of the Empire, accompanied by an Imperial retinue of specialists and administrators. He encouraged military preparedness and discipline, and he fostered, designed, or personally subsidized various civil and religious institutions and building projects.
In Rome itself, he rebuilt the Pantheon and constructed the vast Temple of Venus and Roma. In Egypt, he rebuilt the Serapeum of Alexandria. His intense relationship with Greek youth Antinous is said to have been the highlight of his life.
It is possible that Hadrian visited Claudiopolis and met the beautiful Antinous, a young man of humble birth who became Hadrian's beloved. Literary sources say nothing of when or where they met. In 123 he would most likely have been a youth of 13 or 14. It is also possible that Antinous was sent to Rome to be trained as a page to serve the emperor and only gradually rose to the status of imperial favorite.
Hadrian traveled with Antinous through the area under Rome's influence.
Various traditions suggest his presence at particular locations, and allege his foundation of a city within Mysia, after a successful boar hunt. At about this time, plans to complete the Temple of Zeus in Cyzicus, begun by the kings of Pergamon, were put into practice. The temple received a colossal statue of Hadrian.
Pausanias describes temples built by Hadrian, and his statue – in heroic nudity – erected by its citizens in thanks to their "restorer". Antinous and Hadrian may have already been lovers at this time; Hadrian showed particular generosity to Mantinea, which shared ancient, mythic, politically useful links with Antinous' home at Bithynia.
He restored Mantinea's Temple of Poseidon Hippios, and according to Pausanias, restored the city's original, classical name. Hadrian also rebuilt the ancient shrines of Abae and Megara, and the Heraion of Argos.
Hadrian arrived in Egypt before the Egyptian New Year 130. He opened his stay in Egypt by restoring Pompey the Great's tomb, offering sacrifice to him as a hero and composing an epigraph for the tomb. Pompey was universally acknowledged as responsible for establishing Rome's power in the east, this restoration was probably linked to a need to reaffirm Roman Eastern governing, following social unrest there during Trajan's late reign. Hadrian and Antinous held a lion hunt in the Libyan desert; a poem on the subject by the Greek Pankrates is the earliest evidence that they traveled together.
While Hadrian and his entourage were sailing on the Nile, Antinous drowned. The exact circumstances surrounding his death are unknown, and accident, suicide, murder and religious sacrifice have all been postulated. Historia Augusta offers the following account:
During a journey on the Nile he lost Antinous, his favorite, and for this youth he wept like a woman. Concerning this incident there are varying rumors; for some claim that he had devoted himself to death for Hadrian. But however this may be, the Greeks deified him at Hadrian's request, and declared that oracles were given through his agency, but these, it is commonly asserted, were composed by Hadrian himself.
Antinous, the Gay God
Hadrian founded the city of Antinoöpolis in Antinous' honor in 130.
Hadrian's last years were marred by chronic illness. His marriage to Vibia Sabina had been unhappy and childless; he adopted Antoninus Pius in 138 and nominated him as a successor. Hadrian died the same year at Baiae, and Antoninus had him deified, despite opposition from the Senate. Edward Gibbon includes him among the Empire's "Five Good Emperors", a "benevolent dictator"; Hadrian's own Senate found him remote and authoritarian. He has been described as enigmatic and contradictory, with a capacity for both great personal generosity and driven by insatiable curiosity, self-conceit, and ambition.
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