Adventures in Chicken 2 - Chicken Under a Brick! (And once again, I stink)

Um, I can't believe I haven't updated this since September. I am ashamed. Thing is, I have no excuse. None. Yes, I am working full-time now (yay!) but I've been cooking a lot and have no excuse to not take the 15-20 min every few days to update with my latest experimentations. Blarg. So I will try to catch up. HA! I don't want to leave anything out, since I am documenting things for myself as much as anyone else (It's not like anyone reads this anyway ;)). So without further ado.... Chicken under a brick. Yeah, I made this in July and it's almost January. Whatever :p

Anyhoo, I took a bone-in, skin-on chicken breast and rubbed it with a variety of things: salt, chili powder, chipotle powder, garlic powder, cumin, paprika, dried parsley... and let it 'marinate' for a while:




Then I fired up the cast iron skillet super hot and put the chicken in skin down and weighted it with a heavy skillet topped with a couple cans, for maybe 5-10 minutes on pretty hot heat (I'm not gonna eat the skin anyway, yes yes I know, heresy).



Flipped it over, weighted it down for another few minutes, and finished it for a few minutes in the oven. And voila! A little spicy, a little crispy, and VERY VERY moist. :)